Interfax: National Guard commander mentions minor violations of truce on militia’s part

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KHARKIV. Sept 6 (Interfax) – Minor violations of the truce in Ukraine on the part of the militia were recorded until 6:45 p.m. Kyiv time on September 5, Ukrainian National Guard Commander Stepan Poltorak said. “The National Guard is stationed virtually along the entire perimeter of the combat activities. There were minor violations in the Debaltseve area, but the firing […]

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RIA Novosti: Official: Ukraine’s NATO Membership Not Discussed at Meeting in UK

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NEWPORT, September 5 (RIA Novosti) – NATO and Ukraine did not discuss the possibility of the Eastern European country’s membership in the military alliance, a NATO official said Friday. “In regard to membership, no, that question wasn’t raided and wasn’t discussed,” the official said on conditions of anonymity. On Wednesday, the Ukrainian government approved legislation to change the country’s “non-bloc” […]

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Moscow Times: Mrs. America Defies Politics and Brings Beauty Pageant to Crimea

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(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – September 5, 2014) While NATO on Thursday called on Russia to “end its illegal annexation of Crimea,” the organizers of a U.S. beauty pageant seem unfazed about the peninsula’s political status, and are planning to ship the country’s most beautiful married women to Sevastopol. Organizers of the Mrs. America beauty contest revealed Monday that they […]

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Interfax: Parties led by Poroshenko, Lyashko, Tymoshenko may garner comparable number of votes in Ukrainian parliamentary elections – poll

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KYIV. Sept 4 (Interfax) – The Solidarity party led by Petro Poroshenko, the Radical Party led by Oleh Lyashko, and the Batkivshchyna all-Ukrainian association have roughly equal electoral ratings in the run-up to early parliamentary elections scheduled in Ukraine for October 26, 2014, as is seen from a poll conducted by GfK Ukraine. In particular, 16% of respondents plan to […]

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Moscow Times: New EU Sanctions to Inflict Long-Term Pain

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(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Howard Amos – September 5, 2014) The Russian business world is braced for the European Union’s unfurling of a fresh round of economic sanctions on Friday, with analysts predicting that Russia’s $2 trillion economy will be squeezed even tighter while its companies face isolation from international markets. A peace plan sketched out by President Vladimir […]

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Interfax: Stepashin: U.S., its allies are looking to get Putin out of power, isolate Russia

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MOSCOW. Sept 5 (Interfax) – Sergei Stepashin, chairman of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society and former prime minister of Russia, believes the purpose of the sanctions imposed by the U.S. and its allies on Russia is to get Vladimir Putin out of power and isolate Russia on the international scene. In his letter to U.S. President Barack Obama, the text […]

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Russia Beyond the Headlines: Ukrainian conflict: What exactly is Russia trying to achieve in the east?

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(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Gevorg Mirzayan, special to RBTH – September 4, 2014) Moscow has a vital interest in maintaining a unified Ukraine in which the pro-Russian south-eastern regions will have a distinct voice. The main goal of Russia’s support for the militants in the Donbass region is to ultimately prevent Ukraine’s entry into NATO and to […]

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Interfax: OSCE mission in Ukraine may be increased to 500 observers – Russian envoy to OSCE

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MOSCOW. Sept 5 (Interfax) – The OSCE intends to increase the number of its observers in Ukraine to 500, which may be enough for monitoring a ceasefire observance in eastern Ukraine, in the nearest future, Russian permanent envoy to the OSCE Andrei Kelin said. “We will begin recruiting in the nearest future. We may increase the mission [in Ukraine] to […]

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The Poroshenko Phenomenon: Elections and Challenges Ahead

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(PONARS Eurasia – ponarseurasia.org – Olexiy Haran and Petro Burkovsky – August 2014) Petro Burkovskyi is deputy chief of the Analytical and Information Division in the National Institute for Strategic Studies (NISS), on civil service since 2005. Olexiy Haran is professor of Comparative Politics and Founding Director at the School for Policy Analysis, Kyiv Mohyla University. Back in 2005, it seemed that Petro […]

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RIA Novosti: Donetsk, Luhansk Leaders Say Ready to Order Ceasefire Friday If Peace Plan Agreed

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MOSCOW, September 4 (RIA Novosti) – The leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics in eastern Ukraine said in a joint statement Thursday they were ready to order ceasefire on Friday afternoon if a peace plan is signed during negotiations in Minsk. “We are ready to order ceasefire at 3:00 p.m. Moscow time [11:00 GMT] if an agreement […]

