Section: The Washington Times (USA)
Volodymyr Groysman, Ukraine’s prime minister, puts corruption fight at top of agenda
Ukraine’s prime minister said his 60-day-old government wants to make a quick start in tackling deep-seated corruption in order to boost the economy and attract international investment. “Reforms provide us with an opportunity to change our country and reach its maximum potential,” Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said at a...
Georgian, Ukrainian officials push for NATO membership
WASHINGTON (AP) – Senior officials from Georgia and Ukraine on Wednesday exhorted NATO members to bring the two nations into the alliance in order to protect them from Russia and cement ties with the West. Georgia, a small post-Soviet nation in the South Caucasus intensified efforts to join the Western … …read more Source: The...
L. TODD WOOD: Markets return a negative verdict on Obama’s Russian sanctions
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The Obama administration pushed sanctions against Russia for its illegal annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine in 2014 and for the Kremlin’s backing of separatists in eastern Ukraine that continues to this day. The goal was to punish Russia for its actions, and to paraphrase President Obama, “to …...
L. TODD WOOD: Will the Trump military buildup come too late?
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Gen. Sir Richard Shirreff, formerly NATO’s deputy supreme allied commander in Europe, claimed in a recent book release that Western defense cuts and slowness to confront Russia in Eastern Europe will lead to the Kremlin retaking the Baltics and consolidating gains in Ukraine. He believes Russian President Vladimir Putin...
Behind the Curtain: Vladimir Putin manipulates oil price rise for Russian rebound
Ever since sanctions were imposed on Russia following the annexation of Crimea and the start of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, it has been the Kremlin’s strategy to wait out the West, based on a divide-and-conquer approach to the countries of Europe. We now may be seeing that strategy start … …read more Source: The Washington...
The Latest: Ukrainian accused of people-smuggling in Austria
BERLIN (AP) – The Latest on European efforts to respond to the wave of migration (all times local): 4 p.m. Austrian police have arrested a Ukrainian national after finding 27 migrants crammed into a van he was driving. Police said Thursday that they stopped the vehicle in the village of … …read more Source: The Washington...
Panama Papers: Politicians, celebs deny abuse of offshore accounts
BERLIN (AP) — The president of Ukraine became the latest prominent politician to deny wrongdoing Wednesday after his name was linked to secretive offshore accounts arranged by a Panama law firm. The revelations have raised suspicion that such offshore entities were set up to avoid taxes, but Petro Poroshenko denied … …read more...
Francis announces special collection for victims of Ukraine conflict
Vatican City – On Sunday Pope Francis announced that a special collection will be taken up in all Catholic churches in Europe April 24, the funds of which will go toward relief for all suffering due to ongoing violence in Ukraine. After celebrating Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Divine … …read more Source: The Washington...
Russia employs old Soviet playbook in Georgia
ANALYSIS/OPINION: When Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution broke out in 2014, Western leaders should have recognized right at the outset that Russia would employ the same playbook there as it has in another vulnerable slice of the old Soviet Union — Georgia. With its small neighbor in the Caucasus, the Kremlin invoked … …read more...
John Kerry off to Russia for Syria talks after Brussels attacks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry is heading to Moscow for talks on Ukraine and Syria as the attacks against Brussels underscored the urgency of fighting the Islamic State group. Kerry departed Washington late Tuesday after accompanying President Barack Obama to Cuba and speaking by phone from Havana … …read more Source:...
