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NEWSLINK Wall Street Journal: U.S., Ukraine Weigh Expansion of American Training Program
NEWSLINK Christian Science Monitor: Back-to-back Russia-hosted summits put Putin in coveted starring role.
Images of a Putin alongside leaders of other large countries, signing economic deals, will reinforce Russia’s argument that it doesn’t need the West. It’s a seductive view, but a superficial one, say analysts
» Read moreNEWSLINK The Times (UK)/Edward Lucas, We help Ukraine best by hitting Putin’s cronies. The way to liberate the country is to freeze Russian money invested in Britain and America
NEWSLINK Reuters: Kremlin critics say ‘climate of fear’ grows in Russia
NEWSLINK London School of Economics and Political Science/Cristian Nitoiu: The ‘Russian threat’ has revived nationalism in the ‘new’ Europe
NEWSLINK Interfax-Ukraine: Ukrainian Navy can be headquartered in Trade Unions House “according to wartime laws” – Saakasvhili
NEWSLINK AFP: Russia cuts off power supplies to Ukraine rebels: Kiev
NEWSLINK Wall Street Journal: Eastern Ukraine Refugees Worry They Came Home Too Soon. Some who came back to after cease-fire now live in fear of renewed fighting
Almost 1,000 people—combatants and civilians—have been killed since the cease-fire was agreed to in mid-February, about half in the days of heavy fighting immediately afterward. That has brought the death toll to more than 6,400 since the conflict began in April 2014, according to United Nations figures.
» Read moreNEWSLINK Interfax-Ukraine: Poroshenko certain Russian gas transit will continue via Ukraine after 2019
NEWSLINK New York Times: Islamic Battalions, Stocked With Chechens, Aid Ukraine in War With Rebels
NEWSLINK New York Times: Russian Belts Tighten, Affecting Tastes for the Finer Things
NEWSLINK Washington Post/Jackson Diehl: Will we let Ukraine die?
NEWSLINK Christian Science Monitor: Successful rocket launch a reminder that Russia, US can cooperate
NEWSLINK Kyiv Post: Pyatt sees opportunities to strengthen US, Ukraine ties
NEWSLINK Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Thomas Pickering on diplomacy, Iran, Korea, Russia, realpolitik & ethics of war
NEWSLINK AP: Root of tattered US-Russia ties date back decades
NEWSLINK CNN: Russian rocket takes off to resupply ISS after two previous missions failed
NEWSLINK Christian Science Monitor: Goodbye Washington, hello Moscow? Saudi Arabia finds friendly face in Putin
The two oil-producing giants seem to have made a breakthrough last month in their often adversarial relationship, signing several cooperation pacts. But incompatible foreign policies may yet cool the new warmth
» Read moreNEWSLINK Washington Post editorial: Seeing conspiracies in Armenia where none exist
NEWSLINK Interfax-Ukraine: To resign now would be betrayal of Ukraine and cowardice – Yatseniuk
NEWSLINK International Institute for Strategic Studies/John Drennan: The perilous Line of Contact in southeastern Ukraine
NEWSLINK Kyiv Post: Yatsenyuk’s party drops in polls as scandals swirl around prime minister
NEWSLINK Reuters/Josh Cohen: Want to escalate U.S.-Russia tension? Arm Ukraine
NEWSLINK Christian Science Monitor: Anti-Americanism provides big boost to Russia’s small IT businesses
Russia’s economic conditions seem like they couldn’t be less hospitable to starting a new company. But small software firms are starting to thrive, in part because of Western sanctions
» Read moreNEWSLINK Euromaidan Press: Putin regime can’t be reformed, only replaced, like its Soviet predecessor, Yakovenko says
“Having unleashed the imperial self-consciousness of the population, Yakovenko continues, ‘Putin not only does not want but cannot stop this insanity. He already lacks the powers to stop the war he began in Ukraine, even if he wanted to. He lacks the power to stop the hysteria of hatred in the media.’
