In September 2014, Ukraine, Russia, and Ukrainian separatists signed Minsk Protocol, after talks facilitated by Organization for Security and Cooperation Europe. In February 2015, Ukraine, Russia, France, and Germany met again and agreed on Minsk II. ..…
Ciaramella Was Detailed to National Security Council at White House 2015 After Joining CIA as Analyst Focusing on Ukraine & Russia.. ..…
Whether out of common sense, naiveté or just contrariness, the Donald has dared to question and disrupt the Empire’s core policy on the Ukraine/Russia file. ..…
Whether out of common sense, naiveté or just contrariness, the Donald has dared to question and disrupt the Empire’s core policy on the Ukraine/Russia file. ..…
As victims of communism & antisemitism, they despised Ukraine/USSR, revered [the United States]. ..…
He praised the protesters who forced out Ukraine’s Russia-friendly president, he recited Ukrainian poetry, and he called for reforms to Ukraine’s gas market, too. . ..…
Once OSCE certified the elections as free and fair, the occupied areas would gain special status, and Ukrainian sovereignty would be restored over all of Donbas, including along Ukraine- Russia border.. ..…
Obama sent money and arms for coup government and neo-fascist mercenary attacks on Eastern Ukraine. Russia offered some support to Donetsk insurgents, but would not bring them into the Russian Federation, which was their desire. . ..…
Hillary Clinton and the DNC used Ukraine, Russia, and British agent Christopher Steele to compile the bogus Steele Dossier. ..…
FILE PHOTO French President Emmanuel Macron meets Russia's President Vladimir Putin, at his summer retreat of Bregancon fortress on Mediterranean coast, near the village of Bormes-les-Mimosas, southern France, on August 19, 2019. ..…
., which is deeply involved in military activities along Russia’s border—in the Baltic States, Poland, Georgia, and especially Ukraine. Russia already had military ties with Cuba, which ran far deeper and longer than those with Venezuela. ..…
Hunter Biden was hired by the Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings in April 2014, less than two months after Ukraine’s Russia-friendly president, Viktor Yanukovych, was ousted by protesters and as Biden’s father, as vice president, was heavily involved in US. efforts to support the new..…
With Ukraine, Russia is potentially a world power. Without it, it is less, at best. ..…
A peace accord is being planned for later this month in Normandy involving Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany. . ..…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the swap had been agreed with his Russian, Vladimir Putin, and that he hoped for soon-to-be-held meeting between Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany to help finish this horrible war with pro- Russia forces Ukraine.. ..…
Makarov was alluding to the assassination of former acting president of Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, on February 13, 2004, Qatar. ..…
Polish authorities didn’t invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend anniversary events because of Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and support for separatist fighters in eastern Ukraine. . Russia’s recent rehabilitation of the Stalinist era, and a pact Soviet leader Josef Stalin..…
Polish authorities didn't invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend anniversary events because of Moscow's annexation of Crimea and support for separatist fighters in eastern Ukraine. . Russia's recent rehabilitation of the Stalinist era, and a pact Soviet leader Josef Stalin made..…
In terms of economic policy, those 20 years fall into four distinct periods: the “reform” years of his first term (1999-2003); the “statist” years of his second term (2004 – the first half of 2008); the world economic crisis and recovery (the second half of 2008 – 2013); and the war in..…
Ironically, barely four days after being accused by Kiev of planning to invade Ukraine, Russia’s President Putin agreed with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso that Moscow would not only collaborate with the Red Cross on channeling humanitarian aid to Eastern Ukraine through..…
The Ottomans and their vassals Tatars enslaved Slavic peoples of what is now Ukraine, Russia and Balkans The potentates of the North African coast, known to history as Barbary Pirates, raided European ships and coastal communities in Mediterranean. ..…
At the extreme, in the cases of Georgia and Ukraine, Russia has invaded neighboring countries to block their integration into NATO or EU and to send message to other governments in the region that pursuing Western-backed democratic reform will bring dire consequences. ..…
“Putin has lost both of them,” Michael Emerson, the report’s co-author, said of Georgia and Ukraine. “Russia has become the enemy, which is something that was not inevitable and will be very difficult to reverse.” . ..…
In a 2017 study, the RAND Corp. concluded that in eastern Ukraine Russia “failed to achieve the leverage necessary without resorting to conventional war and outright invasion.” . ..…
UN report on human rights violations in Russian-backed separatist regions of Ukraine and in Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula has triggered fiery debate at the UN human rights council. ..…
Five years after its suspension due to its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, Russia was reintegrated on June 24 into the Council of Europe, Europe's oldest political body, which aims to uphold human rights, democracy and the rule of law across the continent. . ... It sends a negative..…
