Posted by seumasach on May 1, 2014
1st May, 2014
The US has raised concern over a decision by its Gulf ally Bahrain to sign an investment cooperation deal with Russia at a time when US and European governments are imposing economic sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis, an official said.
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Posted by seumasach on May 1, 2014
Edward Lozansky, President of the American University in Moscow
Martin Sieff,Senior Fellow of the American University in Moscow
30th April, 2014
The second wave of US sanctions against Russian officials and the heated rhetoric exchange between the leaders of both countries, with each side blaming the other, show without a doubt that US-Russia relations have bottomed out.
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Posted by seumasach on April 21, 2014
17th April, 2014
On April 17, Russian President Vlaidmir Putin held a question-and-answer session with Russians in a studio audience, from those calling in or texting, and from a video link in the Crimean city of Sevasotpol. Here is a running transcript of his remarks, via the Kremlin’s Web site.
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Posted by seumasach on April 19, 2014
Nothing should impede normalisation of Russia’s relations with the West: Putin
19th April, 2014
President Vladimir Putin on Saturday said nothing should impede the normalisation of relations between Russia and the West, after ties hit a post-Cold War low due to the stand-off over Ukraine.
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Posted by seumasach on April 19, 2014
19th April, 2014
Ukraine’s government is prepared to conduct constitutional changes that would grant more say to local governments on budget and tax policy and give the Russian language a special status in efforts to overcome the current crisis in the country, Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk said Friday.
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Posted by seumasach on April 18, 2014
Ukrain’s illegal but acting government doesn’t seem that reliable, no doubt being hostage to “non-existent” neo-fascist groups. Oh well, time for more sanctions against Russia.
18th April, 2014
Despite calls for a peaceful dialogue in the document on Ukraine adopted in Geneva, the coup-imposed Ukrainian Foreign Minister said it will not affect the “anti-terrorist” operation in the East of the country and the troops will remain there.
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Posted by seumasach on April 16, 2014
16th April, 2014
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov revealed that CIA director John Brennan was in Kiev last weekend. One of his advisors told the newspaperVzgliad that Brennan had not come to oversee the “anti-terrorist” operations conducted by the Ukrainian authorities, but to seek information and rescue twenty Greystone Ltd mercenaries of whom there has been no news.
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Posted by seumasach on April 16, 2014
Raniah Salloum, the foreign affairs editor of Spiegel Online, reports that he “just saw tanks that switched side[s] in #kramatorsk. Now anti Kiev.”Raniah Salloum, the foreign affairs editor of Spiegel Online, reports that he “just saw tanks that switched side[s] in #kramatorsk. Now anti Kiev.”
16th April, 2014
Journalists on the ground in the city of Kramatorsk in northern Donetsk Oblast are reporting that armored personnel carriers are driving around flying the Russian flag.
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Posted by seumasach on April 14, 2014
Hot-head Hague here scuppers any hopes that the Brits have learnt anything from the debacle in Syria and continues to dig himself into a very deep hole.
14th April, 2014
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Posted by seumasach on April 14, 2014
14th April, 2014
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov said on Monday Ukraine’s Russian-speaking eastern regions should be involved in drafting the constitution that should be put to a referendum, mooted by Kiev, on the type of state Ukraine should be.
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Posted by seumasach on April 14, 2014
Ukraine Acting President: Not Opposed to Referendum on Regional Autonomy
14th April, 2014
A day after threatening a full-scale military operation to drive pro-Russian militants out of a string of eastern Ukrainian cities seized over the weekend, the country’s acting president offered an apparent olive branch Monday, saying he wasn’t opposed to a countrywide referendum on possibly granting regions greater autonomy.
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