Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Russia Could Cut Off Gas To Ukraine By ‘End Of Week’
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia could cut off supplies to neighboring Ukraine by the end of the week if it does not get further payments from the country, a spokesman for the gas company Gazprom said Thursday. Sergei Kupriyanov said in televised remarks that “if no new funds are received from Kiev, then naturally we cannot continue delivering gas to...
‘Germany Is Out of the Danger Business’
These words were spoken to me by the former U.S. Ambassador to Germany, John Kornblum, in an interview I had with him in his office in Pariser Platz in Berlin which he had set up following his ambassadorship. Ambassador Kornblum went on to say that Germany was in a state of “spiritual paralysis.” But this interview was some years...
Ukraine Begins Artillery Withdrawal, Recognizing Truce Is Holding
By Peter Graff KIEV, Feb 26 (Reuters) – Ukraine announced on Thursday that it would begin withdrawing artillery from the front line with separatist rebels in the east, a move that amounts to recognition that a ceasefire meant to take effect on Feb. 15 is holding at last. The pro-Russian rebels have already been pulling back heavy weapons...
Ukraine Goes Its First Day In Weeks Without Troops Killed
By Natalia Zinets and Anton Zverev KIEV/MAKIYVKA, Ukraine, Feb 25 (Reuters) – A long-awaited truce took hold at last in east Ukraine on Wednesday, with the army reporting no combat fatalities for the first time in weeks, but the news did nothing to halt a currency collapse that forced the central bank to ban most trading. The Ukrainian...
Photos Of School Lunches From Around The World Will Make American Kids Want To Study Abroad
More than one-third of kids in America are obese or overweight. In 2013, the National School Lunch Program, a federally assisted meal program operating in public and nonprofit private schools, served 5.1 billion lunches, Bloomberg reports. The quality of these lunches must somehow correlate to the health of America’s youth, considering more...
Now is Not the Time to Give Up on Russia
LONDON–For a self-professed Christian who has long used the dangling cross he wears around his neck as a tool to define his public persona, it comes as little surprise that Russian President Vladimir Putin would make such a public showing out of his belief in original sin. But, it turns out that the version of original sin that Putin likes...
Hungary’s Green Minister
When I first met Zoltan Illes in 1990, he was 29 years old and in his first month as the youngest state secretary in modern Hungarian history, working in the ministry of environment. He granted me quite a long interview and was unusually frank not only about the environmental situation in the country but also about the challenges he faced in his...
Ukraine, the Theater, and Their Echoes
It has already been a year. It has been a year, almost to the day, since the revolution in Ukraine overthrew the corrupt, tyrannical, and, in its last days, murderous regime of Viktor Yanukovych. To mark the anniversary of that event, which I followed closely from its beginning, one to which I endeavored to contribute by coming twice to speak in...
On the Other Side of the Hill
‘The other side of the hill’ is used in military thinking to guess the enemy’s intentions, his tactical dispositions, and strategic designs. Recently a British report informed the world that the West had been sleeping while Russia and President Putin built up a threatening military arsenal harboring a grand strategic design to...
Russia-Iran Rapprochement: A Convenient Partnership or a Desperate Move?
In light of the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East: civil war in Syria, ISIS, the Charlie Hebdo attack, the death of Saudi King Abdullah and the anarchy in Yemen, what is one to make out of the potential agreement in which Russia will provide Iran with S-300 air defense missile system? The answer is one of great concern and alarm. This agreement...