The wreckage fell 50 km from Ukraine Russia border near of Hrabove in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine during the Battle of Shakhtarsk, in area controlled by pro- Russian rebels... ..…
Deterring an increasingly aggressive Russia must start in Ukraine. . . Russia has also used Ukraine as a test-lab for its arsenal of political warfare. ..…
The promise of EU membership restructured Eastern European politics beginning in the 1990s, whereas this was never Ukraine, Russia, or Belarus. ..…
Ultimately, the only way forward from this debacle is working-class unity, not only across the Donbas-Ukraine lines, but the Ukraine-Russia border as well. . ..…
In Ukraine, Russia’s intervention came on the heels of several months of political and social upheaval in Kyiv. ... In sowing fear, fomenting separatism, and catalyzing civil war in Ukraine, Russia created there the thing it most feared: a strongly anti-Russian and..…
Even during Crimea’s recent past as part of Ukraine, Russia continued to maintain, under lease, its major naval base at Sevastopol on the Black Sea, so the connections with Russia have been continuous. . ..…
Even during Crimea’s recent past as part of Ukraine, Russia continued to maintain, under lease, its major naval base at Sevastopol on the Black Sea, so the connections with Russia have been continuous. . ..…
For example, this is the case in Ukraine, Russia and in crisis-ridden Venezuela. . ..…
Even during Crimea’s recent past as part of Ukraine, Russia continued to maintain, under lease, its major naval base at Sevastopol on the Black Sea, so the connections with Russia have been continuous. . ..…
Putin on Ukraine Russia reserves right to defend people's freedoms, incl religious beliefs. ..…
Kremlin-controlled current coverage of Ukraine, Obama's point man Ukraine, Russia wants to play in defeating Democratic in 2020.. ..…
Both Minsk agreements—the first negotiated by Ukraine, Russia, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and separatist leaders; the second by Ukraine, Russia, Germany, and France—failed to broker peace. ..…
On September 2014, the representatives of Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine, Russia and Ukraine, signed Minsk Protocol later known as Minsk-1 under the auspices of OSCE in Belarusian, Minsk. The signing was preceded by the summit of leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France,..…
'Look at what he’s done with the Ukraine. Russia was running through Ukraine when Barack Obama was president,' and Trump approved the sale of 'tank-busting missiles,' which Obama had denied, Scalise said. . ..…
then we would counsel and assist you in obtaining such jurisdiction and act on your behalf in United Nations, Ukraine, Russia, China, France, United Kingdom, and United States of America.. ..…
The keys once held the power to launch SS-19 missiles at the United States. . . . 11 Smoke billows from an explosion that destroyed a missile silo at a military base near Pervomaysk, Ukraine on January 5, 1996. . . . 12 Journalists and military officials from Ukraine, Russia, and the United..…
The words of the head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church allude to the 988 baptism of Vladimir the Great, Grand Prince of Kiev, which resulted in the Christianization of Kievan Rus', a state whose heritage Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus all claim. . ..…
Russia could defeat the UK, but if the US gets involved, all bets are off. . ... I’m not entirely sure why he did that, but the issue wasn’t that important then because Ukraine, Russia and Crimea were all part of the USSR. . ..…
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Zbigniew Brzezinski once said “without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire.” . ..…
For Ukraine, Russia is a geographic, socio-historic, cultural and linguistic reality. ..…
United States does not have vital strategic or moral interests at stake in Ukraine- Russia quarrel, much less the latest spat in Kerch Strait. ..…
Ukraine-Russia tensions . Ukraine has restricted entry of Russian citizens into its territory as part of the country’s anti-Moscow measures following last week’s confrontation off the coast of Crimea. ..…
Meanwhile, the Ukraine-Russia bilateral law on the Sea of Azov, signed by both sides in 2003 (Zakon.rada.gov.ua, April 20, 2004), complicates an already difficult situation. ... It should be noted that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has accused Russia of a manipulative..…
Ukraine also requested yet again the formation of Minsk subgroup to study modalities for the restoration of Ukraine's control on its own side of Ukraine- Russia in Russian-controlled territory. ..…
But no sooner despite the overwhelming elections for independence from Kiev in Russian provinces of Ukraine, Russia would not recognize the independent republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, Ukrainian army opened artillery fire on Sunday, shelling residential areas of the self-proclaimed..…
If only it were true, but no sooner than a high Russian official announced that, despite the overwhelming elections for independence from Kiev in the breakaway Russian provinces of Ukraine, Russia would not recognize the independent republics of Donetsk and Luhansk than “the Ukrainian army..…
STORY: UN / UKRAINE RUSSIA . TRT: 03:13 . SOURCE: UNIFEED . RESTRICTIONS: NONE . ..…
“Western governments will side with Ukraine against Russia over the incident itself, making new sanctions against Russia likely,” Alex Brideau, a Eurasia Group director for Ukraine, Russia, and central Asia wrote in a note. ..…