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Ceasefire called in Ukraine

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(Business New Europe – bne.eu – September 4, 2014) Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko called for a “permanent ceasefire” on September 3, following a call to Russian President Vladimir Putin, raising hopes that peace was around the corner in Ukraine. Those hopes were dented later the same day when the Ukrainian presidential website where the announcement had first appeared revised the […]

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RIA Novosti: Lavrov: Russia Ready to Explain Provisions of Putin’s Plan on Ukraine in Details

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MOSCOW, September 4 (RIA Novosti) – Moscow is ready to explain and clarify the provisions of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s seven-point plan on Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday. “We, as a country that in cooperation with OSCE officials has been trying to launch a substantive and meaningful dialogue between Kiev and southeastern Ukraine, have put forward a […]

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RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#195 table of contents with links :: Friday 5 September 2014

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[check back for updates, including more links; links also posted to facebook and twitter] Johnson’s Russia List JRL 2014-#195 :: Friday 5 September 2014 E-Mail: davidjohnson@starpower.net A project of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George  Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs: www.ieres.org JRL homepage: russialist.org JRL on Facebook: facebook.com/russialist  JRL on Twitter: twitter.com/JohnsonRussiaLi Support JRL: russialist.org/funding.php  1. The Times (UK): Neo-Nazis give Kiev a last line of defence […]

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Interfax: “Putin plan” on Ukraine only a proposal on priority measures – spokesman

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(Interfax – September 3, 2014) Putin’s plan to settle the situation in Ukraine is only a proposal on priority measures, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitriy Peskov has said, Russian privately-owned Interfax news agency reported on 3 September. “This is not an exhaustive plan. It is a proposal on priority measures and everything else is an issue for further talks,” Peskov told […]

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Poll: More Russians View Ukrainians Negatively

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(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – September 4, 2014) A new survey released by the independent Levada Center on Wednesday revealed a tendency among Russians to characterize Ukrainians by negative personality traits, and their Russians compatriots by favorable ones. Forty-seven percent of respondents to the poll, which was conducted between Aug. 22 and 25, said Russians were generally willing to offer […]

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Ukraine Looks To Stalin Era To Root Out Spies

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(RFE/RL – rferl.org –  Luke Johnson – September 03, 2014) Kyiv appears to have taken a page from Stalin’s book in a bid to root out pro-Russian spies looking to weaken Ukraine’s defenses from within. Ukrainian Defense Minister Valeriy Heletey has announced the creation of a Special Service, similar to a counterintelligence organization that existed during Josef Stalin’s rule, to deal with subversive […]

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RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#194 table of contents with links :: Thursday 4 September 2014

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[check back for updates, including more links; links also posted to facebook and twitter] Johnson’s Russia List JRL 2014-#194 :: Thursday 4 September 2014 E-Mail: davidjohnson@starpower.net A project of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George  Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs: www.ieres.org JRL homepage: russialist.org JRL on Facebook: facebook.com/russialist  JRL on Twitter: twitter.com/JohnsonRussiaLi Support JRL: russialist.org/funding.php  Ukraine & Russia 1. Moscow Times: Poll: Most Russians Would Sacrifice Booze […]

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RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#193 table of contents with links :: Wednesday 3 September 2014

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… 31. Wall Street Journal editorial: Deterring a European War. Putin wants to break NATO, and his next move may be against the Baltic states. 32. New York Times editorial: NATO’s Urgent Challenges. 33. NATO: NATO and Russia: a new strategic reality. Remarks by NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Alexander Vershbow at the conference on “NATO after the Wales Summit” ….

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Russian Orthodox Church Risks Schism Over Conflict in Ukraine

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(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Alexey Eremenko – September 3, 2014) On the last day of summer, a Russian Orthodox priest imposed against his parishioners who had fought in Ukraine’s “fratricidal war” a 20-year ban on receiving communion. Those deemed to have only promoted the conflict raging in Ukraine’s east, either verbally or in writing, will be hit with an […]

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TRANSCRIPT [Vershbow]: NATO and Russia: a new strategic reality

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(NATO – nato.int – September 2, 2014) “NATO and Russia: a new strategic reality” Remarks by NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Alexander Vershbow at the conference on “NATO after the Wales Summit”, Cardiff University Thank you, Sir Emyr Jones Parry, for that kind introduction. I’m grateful for the invitation to be here on the eve of the NATO Summit. We’ve been preparing […]

