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Information Resistance: TOP-10 Russian war criminals #FreeSavchenko
The Nuremberg Trial of 1946, the Tokyo War Crimes Trials of 1948, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda of 1994, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (NV) – are the just reactions of the world community to the crimes committed against innocent civilians and entire nations. Through the fault of government...
National Security and Defense Council: Ukrainian Armed Forces withdrawing Uragan rocket launchers from the contact line
Kyiv, March 6, 2015. Following the removal of BM-21 “Grad” multiple rocket launchers yesterday, the Ukrainian military has started to withdraw more powerful “Uragan” missile systems today, stated Colonel Andriy Lysenko, ATO spokesperson, at a press-briefing at Ukraine Crisis Media Center. Members of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission observed...
Ukraine: The High Cost of Ignoring Russia’s Land Grab in Crimea
Report documents rights abuses; Kremlin ‘greatest security challenge,’ says Atlantic Council’s Herbst The apparent US indifference toward the annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in February 2014 amounts to giving Russian President Vladimir Putin a green light to commit similar acts of aggression against other countries,...
NATO’s Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow about Russia’s aggression in Ukraine
NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Alexander Vershbow spoke at the Interparliamentary Conference for the Common Foreign And Security Policy (CFSP) and Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) in Riga, Latvia, on March 5, 2015. Alexander Vershbow wrote on his official twitter that he is honoured to discuss the cooperation between ESDP...
The Kremlin’s Secret War: Soldiers’ Families Shattered and Silenced
A Vice News Documentary Shows What Russia Is Hiding—and How Since last summer, when President Vladimir Putin’s government first deployed major units of Russian conventional army troops to fight in its war against Ukraine, the Kremlin has used state secrecy, propaganda, intimidation, and violence to conceal the story. Police have obstructed...
The Kremlin’s Secret War, and the Silent Soldiers’ Families It Has Shattered
A Vice News Documentary Shows What Russia Is Hiding—and How Since last summer, when President Vladimir Putin’s government first deployed major units of Russian conventional army troops to fight in its war against Ukraine, the Kremlin has used state secrecy, propaganda, intimidation, and violence to conceal the story. Police have obstructed...
Nemtsov killing: witness ‘threatened’
Authorities in Ukraine say the sole witness in the killing of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov has received death threats. ||| Kiev, Ukraine – Authorities in Ukraine say the sole witness in the killing in Moscow of prominent Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov has received death threats since returning to her family home in Ukraine.The...
US and Allies Risk War with Russia by a ‘Hesitancy on Ukraine’
Wilson: Only the US Can Lead in Defending Europe Against Putin’s Rising Ambition The United States and its allies must confront the aggressive actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin because failing to do so will escalate his ambitions—perhaps to the point of forcing a war with NATO, the Atlantic Council’s Damon Wilson told the US...
Before Russia’s Next Offensive, Obama Should Take the Lead
Burns: Give Arms to Ukraine, More NATO Cover to Baltics—and Leadership for Europe President Barack Obama has given space for Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel to lead recently in the Western response to Russia’s war on Ukraine. But it’s now time for the US president to take the reins back, writes former Undersecretary of State...
Burns: Before Russia’s Next Offensive, Obama Should Take the Lead
Provide Weapons to Ukraine, More NATO Cover to Baltics—and Leadership for Europe President Barack Obama has given space for Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel to lead recently in the Western response to Russia’s war on Ukraine. But now, writes former Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, it’s time for Obama to take the reins...