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Moving to the Far Right in Hungary
Challenged by the growing popularity of the country’s far-right party, Jobbik, the Hungarian government is radicalising its agenda in order to win back disgruntled voters. April 12th 2015 is was an unneventful day in most countries; certainly not for Hungary. In local elections held in the town of Tapolca, the candidate for the Movement for...
Sentencing of Oleh Sentsov and Oleksandr Kolchenko is clear miscarriage of justice-U.S. Department of State
On August 25, 2015, John Kirby, U.S. Department of State spokesperson, made a Press Statement about sentencing of Oleh Sentsov and Oleksandr Kolchenko in a Russian military court. “The United States strongly condemns today’s sentencing in a Russian military court of acclaimed Ukrainian director Oleh Sentsov and activist Oleksandr Kolchenko...
How the West Can Stop Russia’s Escalating War in Ukraine
This month, Russia stepped up military pressure on Ukraine, concentrating about fifty thousand troops along its border with Ukraine, using its proxy militias to shell Ukrainian government positions in the Donbas, and threatening Kyiv with “a big war.”The current escalation indicates Russian discontent with Ukraine’s refusal to...
US wants to mend ties: Russia
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the United States has been sending “signals” that it wants to start mending ties with Moscow. ||| Moscow – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday the United States has been sending “signals” that it wants to start mending ties with Moscow, badly strained over the past year and a...
Ukraine Has Every Right to Play Hardball With Its Creditors
As Ukraine fights Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas, the government is simultaneously engaged in a battle with its foreign creditors for the debt relief it desperately needs to prevent a full-scale economic collapse. Ukraine owes $32 billion in foreign currency Eurobonds.To stave off disaster, the International Monetary Fund and other...
National Security and Defense Council:In the Luhansk sector, Russia-backed militants shot at Ukrainian forces near Shchastya from artillery
Kyiv, August 23, 2015. Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) eliminated a self-proclaimed “DPR” spy network in Luhansk region. SBU officers detained the organizer who was trying to recruit law enforcement officers and military men. The pro-Russian agent was personally sending informants to Russia for interviews with Russian intelligence. The detained...
Terrorists fired at Ukrainians’ positions from artillery, mortars,grenade launchers 78 times – the ATO Press Center
On August 23, 2015, the ATO Press Center reports that during the last night (August 22, 2015), the situation in the ATO zone remained relatively calm. Russian militants minimized the use of 100mm (and higher) mortars and artillery. At the same time, illegal armed groups mainly used small arms to provoke Ukrainian soldiers. “Though isolated...
National Security and Defense Council:Russia-backed militants use heavy artillery in Mariupol sector
Kyiv, August 22, 2015. Russia-backed militants used mostly heavy artillery to attack Ukrainian positions, as the strongholds near Bohdanivka, Prokhorivka, Starohnativka, Lebedynske and Vynohradne to the east of Mariupol were attacked. Residential areas of Prokhorivka came under fire from howitzers as well. View map in full size Militants also...
Ukraine Steps Up Efforts to Recover Stolen Assets Abroad
Two Kyiv-based women—a lawyer who heads a state agency created to reclaim stolen assets abroad and a social activist-turned-politician who’s made a career out of exposing official corruption—spoke August 20 in Washington about their efforts to clean up Ukraine.Olena Tyshchenko is director of the Agency for Asset Recovery at Ukraine’s...
Russia, Not Ukraine, is the Questionable Partner
In its August 12 editorial, “Shaky Ukraine: Economics and Corruption Complicate Its War,” the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette calls Ukraine a “questionable partner” because of “resistance to economic reform and use of Islamist Chechen forces.” Too bad neither charge is true. …read more Source: Atlantic...