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Interfax: Eastern Ukrainian militia mistrust Poroshenko ceasefire declaration

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DONETSK. Sept 3 (Interfax) – Oleh Tsaryov, the chairman of the common legislature of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR), is skeptical about the Ukrainian presidential press service’s declaration on reaching agreements on a ceasefire in Donbas. “This is not the first time that the Ukrainian authorities declare halting of combat activities. The previous such […]

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Business New Europe: Ukraine’s Poroshenko orders “permanent ceasefire” in Ukraine following Putin conversation

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(Business New Europe – bne.eu – September 3, 2014) Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko permanent ceasefire in eastern Ukraine firing a conversation this morning with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Poroshenko made the announcement on Twitter account. “Mutual understanding was achieved concerning the steps which will enable the establishment of peace,” a statement said after Poroshenko and Putin spoke by phone. The […]

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Business New Europe/RIA Novosti: European Commission to level new sanctions on Friday

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(Business New Europe – bne.eu/RIA Novosti – September 3, 2014) The European Commission suggests limiting Russian state-owned companies’ access to European capital markets, as it prepares to possibly impose new tougher sanctions on Russia at a meeting on Friday, September 5. According to agency statements, the new economic sanctions against Russia, proposed by the European commission, include limiting the access […]

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Interfax: Reporter Stenin dies in Ukrainian attack on refugee convoy, says Investigative Committee

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(Interfax – September 3, 2014) Rossiya Segodnya news agency photographer Andrei Stenin died on the Snizhne-Dmytrivka road in southeastern Ukraine in the Ukrainian army’s attack on a refugee convoy, Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin told Interfax. “Detectives have discovered circumstances of the journalist’s death : A. Stenin was on a field trip to Snizhne, Ukraine, on August 5,” the […]

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Russia Beyond the Headlines: Hot rhetoric, chilly war? Politicians and analysts on the future of U.S.-Russia relations

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(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – David Miller, RBTH – September 3, 2014) Relations between the U.S. and Russia deteriorated in 2014 at a rate few would have predicted, as divisions over civil unrest in Ukraine escalated into tit-for-tat rounds of economic sanctions. But is it a new Cold War? Political observers – and politicians – are divided on […]

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Russia Beyond the Headlines: Tough NATO response over Ukraine may lead to greater divisions with Russia

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(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Gevorg Mirzayan, special to RBTH – September 3, 2014) NATO will hold its first summit since the start of the conflict in Ukraine on September 4-5. According to information leaked to the media, the alliance is planning to adopt several measures aimed at deterring Russia from military action against European nations. Analysts polled by RBTH […]

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RIA Novosti: Ukraine Plans to Build Wall on Border With Russia in 6 Months

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MOSCOW, September 3 (RIA Novosti) – Ukraine plans to build a wall along its border with Russia in six months, the Kiev government said in its National Renewal plan released Wednesday. “The Wall Project to build and equip a reinforced barrier between Ukraine and Russia [should be completed] within six months,” the plan says. Earlier the same day, Ukrainian Prime […]

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Interfax: “Russian veterans: Volunteers fighting for just cause in Ukraine”

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MOSCOW. Sept 3 (Interfax) – Russian volunteers fighting in Ukraine have gone there by the call of their heart to help their brothers and to defend people’s right to a decent life, Russian veterans’ organizations stated. “Russian volunteers are fighting for a just cause, they are defending their friends, the ideals of justice and freedom, the right of people to […]

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Interfax: Ukraine should withdraw subdivisions from settlements to stop bloodshed – Putin

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ULAN-BATOR. Sept 3 (Interfax) – Both conflict parties should agree and carry out a set of actions in order to stop the bloodshed and stabilize the situation in south-eastern Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. “The first thing is to stop active offensive operations by the armed forces and armed formations of militia of south-eastern Ukraine in the direction of […]

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RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#192 table of contents with links :: Tuesday 2 September 2014

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[check back for updates, including more links; links also posted to facebook and twitter] Johnson’s Russia List JRL 2014-#192 ::Tuesday 2 September 2014 E-Mail: davidjohnson@starpower.net A project of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George  Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs: www.ieres.org JRL homepage: russialist.org JRL on Facebook: facebook.com/russialist  JRL on Twitter: twitter.com/JohnsonRussiaLi Support JRL: russialist.org/funding.php  1. Paul Grenier: A Remarkable Interview: Ukraine General Regarding the East Ukraine […]

