Is Putin Preparing a New Attack on Ukraine?
Observers have greatly feared that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin would start a small regional war this August. Russia has moved up its State Duma elections to September 18. Although only Putin’s parties are allowed to win, he has a predilection for “small and victorious wars” to mobilize his people. …read more Source:...
Russia continues to torment Ukrainian it drove half-crazy through torture
Ukraine has repeated its request for the extradition of Ukrainian political prisoners Stanislav Klykh and Mykola Karpyuk, amid increasing concern for Klykh’s psychological state after torture in Russian captivity and as Klykh faces cynical new charges for supposed ‘contempt of court’. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
Turkey Is Descending into Repression and Conflict, Taking Its Value to NATO with It
Doug Bandow Turkey’s brief democratic moment is ending. The rise of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Development and Justice Party (AKP) in 2002 signaled the collapse of the militarized secular republic created by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. The recent failed coup effectively killed the semi-liberal democracy that briefly replaced Kemalism. NATO is...
War Clouds Gathering Over Crimea
Russia claims that Ukraine sent a sabotage team into Crimea over the weekend, armed with bombs and military equipment. Russian president Putin has pulled out of the “Normandy” talks in response. Ukrainian president Poroshenko denied any involvement in an attack on Crimea and responded to the charges by placing his military on high...
MOSCOW TRYING TO RETURN THE WORLD TO THE LOGIC OF THE COLD WAR.
On the question “GHN” answered international relations specialist Irakli Toronjadze. “…the biggest geopolitical mistake of the twentieth century, was the fact that the Soviet Union had not been disarmed, and on its territory was not introduced the occupation rule. Let us hope that this error will not lead to a new Cold War, the free world will...
Pundits Dissect Baku Summit
The leaders of Russia, Iran, and Azerbaijan talked transport and energy projects, while the question of how to deal with resurgent Turkey loomed as a backdrop. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russian Security Council Meets Over Tighter Crimea Security
August 11, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Where It’s Illegal to Make Noise in Churches and Cemeteries
Who are the Russians being tried for ‘hooliganism’ under Article 213 of the criminal code? …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia’s pre-planned ‘Ukrainian incursion’ on Russian-occupied Crimea
If Russia wanted to make its claims of an attempted Ukrainian terrorist attack on Russian-invaded and occupied Crimea credible, it should not have blocked the last remaining independent Internet sites days before the alleged attack. Bringing in massive amounts of military hardware prior to the supposed event also seriously lowers plausibility....
Defendant & Defence Excluded from ‘Trial’ of Crimean Tatar Leader
The court currently preventing Crimean Tatar leader Akhtem Chiygoz from attending his own ‘trial’ has now refused to allow prominent Crimean Tatar rights lawyer Emil Kurbedinov to defend him. Nikolai Polozov, a Russian lawyer who is also representing Chiygoz, calls what he is seeing in Crimea “total lawlessness”. …read more Source:...
