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Ukraine Revolution Erupts in Fresh Violence
Despite Russian reassurances that Moscow’s troop buildup along Ukraine’s eastern frontier is for a military exercise, its growing scale is making U.S. officials nervous about its ultimate aim. President Barack Obama on Friday urged ...
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The Ukrainian Revolution's Neo-Fascist Problem
Pentagon officials say they believe there could be close to 50,000 Russian troops bordering the former Soviet republic and inside Crimea, recently seized and annexed by Moscow. That estimate is double earlier assessments, and ...
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Ukraine 2014 Parliamentary Election Results
Washington got those assurances that the Russian troop buildup was only an exercise from Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu a week ago. But no one in the U.S. government knows if Putin agrees — ...
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Ukraine Revolution Places Elites Back In Power
There is no plan to involve the U.S. military in what is happening in Ukraine, even if Russia takes more territory. Ukraine borders Russia, and Ukraine does not belong to NATO, where an attack ...
Nigeria is now the largest economy in Africa, and global multinationals are queuing up to tap into its potential. Yet there are still major hurdles for the country to overcome ...
The next phase of Myanmar’s political transition has been settled. China is monitoring closely the elections. The results of the country’s Nov. 8 elections have confirmed that the opposition National ...
Commercial Drones, the next step toward evolution? Moving goods from one place to another isn’t always as simple as it sounds. Intricate supply chains are often needed to coordinate transit ...
Was Kirchnerism really defeated? In the past decade we have seen how a wave of leftist populism has shaken up Latin America. Argentina, Birthplace of Ernesto “Che” Guevara, was of ...
Russia Tries to Sow a Trans-Atlantic Divide Russia’s standoff with the United States will grow more complicated this quarter as Moscow tries to soften the Europeans on sanctions over Ukraine ...
The rift between Russia and Ankara is growing after Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet that allegedly violated its airspace. On Nov. 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the ...
U.S. military advisors will begin training five Ukrainian mechanized battalions and one special operations forces battalion in Lviv on Nov. 23, a Ukrainian presidential representative said, Sputnik reported Nov. 7. ...
Forecast Mexican organized crime groups will continue to exploit Mexico’s energy industries despite recent government efforts to stop the theft. Among Mexico’s various crime groups, organizations in the Tierra Caliente ...