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Re: The Ukraine, the West and Russia

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Subject: The Ukraine, the West and Russia Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 From: “Dr. Christian Wipperfürth” <cwipperfuerth@email.de> (Associate Fellow, German Council on Foreign Relations, dgap.org/en/user/16515/christian-wipperfuerth) The Ukraine, the West and Russia The “United Nations” have announced that far more than 2000 people have been killed in the east Ukraine between April and mid August 2014. The UN described their estimate […]

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Interfax: Kremlin rows back from Putin’s talk of “statehood” for southeast Ukraine

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(Interfax – August 31, 2014) The Kremlin’s press spokesman has clarified remarks made by President Vladimir Putin about “statehood” for the separatist parts of southeast Ukraine. Dmitriy Peskov “explained that when he was talking about the need for Kiev to start talks with the militias in Novorossiya, Vladimir Putin was talking not about the region’s status but an inclusive dialogue […]

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Business New Europe: Sabre rattling vs. progress towards peace in Ukraine

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(Business New Europe – bne.eu – Ben Aris – September 2, 2014) September 1 saw more sabre rattling in Berlin and Brussels with more demands that “Russia must be made to pay,” while in the Belarusian capital Ukrainian rebel leaders made a few key concessions necessary for an eventual peace. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was strident in her comments that […]

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Re: A Remarkable Interview: Ukraine General Regarding the East Ukraine Separatists, “I don’t consider them enemies”

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Subject: A Remarkable Interview: Ukraine General Regarding the East Ukraine Separatists, “I don’t consider them enemies” Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 From: Paul Grenier <psgrenier@gmail.com> A Remarkable Interview: Ukraine General Regarding the East Ukraine Separatists, “I don’t consider them enemies” Paul Grenier The war in Ukraine, like virtually every war, depends for its continuation on demonization of the enemy. A […]

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Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russia denies invading Ukraine as West claims it has evidence of incursion

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(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Nikolai Litovkin, RBTH – August 29, 2014) Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has declared that Russia has invaded his country. The EU and the U.S., however, are in no rush to provide military help to Ukraine, limiting themselves to sanctions against Russia. Meanwhile, Moscow has dismissed the latest Western accusations and satellite images released […]

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Interfax: TV main source of info for most Russians on Ukraine events; over half believe it is unbiased – poll

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(Interfax – August 29, 2014) An overwhelming majority of Russians – 94 percent – are following the events in Ukraine, and television remains the primary source of information for 93 percent of them, the Levada Center sociological service told Interfax with reference to a nationwide public opinion poll it conducted on August 22-25. About a quarter of respondents – 25 […]

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RIA Novosti: Ukraine’s Militia Uses Soviet Weaponry From Captured Warehouses – Defense Ministry

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MOSCOW, August 30 (RIA Novosti) – Self-defense forces in southeastern Ukraine are using the captured Soviet equipment that they got at the abandoned warehouses and captured Ukrainian forces’ equipment depots, while they do not receive anything from Russia, Russia’s Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said Saturday in an interview with Slovak television. “When the USSR collapsed, the Ukrainian territory was […]

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Business New Europe: Ukraine investigators fear treachery by top officials wrecking war effort

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(Business New Europe – bne.eu – Graham Stack in Volnovakha, Ukraine – September 2, 2014) As Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko promises dismissals among top security officials following battlefield defeats, investigators identified two top-ranking sets of brothers that they fear may be sabotaging Ukraine’s “anti-terrorist operation” against pro-Russian separatists. Poroshenko promised far-reaching personnel changes on September 1 at the very top […]

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Moscow Times: Russia’s ‘Secret War’ in Ukraine Technically Legal

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(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Alexey Eremenko – September 2, 2014) The secrecy shrouding a group of Russian paratroopers allegedly deployed to Ukraine has caused an outcry among the liberal media and immeasurable worry to troops’ relatives – but it appears that Russian authorities are legally entitled to remain tight-lipped. Not even in the case of “cargo 200” – as […]

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Interfax: Idea on Ukraine’s refusal from non-aligned status belongs to “war party” supporters in Kyiv – Lavrov

