Serbia Says it Won't Impose Sanctions on Russia
Belgrade, Serbia: Despite pressure from the European Union, Serbia will not impose sanctions against Russia or curb its food exports to that country, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said Friday. After the US and the EU slapped sanctions on Russian ...
Ukraine: Russia's Convoy a Set-up for Provocation
Ukraine's prime minister says Russia has sent a large aid convoy into war-torn eastern Ukraine to arrange a provocation. Speaking in a live interview on national television, Arseniy Yastenyuk said Russia's plan in sending two hundred half-empty trucks into ...
Ukraine accuses Russia of 'invasion' as aid trucks move in
Izvaryne (Ukraine) (AFP) - Ukraine accused Moscow of invading after Russia unilaterally sent the first part of its mammoth aid convoy into eastern Ukraine on Friday, warning against any attacks on the trucks. Moscow described a week-long delay in allowing ...
Ukraine accuses Russia of invasion after aid convoy crosses border
Moscow, which has thousands of troops close to the Russian side of the border, warned against any attempt to "disrupt" the convoy it said was a purely humanitarian operation; but it did not say what action it might take if Kiev's military intervened.
Russia, in sanctions retaliation, bars some Japanese citizens
MOSCOW, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Russia on Friday banned several Japanese citizens from entering the country, expanding retaliatory measures against countries which have imposed sanctions over the crisis in Ukraine. Russia's foreign ministry said in a statement ...
Russia keeps up pressure on McDonald's with new sanitary inspections
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian authorities extended their scrutiny of McDonald's to several regions on Friday, carrying out inspections at a number of restaurants run by the U.S. fast-food chain, amid a standoff with the West over Ukraine. The inspections are ...
Russia aid convoy on the move toward Luhansk
Trucks carrying Russian aid for eastern Ukraine have started moving toward the Russian-separatist-held city of Luhansk, Russia's foreign ministry said Friday. In a statement on the foreign ministry's website Russia accused Ukraine of deliberately delaying ...
Russia Ramps Up Information War in Europe
BERLIN—Dmitry Tulchinskiy, bureau chief here of Russian state news agency Rossiya Segodnya, shares a quiet hallway with a travel company and a chess club. By next year, that office could get cramped. The agency's Berlin staff is supposed to grow from two ...
Russia checks more McDonald's after closing 3
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's food safety agency said Thursday that it was checking McDonald's restaurants around the country, a day after several branches of the chain were shuttered in Moscow. The pressure on the American chain, which has 435 restaurants in ...
Tensions Between Russia and the West Could Surface in Moldova
The competition between Russia and the West could destabilize Ukraine’s small but strategic western neighbor: Moldova. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin is scheduled to travel to the country’s breakaway territory of Transdniestria to ...
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I am delighted that David Cameron has adopted the position long argued in these columns that Britain should form a strategic partnership with Iran. He should do the same with regard to Russia and China and , in general, move to fully embrace multipolarity Independent 17th August, 2014 Britain must p ...
Walking Through
I recently watched Newsies with my friend, Juliet. It brought me back to my 13-year-old self. I watched that movie so many times as a teen. Yes, mostly because of my crush on Christian Bale (which is still alive and well today, thanks for asking). I’d like to think it also had something to do with t ...
WSJ: Rusia intensifică războiul informațional cu SUA lovind în inima Europei
“Cu imaginea suferindă dupa izbucnirea conflictului din Ucraina, Rusia depune eforturi suplimentare pentru a restabili, moderniza și extinde canalele sale mass media din străinătate” – scrie The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Accentul a fost pus pe Germania, scrie jurnalistul Anton Trojanowski. Joi, guv ...
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Bank VTB : Sanctions against Russia will not affect VTB
(4-traders.com) Baku / 22.08.14 / Turan: The activities of the subsidiary bank VTB Azerbaijan will not suffer from sanctions against Russia, the head of the Subsidiaries Department, Senior Vice President of VTB Mikhail Yakunin told the local media today. According to him, the EU and the United State ...
Germany Approves Sale of Utility’s Oil and Gas Unit to Russians by MELISSA EDDY
By MELISSA EDDY The decision comes despite the tensions between the European Union and Russia because of the crisis in Ukraine. Published: August 22, 2014 at 4:00AM from NYT Business Day http://ift.tt/1to0hMg via IFTTT
(My Failed Attempt at) Watching the Flag Lowering Ceremony at the Tian’anmen Square
(This is the second post by Chunhua Chen, a Ph.D student of Political Science at GWU. This summer, she is doing field research for her dissertation in China supported by a Sigur Center Grant for Asian Field Research for summer 2014.) My stay in Beijing this time is going to end next week. So yesterd ...
NATO and Ukraine: Links & comments 8/22/14
The Ukraine, Corrupted Journalism and the Atlanticist Faith by Karel van Wolferen, a respected Dutch journalist, for the Unz Review. Van Wolferen thinks NATO has outlived its usefulness. Once an alliance to protect western Europe from the Red Army, it is now, he wrote, a means by which the United St ...
UK - Fracking - the bubble waiting to burst.
The shale boom is a bubble waiting to burst as economics of extraction falter and the trickle of bad environmental news starts to swell Jeremy Leggett Monday 18 August 2014 theguardian.com http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2014/aug/18/uk-energy-dependence- THE FIVE HIDDEN COSTS OF F ...
Coconut-Ginger Moscow Mule
This ain’t your mama’s Moscow Mule. OK, so this isn’t actually a Moscow Mule at all. It turns out that a mule – also called a “buck” – is a mixed drink with ginger beer and citrus. You can do lots of fun variations on this theme. A Moscow mule is a buck made with vodka. Since vodka comes from Russia ...