» Read moreNEWSLINK: Pittsburgh Tribune: ‘Strength’ is all the Russians understand (Adm. James Stavridis)
NEWSLINK New York Times: Group Approves Fellowship Named for Controversial Scholar of Russia
NEWSLINK: International Business Times: Moscow To Build Bridge From Russian Mainland To Crimea Across The Kerch Strait
NEWSLINK Human Rights in Ukraine: High-ranking Berkut officer charged over Euromaidan killings
NEWSLINK Politico.EU/Ivo Daalder, Malcolm Rifkind: In defense of Ukraine; The West has to act now, or Russia’s assault will be irreversible
NEWSLINK Forbes/Adrian Bonenberger: Ukraine Can Defeat The Separatists
NEWSLINK Wall Street Journal: Ukraine Looks to Privatization to Counter Budget Woes. Government searches for buyers for moribund state enterprises, such as an old silk farm in Shovkove
NEWSLINK New York Times: Russia Sees a Threat in Its Converts to Islam
NEWSLINK Kyiv Post: After a year of war against Ukraine, Russia is still the country’s leading trade partner
NEWSLINK Reuters: Ukraine debt envoy ratchets up payment suspension warning
NEWSLINK O’Dwyer’s: APCO Gives PR Support to Embattled Ukraine
NEWSLINK European Council on Foreign Relations: Saakashvili in Odessa – no half-measures this time
NEWSLINK New York Times: Columbia University Press to Publish New Translations of Russian Literature
NEWSLINK New York Times: Yevgeny Primakov, Former Premier of Russia, Dies at 85
NEWSLINK Asia Times/M.K.Bhadrakumar: Russia braces for ‘Euromaidan’ in Armenia
NEWSLINK BBC: Ukraine crisis: Yanukovych regrets bloodshed in Kiev
Ukraine’s former President Viktor Yanukovych has said he accepts some responsibility for the killings that led to his overthrow in February 2014.
» Read moreNEWSLINK Kyiv Post: Resident of Russian-held Horlivka: ‘We have nothing’
Night has fallen over the Russian-occupied city ofHorlivka that lies 10 kilometers from the war front.
» Read moreNEWSLINK Wall Street Journal: Russia Weathers Financial Risks but More Remain, Bank of Russia Says
Unpredictability of oil prices and ruble’s rate poses threats, as does a U.S. rate increase, bank’s report says
» Read moreNEWSLINK Reuters: U.S. to pre-position tanks, artillery in Baltics, eastern Europe
The United States will pre-position tanks, artillery and other military equipment in eastern and central Europe, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced on Tuesday, moving to reassure NATO allies unnerved by Russian involvement in Ukraine.
» Read moreNEWSLINK Financial Times: Senior Putin aide warns over Russia-US relations
One of Vladimir Putin’s most senior officials has warned the US against a plan to store heavy weapons in eastern Europe as Nato draws up contingency plans for conflict in Europe for the first time since the cold war. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a7c7557e-17f0-11e5-a130-2e7db721f996.html
» Read moreNEWSLINK AP: US hopes Russia may change direction when Vladimir Putin is gone
US defence secretary Ash Carter speculates that Russia may be more ‘forward-looking’ after its current president has moved on http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/22/us-and-nato-need-strong-but-balanced-approach-to-russia-under-putin
» Read moreNEWSLINK Reuters: After midnight in the library, Putin sets out his world view
It was two minutes before midnight when Russian President Vladimir Putin finally entered the meeting room in the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, more than three hours late, to be interviewed by a dozen exhausted journalists. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/20/us-russia-putin-idUSKBN0P00JG20150620
» Read moreNEWSLINK Wall Street Journal/Edward Lucas: Buttressing the Front Line Against Putin. The U.S. must compel Nordic and Baltic states to put aside old prejudices and link arms against the Russian threat.
Russia is waging a new cold war in the Baltic region, breaching international law and the conventions that govern civilized behavior among nations. The Kremlin provokes and intimidates its neighbors with aggressive espionage, corruption of political elites, propaganda onslaughts, cyberattacks, economic sanctions, coercive energy policies, surprise military exercises, and violations of airspace, territorial waters and even national borders, as […]
» Read moreNEWSLINK The Economist: Ukraine and Russia. Putin the uniter. The war has made most Ukrainians see Russians as enemies, not friends.
The longer the war drags on, the more entrenched opinion becomes. Olexander Scherba, a Ukrainian diplomat, eschewed the Maidan protests, calling himself “a Eurosceptic and Russophile” on his Facebook page in late 2013. “I was ready to forgive Russia a lot,” says Mr Scherba, now Ukraine’s ambassador to Austria. “But now it’s absolutely clear: they are an enemy.” Even many […]
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