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      National Security and Defense Council: OSCE says all civilians left Shyrokyne
      Jul01

      National Security and Defense Council: OSCE says all civilians left Shyrokyne

      Kyiv, June 30, 2015. Russia-backed militants have conducted a series of artillery and mortar attacks at the Ukrainian military positions, stretching from Novotroyitske to Shyrokyne, in the Mariupol sector. Militants changed tactics and started to use heavy weapons even in the daytime. According to the OSCE, civilians have left Shyrokyne. View map...

      Between Hitler & Stalin: Ukraine in World War II The Untold Story. VIDEO
      Jun30

      Between Hitler & Stalin: Ukraine in World War II The Untold Story. VIDEO

      Between Hitler and Stalin: Ukraine in World War II The Untold Story. A film by Slawko Nowytski. Narrated by Jack Palance. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre. – No single European country suffered deeper wounds to its cities, its industry, its farmland, and its humanity...

      Nuclear Credibility: What the United States Lost in Ukraine and Pakistan and the Implications for the Iran Deal
      Jun30

      Nuclear Credibility: What the United States Lost in Ukraine and Pakistan and the Implications for the Iran Deal

      As the nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 powers continue on past the June 30 deadline, the focus remains on the details of an agreement and whether the negotiators can come to a final resolution. But even as these details continue to be debated, it is important to consider the bigger picture – whether or not an agreement with Iran is...

      National Security and Defense Council: Russia-backed militants attack Ukrainian troops from tanks and Grad MRLS
      Jun30

      National Security and Defense Council: Russia-backed militants attack Ukrainian troops from tanks and Grad MRLS

      Kyiv, June 29, 2015. Russia-backed militants fired at the Ukrainian troops 20 times from 120-mm mortars, two times with 122-mm and 152-mm artillery pieces and six times from tanks. They have fired at the Ukrainian military positions near Nyzhne village, Luhansk region, from Grad multiple rocket launcher systems. View map in full size In the...

      Analysis: Black swan dangers may lurk in emerging markets

      Here we go again. A flight to haven assets has begun as Greece’s economy faces a tailspin, with concern that defaults and bank collapses could spill over to other European nations, with the impact going global. ||| BloombergHERE we go again. A flight to haven assets has begun as Greece’s economy faces a tailspin, with concern that...

      Making a Martyr of Morsi?

      The Execution of Mohammad Morsi will have wide ranging domestic and international ramifications and going ahead with it could make a martyr of a man President Al-Sisi would rather forget. The coup d état in July 2013 in which General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi overthrew Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, has seen a systematic reversion to authoritarian...

      Exposing Russian Disinformation
      Jun29

      Exposing Russian Disinformation

      Editor’s note: Ambassador John B. Emerson gave the opening remarks at “Exposing Russian Disinformation in the 21st Century,” a conference sponsored by the Atlantic Council, the European Council on Foreign Relations, and the Heinrich Böll Foundation on June 25, 2015 in Berlin. Emerson’s remarks have been shortened below....

      Ukraine, China, ISIS Top Long List of Challenges for EU, NATO
      Jun29

      Ukraine, China, ISIS Top Long List of Challenges for EU, NATO

      The unity and strategic viability of the transatlantic alliance and the US major non-NATO democratic allies, including Japan, South Korea, Australia, Israel, the Philippines, and others, will be severely tested in the years to come. As always, freedom is not free, and its price is constant vigilance.The United States and its allies face...

      Youth Platform is Transforming Eastern Ukraine
      Jun29

      Youth Platform is Transforming Eastern Ukraine

      “We brought down some Lenins in people’s heads,” says organizer Yuriy Didula Days after Ukrainian forces retook the city of Kramatorsk on July 5, 2014, Yuriy Didula and two colleagues from western Ukraine piled into a car and drove building materials into the city.”People in the east felt abandoned by the state,”...

      Gay Ukrainians flee rebel east

      Homosexual Ukrainians are being forced to flee the rebel east due to being fired from their jobs and harassment. …read more Source:...