Section: The Washington Post (USA)
Russia’s Putin blames U.S. for destabilizing world order
MOSCOW–Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States of endangering the international order by trying to “remake the whole world” for its own, exclusive interests Friday, and predicted that Ukraine would not be the last conflict the major powers would clash over. Read full article >> …read more Source: The Washington...
Watch: Creepy Vladimir Putin doll annexes Crimea
What with his propensity for leather and shirtless cavorting, Russian President Vladimir Putin is used to being something of a fetish object. So perhaps we shouldn’t be too alarmed by this mechanical toy that’s on auction in Germany. The device depicts a somewhat anachronistic Russian leader at a wooden desk with a kerosene lamp,...
Watch: Ukrainian girl escapes death as Donetsk stadium debris crashes down
The video above is of CCTV footage taken on Monday outside the Dobass Arena in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, which, despite attempts to broker a ceasefire, continues to be the site of clashes between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists. We see a young child, identified in reports as a girl, stroll over to the stadium, which […]...
Russia’s Putin, Ukraine’s Poroshenko end summit with no breakthrough on conflict
MOSCOW — A high-stakes meeting between the leaders of Ukraine and Russia ended Friday with little progress in resolving the conflict in eastern Ukraine, highlighting the increasingly intractable struggle there between government forces and Russian-backed rebels. Read full article >> …read more Source: The Washington...
China leader signs trade deals with Russia in visit to sanction-squeezed Moscow
MOSCOW — With the West pushing hard to isolate Russia, President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday turned to the East to find an escape hatch as his nation signed dozens of trade deals with neighboring China. The agreements, which spanned from energy to finance to defense, were the latest in an economic partnership that has accelerated this year...
Western sanctions for Ukraine conflict hurt Russian economy, open up rifts
MOSCOW — Deep into the worst conflict between Russia and the West since the Cold War, investors are fleeing, inflation is soaring and Russia’s Westernized business elite is rumbling that the nation needs to avoid repeating the economic mismanagement that broke apart the Soviet Union. Read full article >> …read more Source: The...
Ukrainian politicians learn to roll with the punches — even when cake is thrown at them
While reports indicate that the conflict in Ukraine has settled into a calmer, albeit still violent, pace, public discontent surrounding policy decisions this summer rose to heated levels against Ukrainian politicians. Thursday’s event, in which Oleh Makhnitsky, an aide to Ukrainian Prime Minister Petro Poroshenko, hid behind a conference...
Fighting intensifies in Ukraine as pro-Russian rebels move on Donetsk airport
MOSCOW — Fighting intensified in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday despite a fragile cease-fire, as pro-Russian rebels appeared to be close to capturing the strategically important Donetsk airport. The fighting was some of the worst since a Sept. 5 cease-fire calmed the conflict, although shelling and casualties have continued throughout the nearly...
What toppled Lenin statues tell us about Ukraine’s crisis
In an incident reflecting growing Ukrainian anger toward the Kremlin, anti-Russian protesters pulled down a massive Vladimir Lenin statue in Ukraine’s second-largest city late Sunday. To many Ukrainians, Lenin is a symbol of the Soviet Union and Russia’s aggressive support for the separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine. Despite the 1991...
Ukrainians just pulled down a massive Lenin statue. What does that signal for Russia?
MOSCOW – Anti-Russian protesters in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, pulled down a massive statue of Vladimir Lenin late Sunday, a sign of hardening anger toward the Kremlin in an eastern Ukrainian area where sympathies are split between Kiev and Moscow. The pro-European protests that swept Ukraine in the winter were accompanied by a...
