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Gen. Petr Pavel, NATO’s Military Committee
Gen. Petr Pavel, new head of NATO’s Military Committee, answers a question during an interview with The Associated Press in Prague, Czech Republic, Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Pavel said that the western military alliance has to convince the public it has the means and will to confront Russia. A Czech general in line for a top NATO post says...
Ukraine wants ICC to probe Crimea crimes
Ukraine wants the International Criminal Court to investigate all alleged war crimes in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said in an interview. ||| The Hague – Ukraine wants the International Criminal Court to investigate all alleged war crimes in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said in an...
Economics 101: A Lesson for Ukraine
Ukraine Can Learn from Baltic States’ Experience with Reforms, says Lithuania’s Ex-Prime Minister As it struggles to fix its economy, Ukraine would do well to study the reforms successfully implemented by three fellow former Soviet republics in the Baltics, Andrius Kubilius, Lithuania’s former Prime Minister said April 16 at the...
US paratroopers to train forces fighting against pro-Russian terrorists in Ukraine
PHOTO: US Army website The US army spokesman Donald Wrenn announced that about 300 soldiers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade will be training three battalions of the National Guard of Ukraine, at the Ukrainian military zone in Yavoriv near the Polish border, Lviv Region, Western Ukraine, for six months: “Soldiers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade...
There are evidences that Russian military forces continue to operate in eastern Ukraine – Marie Harf, the U.S. Department of State
Marie Harf, acting spokesperson of the U.S. Department of State, during the Daily Press Briefing announced Russian military forces continue to operate in Eastern Ukraine, and to violate the Minsk agreements (February 12, 2015): “No amount of propaganda can make true what is not. I think we know as of early April that Russian military...
Body parts found at MH17 crash site
Dutch investigators have recovered human remains at the MH17 plane crash site in Ukraine, the Netherlands announced. ||| Donetsk – Dutch investigators have recovered more body parts at the MH17 plane crash site in Ukraine after searching a location that was previously inaccessible, the Netherlands announced on Thursday.All 298 passengers...
Is the concept of the Brics conglomerate still valid?
And then there were two. One of the extraordinary features of the global economy over the past year has been the downgrading, you might say demise, of two of the Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). ||| AND then there were two. One of the extraordinary features of the global economy over the past year has been the downgrading,...
National Security and Defense Council: OSCE monitors confirm active military drills pro-Russian militants
Kyiv, April 16, 2015. OSCE monitors have observed military exercises of “LPR” insurgents in the militant-held Uspenka village, Luhansk region, involving 10 tanks, 30 APCs and military trucks. The mission also reported that four 152-mm towed howitzers have disappeared from the concentration site where militants have previously stored their heavy...
Ukraine violence worries NATO chief
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has voiced concern over an increase in violence and movements of heavy military equipment in eastern Ukraine. ||| REYKJAVIK – NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg voiced concern on Thursday over an increase in violence and movements of heavy military equipment in eastern Ukraine, saying they were...
Economic might to decide Russia conflict
German Finance says economic strength, rather than military might, would ultimately determine outcome of West’s standoff with Russia over Ukraine ||| Washington – German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Thursday that economic strength, rather than military might, would ultimately determine the outcome of the West’s...