If Russian in Trump national security scandal is UN’s new anti-terror chief – just how murky can things get?
The UN building … but what’s really going on inside? ShutterstockAs if there wasn’t enough controversy surrounding Sergey Kislyak. The Russian ambassador to the US at the centre of the Trump national security storm appears likely to become the United Nations head of counter-terrorism, probably at Under Secretary-General level....
Russian in Trump national security scandal to be UN’s new anti-terror chief – just how murky can things get?
The UN building … but what’s really going on inside? ShutterstockAs if there wasn’t enough controversy surrounding Sergey Kislyak. The Russian ambassador to the US at the centre of the Trump national security storm is set to become the United Nations head of counter-terrorism, probably at Under Secretary-General level. The irony...
Kleptocracy Daily: May 16, 2017
News Investigators looking into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia will be able to pursue leads by tapping into a huge database of suspicious financial transactions maintained by FinCEN. President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko to Block Russian Social Networks
May 16, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Even Remembrance of the Crimean Tatar Deportation prohibited in Russian-occupied Crimea
Crimean Tatars are for the fourth time facing bans and likely arrests on the 73rd anniversary of the Deportation in 1944 of the entire Crimean Tatar people from their homeland …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Shut Down the ‘Russia-gate’ Farce
The level of lunacy we’ve reached can be measured by the brouhaha over the presence of Russian photographers in the Oval Office during Sergey Lavrov’s visit: no US photographers were allowed, but the Russians somehow got in and the Paranoid Brigade went into overdrive. They may have planted “bugs” there! No, this wasn’t nutjob...
Launch of the EPC “Ukraine Forum”
Recent developments in Ukraine and its relations with the EU …read more Source: European Policy...
Trump Calls on Russia and Ukraine to Make Peace
May 12, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Getting Beyond Minsk: Toward a Resolution of the Conflict in Ukraine
Photo credit: dimbar76 / Shutterstock.com The military conflict between Ukraine and Russia remains unresolved. The Minsk diplomatic process, which will be three years old in September 2017, committed Russia to a withdrawal of military forces from the Donbas region and committed Ukraine to constitutional reform and providing special status for the...
Eurovision’s Glitzy Pageant Jars with Pain of Ukraine Conflict
May 11, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
