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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 ...
Analysis Though many mysteries still surround the recent crash of a Russian airliner over the Sinai Peninsula, some explanations of what happened are more likely to be true than others. ...
Analysis The balance of economic power in Mozambique has undergone a major change, rekindling dissatisfaction with the country’s entrenched ruling elite. The change means the East African country’s longtime ruling ...
Forecast A recent agreement to resolve some historical grievances will not seriously assuage deep anti-Japanese sentiment in South Korea. South Korea will likely ignore U.S. and Japanese calls to send ...
Tanzania’s new president, John Magufuli, and the country’s first female vice president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, were sworn into office Nov. 5, News 24 reported. Magufuli won the election in October ...
On Saturday, Chinese President Xi Jinping will have a 20-minute meeting with his counterpart from across the Taiwan Strait, President Ma Ying-jeou, followed by dinner in Singapore’s Shangri-La Hotel. Both ...
Several years into a Chinese economic slowdown, the Latin American economies that relied on China to buy up their key exports are feeling the pain. With less hard currency coming in, ...
It is a shift in US strategy against terrorist movement Daech. Although the White House ensures that its “strategy in Syria has not changed,” the US has given the green ...
Dana Chocron is a specialist of Middle East political landscapes. She is specialized in the Levant. She holds a BA in Government,Security and Diplomacy from the prestigious school of IDC. ...