Donald Trump Challenges Washington’s Bipartisan War Lobby: Developing a Foreign Policy for America
Doug Bandow Donald Trump has become this season’s campaign phenomenon. He’s broken all the rules. Yet he could become the Republican presidential nominee and maybe even president. GOP elites are in a frenzy. The Neoconservatives and ultra-hawks who have dominated Republican foreign policy for more than a decade are considering...
The Baltics Versus Russian Media
Latvians bans another Russian media outlet while Estonia says it will just monitor, for now, and Lithuania is the victim of a cyberattack. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Dutch Unease: Why the Netherlands Turned Away From Ukraine
The Dutch didn’t reject the EU’s Association Agreement with Ukraine because they are sympathetic to Russia. They rejected it because they believe that Ukraine, like Russia, is unprepared to join the European community. | Русский …read more Source: Carnegie Moscow...
How to Fill Ukraine’s Security Vacuum
The most feasible way to solve Ukraine’s mounting security challenge is to establish an alliance of nations stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Russian Opposition Picks Holes In State TV ’Exposé’ Of Navalny
Russian state TV says it has exposed Kremlin foe Aleksei Navalny as a paid agent of the West. Navalny and his allies in the opposition say they have exposed the program as a sloppy hit-job full of fabricated “evidence.” …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Misleading headlines over extradition of Sentsov & other Ukrainian hostages
The headlines announcing imminent release of Crimean filmmaker Oleh Sentsov and other Ukrainians held illegally in Russia were at very least premature. Statements about Nadiya Savchenko’s possible return also made the headlines earlier, but have yet to come to anything, despite the 34-year-old now being on a total hunger strike and demands...
Arrested in Ukraine for being Russian?
It is 4 months since Anastasia Leonova was arrested in Kyiv and concern is mounting that the 33-year-old Kremlin critic is in detention on ‘terrorism’ charges because Ukraine’s SBU needed a Russian. Not just one, with the grounds for detaining 2 other Russians also questionable. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30hrs, 10 April 2016
The SMM recorded a lower number of ceasefire violations in Donetsk region over the weekend compared to the number recorded on Friday, although violations continued to be recorded in large numbers along the contact line. Fewer violations were recorded in Luhansk region. The Mission came under small-arms fire in the government-controlled part of...
Ukraine From Revolution of Dignity to Government of Shame
The resignation of Ukraine’s prime minister will make constitutional reform in the country impossible and will delay reforms in many other areas. …read more Source: Carnegie...
Ukrainian Premier to Step Aside
Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s replacement will inherit a battered economy, rising violence in the Donbas. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
