Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Russian Oligarch’s Balkan-Style Gambit in Ukraine
On July 25, the London Financial Times published a lengthy and fascinating report dealing with the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Courtney Weaver, a Moscow staffer for the newspaper, described how Konstantin V. Malofeev, a Russian Orthodox Christian billionaire little known in the West, traveled to Sevastopol, on the southwest coast of the Crimean...
Pope Francis Begs For An End To War On 100th Anniversary Of WWI
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is marking the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I with an impassioned plea for people to “not repeat the mistakes of the past,” urging them to embrace dialogue to overcome conflicts. Francis cited current warfare between Israelis and Palestinians, as well as in Iraq and in Ukraine....
Why Conspiracy Theories Take Hold in Russia
All it takes is an hour or two of Russian state television to learn that someone is plotting against Russia. Watch for a few more hours, and you’ll find that everyone is plotting against Russia. Watch for a few more days, and the truth comes out: Russia is plotting against Russia. Thanks to the increasingly baroque explanations of...
U.S. Evacuation in Libya Shows Ill Effects of American Internventionism
The American foreign policy elite should learn something from the recent humiliating evacuation of the U.S. embassy in Tripoli, Libya–amid the chaos of tribal civil war in that country–but probably won’t. Since World War II, this bipartisan elite has thumbed its nose at the traditional U.S. foreign policy of strategic...
Heavy Fighting Turns Back International Police From MH17 Crash Site
SHAKHTARSK, Ukraine (AP) — Heavy fighting raged Monday around the Malaysia Airlines debris field, once again preventing an international police team charged with securing the site from even getting there. Government troops have stepped up their push to win back territory from pro-Russian separatists in fighting that the United Nations said...
U.S. Releases Satellite Images To Back Up Claims Russia Fired Rockets Into Ukraine
DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Stepping up pressure on Moscow, the U.S. on Sunday released satellite images it says show that rockets have been fired from Russia into neighboring eastern Ukraine and that heavy artillery for separatists has crossed the border. The images, which came from the U.S. Director of National...
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs: My Fear Is That Putin Is Lighting A Fire He Cannot Control
In a sign of just how rapidly American and Russian tensions are rising in the wake of the downing of Malaysian Flight 17 over Ukraine, the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army General Martin E. Dempsey, publicly expressed concern over the chain of events Russian President Vladimir Putin was unleashing in Eastern Europe “that many...
CNN Freelancer Detained In Ukraine Is Now Free
The CNN freelance journalist who was detained in eastern Ukraine is now free, the network confirmed on Saturday. Pro-Russian separatists took Anton Skiba from his hotel in Donetsk on Tuesday, after accusing him of “terrorism.” He had been working with CNN to cover the Malaysia Airlines plane crash. CNN reported that Skiba called the...
Police Visit To MH17 Disaster Site Canceled
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — A team of international police officers that had been due to visit the site of the Malaysian plane disaster in eastern Ukraine canceled the trip Sunday after receiving reports of fighting in the area. Alexander Hug, the deputy head of a monitoring team from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe,...
Obama Banned From Visiting Chechnya
MOSCOW (AP) — Although Russia has not responded to U.S. sanctions by putting a travel ban on President Barack Obama, there’s one part of the country he’s blocked from: Chechnya. The president of the small Russian republic that was the scene of two devastating separatist wars in the past 20 years on Saturday said he was placing...
