Section: News & Summaries

      Is Authoritarianism Staging a Comeback?
      Apr14

      Is Authoritarianism Staging a Comeback?

      New volume examines how authoritarian regimes have become smarter The late Samuel Huntington, a Harvard political scientist, famously talked about democratization as a series of wave motions forward and backward. Scholars label the burst of democratization in Latin America, Asia, and Eastern Europe in the 1980s and 1990s as the Third Wave. The...

      A View from Luhansk: Waiting for War to Return
      Apr14

      A View from Luhansk: Waiting for War to Return

      Luhansk Oblast – Ukrainians are waiting for war to start again. Since a ceasefire agreement went into effect in February, the winter has been relatively quiet in Luhansk Oblast, marred only by sporadic rockets fired from the territory of the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR). In many respects, life appears oddly normal in the small...

      Russia has command and control centers in Eastern Ukraine – U.S. ambassador Pyatt
      Apr14

      Russia has command and control centers in Eastern Ukraine – U.S. ambassador Pyatt

      U.S. Ambassador in Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt states in his official Twitter that Russia is deeply involved in the military activity of pro-Russian terrorists in Eastern Ukraine and supports the violation of the Minsk agreements (February 12, 2015). As Geoffrey Pyatt says, Russian Federation has command and control elements to coordinate military...

      The so-called ‘Normandy Four’ met in Berlin
      Apr14

      The so-called ‘Normandy Four’ met in Berlin

      The so-called ‘Normandy Four’ that consists of foreign ministers from Ukraine (Pavlo Klimkin), France (Laurent Fabius), Russia (Sergei Lavrov) and Germany (Frank-Walter Steinmeier) have met in Berlin on April 13, 2015. Foreign ministers discussed a fragile ceasefire in Eastern Ukraine, a recent flare up in fighting after a period of relative...

      New Ukraine Disrupts Old Ukraine
      Apr13

      New Ukraine Disrupts Old Ukraine

      There’s good reason for guarded optimism in the new Ukraine. President Petro Poroshenko and the parliament brought the country’s most powerful oligarch to heel in March 2015 and the justice department has set its sights on the richest oligarchs. …read more Source: Atlantic...

      Russia will officially monitor the users of social networks
      Apr13

      Russia will officially monitor the users of social networks

      Russian federal executive body that monitors all media in Russian Federation, Roskomnadzor, has the right to check the personal correspondence of users of Russian social networks such as “Odnoklassniki”, “VKontakte”, email & IM Agent Mail.ru, ICQ, and blogging platforms. The list of monitoring includes also foreign...

      Violence escalates in east Ukraine

      One Ukrainian serviceman was killed and six were wounded in separatist territories in the past 24 hours, the Kiev military said. ||| Kiev – One Ukrainian serviceman was killed and six were wounded in separatist territories in the past 24 hours, the Kiev military said on Monday, accusing rebels of using heavy weapons that were meant to have...

      Monuments of Soviet leaders were pulled down in Kharkiv
      Apr13

      Monuments of Soviet leaders were pulled down in Kharkiv

      The video is released by the Kharkiv Crisis Info Centre. On Saturday, April 11, 2015, in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv a group of masked men pulled down monuments of Soviet leaders Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Russian Nikolai Rudnev and Bolshevik leader Yakov Sverdlo. Activists who are said to be part of an anti-Russia group stated that “community...

      Cuba, US face bumpy road ahead

      Cuba and the United States just made history. Now comes the hard part. ||| Panama City – Cuba and the United States just made history. Now comes the hard part. In the first meeting of its kind in nearly 60 years, President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro sat down together for over an hour on Saturday at a regional summit in...

      Rubio to launch Republican presidential bid

      Marco Rubio will portray himself as the Republican most ready to handle threat to America in a chaotic world when he announces his presidential candidacy. ||| Miami/ Washington – US Senator Marco Rubio will make a muscular foreign policy a focal point when he announces his presidential candidacy on Monday, portraying himself as the...