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MOSCOW. Sept 2 (Interfax) – The proposal by the Ukrainian government to revoke the non-aligned status of the country shows the attempts of supporters of forceful conflict resolution in south-eastern Ukraine to disrupt the search for ways for political settlement, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a news conference in Moscow on Tuesday. “I would draw your attention to […]

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Interfax: Moscow calls provocative, shocking Ukrainian defense minister’s statement

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(Interfax – September 2, 2014) The Russian Foreign Ministry has dubbed provocative the recent statement by Ukrainian Defense Minister Valeriy Heletey who announced “the end of the operation aimed to free eastern Ukraine from terrorists” and the beginning of “a great patriotic war, which will have tens of thousands of casualties.” “The appeal of V. Heletey to prepare for another […]

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Moscow Military Review Lists Seven ‘Probable’ Targets in ‘Novorossiya’

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(Window on Eurasia – Paul Goble – Staunton, August 29, 2014) “Voyennoye obozreniye,” an online Moscow journal directed at the Russian military and military analysts, has published today list of seven targets Russian forces are likely to attack in the course of what it describes as “the probable future of the war for Novorossiya.” Of course, which ones the Kremlin […]

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Moscow Times: New Book Tells How Russia Took Crimea So Easily

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(Moscow Times – moscowtimes.com – Nabi Abdullaev – August 29, 2014) After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine had the second-largest armed forces in Europe (after Russia) and the fourth-largest in the world (after Russia, China and the United States). Twenty-three years later, when the Russian military invaded Ukrainian territory in Crimea this February, the country formidably […]

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Moscow Times: Russia Wants Say in EU-Ukraine Association Deal

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(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Delphine d’Amora – August 29, 2014) Russia wants to propose amendments to the association agreement between Ukraine and the European Union, top officials said, despite Ukraine and the EU maintaining that the bilateral agreement is moments away from ratification and not open to suggestions. Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev and Kremlin economic adviser Andrei Belousov […]

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RIA Novosti: ‘Fact-Hiding’ Distinctive WesternBehavior in Regard to Events in Ukraine – Lavrov

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MOSCOW, August 29 (RIA Novosti) – “Fact-hiding” is a distinctive Western behavior in the events in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday. “It seems to me that ‘fact-hiding’ is a characteristic feature of the position, first and foremost, by the US and a number of European countries in regard to everything that is happening in Ukraine, be it […]

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Russian and rebel forces seen free to advance from border to Ukraine port of Mariupol

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(Business New Europe – bne.eu – Graham Stack in Bezimmine, Ukraine – August 28, 2014) The forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic – comprising irregular Russian-backed rebels and regular Russian troops – are free to advance from the border town of Novoazovsk to Ukraine’s second largest port of Mariuopol, warn fighters of Ukraine’s irregular Dnipro battalion, which is based […]

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Interfax: Ukraine Foreign Ministry tentatively agrees to Russia’s next aid convoy – Lavrov

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MOSCOW. Aug 29 (Interfax) – The Russian Foreign Ministry has received a response from Kyiv which tentatively agreed to the possible dispatch of Russia’s second Ukraine-bound humanitarian aid convoy, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said. “We have received a response note from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, which gave its tentative agreement to a proposal to send humanitarian aid to […]

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Interfax: Poroshenko says strayed Russian paratroopers to be repatriated – Putin

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SELIGER, Tver region. Aug 29 (Interfax) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that an agreement has been reached with Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko about the handover of Russian airborne troops held in Ukraine. “We spoke about it with Petro Poroshenko, and he reassured me that the Russian military servicemen will be handed over to Russia just like we have […]

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RIA Novosti: Moscow to Push for Dialogue on Ukraine Crisis – Russian Foreign Ministry

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MOSCOW, August 29 (RIA Novosti) – Moscow will help in negotiations between the warring sides in Ukraine and is taking steps toward a de-escalation of the conflict, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Friday. “Russia will consistently help in creating the conditions for transferring the situation into a negotiation channel through strengthening trust between the warring sides, taking […]

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Moscow Times: Russia Say West Doesn’t Understand Its ‘Close Relations’ With Ukraine

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(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Anna Dolgov – August 29, 2014) UNITED NATIONS – As the West lined up to condemn Russia for what Ukraine has called “an invasion” of its eastern regions, Russia at the UN Security Council urged it to keep out of its “close relations” with its neighbor in a show of increasing frustration that dimmed hopes […]

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