Sunday’s crisis is the culmination of months of Russia ratcheting up pressure on Ukrainian ships, both military and merchant, traveling across the Sea of Azov, which is a major trade artery for Ukraine. . Russia’s seizure of the three Ukrainian ships took the two erstwhile Soviet allies..…
Europe, especially Germany, is alarmed by Russian belligerence in Ukraine. Russia is moving very close to Europe’s doorstep. And now Russia is making a move into Europe’s territory in Latin America …. ..…
Europe, especially Germany, is alarmed by Russian belligerence in Ukraine. Russia is moving very close to Europe’s doorstep. And now Russia is making a move into Europe’s territory in Latin America …. ..…
Moreover, with its own pressures at home and commitments abroad, including the crisis in Ukraine, Russia has had no reason to enter the negotiating fray between Greece and its creditors. . ..…
In Ukraine, Russia’s recent actions recall the days when Soviet tanks rolled into Eastern Europe. ..…
Ukraine-Russia Tensions Rise in Church Row – Consortiumnews . By . Consortium News . ..…
Ukraine, Russia and the armed groups it backs should work to reduce the likelihood of an extended humanitarian crisis . . . Ukraine, Russia and the armed groups it backs should work to reduce the likelihood of an extended humanitarian crisis even while a political..…
Kyiv, now the capital of Ukraine, is the site of the 988 baptism of Vladimir the Great, Grand Prince of Kiev, which resulted in the Christianization of Kyivan Rus', a state whose heritage Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus all claim. . ..…
I would like to know if Melanne verveer(Georgetown hopping globalist) (Ukraine,/Russia, Russia , Russia story……) , Hillary’s fixer, and Monica know each other?? ..…
File photo of Ukrainian sitting atop armored personnel carriers near Ukrainian of Slavyansk Berlin says leaders of Germany, Ukraine, Russia and France have renewed their commitment to implementing truce deal reached in 2015 aimed at ending Ukraine.. ..…
Some of the restrictive laws appear designed to shrink the space, including online, for public debate, especially on issues the authorities view as divisive or sensitive, such as the armed conflict in Ukraine, Russia’s role in the war in Syria, the rights of LGBT people, and public..…
Yuriy Temirov, an analyst at Donetsk’s university, says that he believes some local oligarchs have been financing the rebel organization, though others are clearly supporting Ukraine. Russia certainly has its interests in Ukraine and there is strong, although disputed, evidence suggesting..…
Nevertheless, the broad outlines of a potential new order can already be discerned, although we cannot know the effects of the current crisis in Ukraine. Russia could become more influential, relations between Saudi Arabia and the United States may become strained, and Iran may emerge as..…
They are ‘sanctioning’ Russia for not respecting the Minsk Protocol (Ukraine, Russia, France, and Germany agreed on 11 February 2015 to a package of measures to alleviate the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine), when in fact, the complete opposite is true. ..…
The latest and breaking from Ukraine . Russia's sanctions cause Ukraine to collapse further . ..…
The latest and breaking from Ukraine . Russia's sanctions cause Ukraine to collapse further . ..…
After those gains, the so-called Normandy Four (Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France) reached two peace deals known as the Minsk agreements, which Western powers and conflict parties still view, at least in theory, as the only way out of the conflict. ..…
As the world saw in Georgia and Ukraine, Russia in the recent past has not hesitated to intervene directly in such cases. . ..…
Revunets said the most worrying aspect of the Russian aggression is that “it is not something extremely out of the ordinary,” and in fact not even the most destructive recent display of Moscow’s ongoing aggression on Ukraine. “Russia’s bossy behavior in the Kerch Strait did not..…
Ukraine Russia U.S. Western Europe History Germany EU institutions United Kingdom . ..…
The New York Times reports that the issue of Ukraine joining the Eurasian Economic Union “was key to inciting protests that eventually drove Ukraine’s Russia-friendly President Viktor Yanukovych from office in February. ..…
Under condemnation for continued support of armed uprising Eastern Ukraine, Russia has denied that it has either soldiers or in the war-torn country, part of. ..…
But Human Rights Watch research in many countries—including the US, Ukraine, Russia, Thailand, Canada, Kazakhstan, and Bangladesh—has shown how criminal laws relating to drug use and possession for personal use, and related law enforcement practices drive people away from lifesaving..…
However, the heightened attention surrounding the meeting in the Black Sea resort town of Sochi made Tuesday an optimal time for Putin’s remaining political opponents to release a report that they claim disproves the Russian government’s claims about the conflict in Ukraine. . Russia..…
The second reason the story is obviously false is that if the Russian government decides to invade Ukraine, Russia would not send in one small armored group unprotected by air cover or other forces. ..…
The reality is that whatever the outcome of Ukraine, Russia's relations with United States and Europe wo not return to business as usual, as they did after Russian-Georgian war.. ..…
Currently, 66% of Russian oil into Europe flows through Ukraine. . Russia has huge interests in Ukraine, from the Black Sea fleet stationed in the Crimea to millions of Russians living there and a long history of strong economic and political ties with Ukraine and will not allow the west to..…