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      Saakashvili in Odesa: When Making Waves is Not Enough
      Aug03

      Saakashvili in Odesa: When Making Waves is Not Enough

      A year after my Atlantic Council blog post on Mikheil Saakashvili’s first fifty days as Odesa oblast governor, it’s time to reexamine his record. The results are mixed: his brisk and spectacular first wins soon hit the skids. The Presidential Administration’s promised support evaporated in late 2015 and Saakashvili’s many...

      UN: Eastern Ukraine casualties highest since August 2015
      Aug03

      UN: Eastern Ukraine casualties highest since August 2015

      UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra`ad Al Hussein on Wednesday called on all parties to the conflict in eastern Ukraine to prioritize the protection of civilians and take urgent steps to de-escalate the increasingly tense situation at the contact line, warning that civilian casualty figures have risen dramatically in the past two...

      Bloomberg: Bitcoin sinks after hackers steal $65 mln from exchange
      Aug03

      Bloomberg: Bitcoin sinks after hackers steal $65 mln from exchange

      Bitcoin plunged after one of the largest exchanges halted trading because hackers stole about $65 million of the digital currency, Bloomberg reported. Bitcoin slumped 5.5% against the dollar as of 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday in Tokyo, bringing its two-day drop to 13%, according to the report. Prices also sank 6.2% on Monday, although it was not clear...

      Trump’s Dangerous Bromance with Putin Is a National Security Threat
      Aug03

      Trump’s Dangerous Bromance with Putin Is a National Security Threat

      Russia’s recent hacking attacks on the Clinton campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and the party’s fundraising committee for candidates for the US House of Representatives reflect Moscow’s view that it is in a state of political war with the United States, if not the West. Efforts to take down Western political...

      Turkish pilot admits to bombarding parliament during failed coup attempt
      Aug03

      Turkish pilot admits to bombarding parliament during failed coup attempt

      A Turkish pilot staff captain has admitted that he was the pilot of an F-16 fighter jet which bombarded the parliament building on the night of the failed coup attempt of July 15, according to Turkey`s English-language leading newspaper Hurriyet Daily News. Pilot Staff Cpt. Huseyin Turk confessed in his testimony that Brig. Hakan Evrim, the...

      AvtoKrAZ fulfills state order on Defense Ministry`s requirements in 2016
      Aug03

      AvtoKrAZ fulfills state order on Defense Ministry`s requirements in 2016

      Kremenchuk Automobile Plant PJSC AvtoKrAZ, one of the largest companies producing heavy-duty trucks in Europe, fulfilled in late July, the state order on the Ukrainian Defense Ministry`s requirements for 2016. According to a contract concluded between AvtoKrAZ and the Defense Ministry in late 2015, various models of special purpose KrAZ vehicles,...

      How the International Media Enables Russian Aggression in Ukraine
      Aug03

      How the International Media Enables Russian Aggression in Ukraine

      If anyone had attempted to report on “German-backed forces” in Nazi-occupied France or “pro-Soviet forces” during the Prague Spring, they would have been dismissed as either hopelessly misinformed or deeply disingenuous. While local collaborators and convenient euphemisms were plentiful in both instances, there was never...

      Finance Ministry fails to raise funds at weekly T-bill placement auction
      Aug03

      Finance Ministry fails to raise funds at weekly T-bill placement auction

      The Ukrainian Finance Ministry failed to attract funds for the state budget at a weekly scheduled auction on T-bills placement on August 2, according to a posting on the ministry`s website. During the auction, the placement of bonds in the national currency was planned and investors filed one application for internal treasury bonds with a...

      Ukraine receives NATO`s demining equipment worth EUR 1 mln
      Aug03

      Ukraine receives NATO`s demining equipment worth EUR 1 mln

      Ukraine has received the next batch of material and technical assistance from NATO for the humanitarian work of mine clearance, the Mission of Ukraine to NATO wrote on Facebook. ”The State Emergency Service of Ukraine has received from the NATO program `Science for Peace and Security` the next batch of material and technical assistance for the...

      Ukraine reports 3 WIA, 1 slightly injured in past 24 hours
      Aug03

      Ukraine reports 3 WIA, 1 slightly injured in past 24 hours

      Three Ukrainian soldiers were wounded and one suffered slight injuries while fighting in eastern Ukraine in the past 24 hours, according to a spokesman for the Ukrainian Presidential Administration. ”There were three wounded in action (WIA), while one suffered slight injuries,” Andriy Lysenko, administration spokesman for Anti-Terrorist Operation...