Section: The Washington Times (USA)
While elites fiddle, Russia advances in East Europe
Not many Americans can locate Moldova, a tiny former Soviet republic with a mostly ethnic Romanian population bordered by Ukraine and Romania, on a map. Even fewer could tell you that Moldova was once part of Romania and won its independence with the fall of the Soviet Union, only to … …read more Source: The Washington...
Russia-US ties hard to mend, interests differ sharply
MOSCOW (AP) – The Kremlin hopes that Donald Trump will move to improve badly strained Russia-U.S. ties once he takes office. Relations between Moscow and Washington are at their lowest point since the Cold War amid the Ukrainian crisis, the war in Syria and other issues. It would be challenging … …read more Source: The...
Rex Tillerson: U.S. response to Russia Crimea seizure was ‘weak’
Former ExxonMobil chief Rex Tillerson, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of state, took a tough line on Russian hacking, praised Mexican immigrants and acknowledged the problem posed by global climate change — drawing repeated accolades from Democrats during his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday, but setting up some...
John Bolton slams Obama sanctions on Russia as inadequate
Former Bush administration U.N. ambassador John Bolton said Friday morning that President Obama’s sanctions on Russia was an inadequate response to that government’s pervasive hacking of U.S. computer systems during the 2016 presidential campaign. “I don’t think they will have much impact at all,” Mr. Bolton said...
Sergey Lavrov, Russia foreign minister, suggests expelling U.S. diplomats
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister on Friday suggested expelling 35 U.S. diplomats in response to a new round of U.S. sanctions against Moscow. U.S. President Obama on Thursday imposed sanctions on Russian officials and intelligence services in retaliation alleged Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election, as American...
OSCE, international monitoring group, acknowledges ‘major security incident’
The Organization for Security Cooperation in Europe, a group tasked with monitoring the pro-Russian uprising in eastern Ukraine, admitted Wednesday to being the victim of a recent “major security incident.” “There was an attack. We found out about it at the beginning of November,” an OSCE spokeswoman told …...
The Latest: Putin: Stick with existing talks on Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) – The Latest on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s end-of-year press conference (all times local): ___ 2:35 p.m. Russian President Vladimir Putin says that peace talks sponsored by France and Germany should remain the basis for efforts to settle the conflict in eastern Ukraine. A peace deal brokered by … …read...
Ukraine is making progress
Corruption is the biggest threat to Ukraine’s independence and survival as a free country, even more so than Russian troops in Donbass. For if corruption is allowed to win the day, as it always has, then Ukraine does not have a future, no matter how well it deals with the … …read more Source: The Washington...
DNC hackers likely used Android exploit against Ukraine, signaling Russian involvement: Report
A cybersecurity firm hired to investigate the Democratic National Committee breach that preceded this year’s presidential election said Thursday that the hack’s presumed perpetrators, Russia’s military intelligence agency, likely used the same malware to target Ukrainian soldiers on the battlefield during their ongoing war...
Jens Stoltenberg, NATO chief, urges West to keep pressuring Russia over Ukraine
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is urging Western allies to maintain diplomatic pressure and sanctions on Russia until it respects the peace agreement in Ukraine. After talks with NATO and Ukraine foreign ministers, Stoltenberg told reporters Wednesday of a “massive increase in cease-fire violations” in the...
