Analyst: Response To Russian Incursion Will Be 'Defining Moment' For NATO
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President Obama heads to Europe this week to take part in the NATO summit. The alliance is weighing how to respond to Russia's incursions into Ukraine.
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NATO leaders are expected this week to set up a rapid-response force to defend against potential Russian aggression.
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Атлас мира - 02 сентября, 2014by Андрей Шароградский, Александр Гостев
Психология бедности, всемирная неделя воды и судьба сикхов Афганистана
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Проект Европа - 02 сентября, 2014by Ярослав Шимов, Александра Вагнер
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Mixed Signals on Second Migrant Wave at US Borderby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
In Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Methodist pastor Jaser Davila said if the Central American migrants he meets daily in this border city are right, more travelers are on their way to the U.S from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Davila's humanitarian relief group is anticipating another influx like the one that has brought tens of thousands of unaccompanied children to the U.S. since last October - twice the number as the previous year. At the makeshift migrant shelter Davila helps to run, the migrants tell him they know people who are en route, or that they hope their families will be able to join them as soon as possible. He’s heard the information so often, he's taking it seriously. “Basically, it’s gone down a lot,” Davila said. “But the people we’re in touch with said more people are coming, more families, etc. So maybe for now it’s gone down a little, but the expectation for them is that the number of people en route to here will increase again.” The number of Central Americans apprehended at the border peaked in June. Detention centers were so full, a steady stream of undocumented adults and unaccompanied minors who were arrested by border patrol or turned themselves in were given an immigration court date and released. Despite a drop in apprehensions in July, farther south on the border, in McAllen, Texas, Sister Norma Pimentel has been busy for months dealing with the Central American influx. The relief center she runs for Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley saw 70 migrants arrive in one day last week. But Pimentel said that unlike what Pastor Davila is hearing on the Mexican border, there has been no word from the travelers she meets that more migrants are on their way. "They don't know when people are coming and we don't know either. It could very well be that in October or later on we might have a great number of people. I think Border Patrol expects numbers to increase in the near future, but we have no clue as to what's going to happen," said Pimentel. Shelter and humanitarian workers speculate about the variables that drive crossings at certain times of the year. They trade anecdotes and theories. Weather. School schedules. Gang recruitment cycles. Still, none of them anticipated this year's wave. Sara Melendez, a spokeswoman with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol whose work district includes Laredo, said her office isn't aware of an imminent second wave similar to this year. "[That's] not to say things won't change," Melendez said. "Right now it's just business as usual."
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Putin Orders Expedited Building of New Russian Spaceportby webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday ordered that construction be sped up on a multi-billion-dollar spaceport in Russia's Far East, which he said would break reliance on the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and launch future missions to the Moon and Mars. Putin flew in a helicopter over the sprawling building site in Vostochny at a time when conflict with Ukraine, maker of Zenit and Dnepr rockets, is highlighting the fragility of Russia's dependence on former Soviet republics in defense and space. Building a new launchpad on its own soil is central to Putin's effort to reform a once-pioneering space industry hobbled by years of budget cuts and a brain drain in the 1990s. “Our own space infrastructure and modern network of cosmodromes ... will allow Russia to strengthen its standing as a leading space superpower and guarantee the independence of space activities,” Putin said at Vostochny, near Russia's border with China. Major expenditure Taking to task officials, Putin said construction was lagging behind by up to three months, and the 6,000 workers currently at the site are half as many as needed. “In the future, the capacity of the cosmodrome will be expanded ... to be used to realize programs to explore the Moon, Mars and other space objects,” he said. Russia has already plowed some 100 billion rubles into construction of the new spaceport, Putin said, to replace the Baikonur site, which it has leased from Kazakhstan since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. He said another 50 billion rubles is earmarked for the project through 2015, which is hefty spending for a budget strained by the cost of annexing Ukraine's Crimea region and an economy stuttering under Western sanctions. Despite Russia's current financial woes, a senior official tasked with overseeing the space industry vowed the country would not back down from investment in space. “Despite the decrease in budgetary funds and the pressure on Russia from sanctions, this plan is unchangeable,” Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin told reporters. In July, Russia launched its first new design of a space rocket entirely built within post-Soviet Russia's borders, from the northern military cosmodrome of Plesetsk. A potential commercial rival to rockets made by Arianespace of France and Californian-based SpaceX, a heavier version of the modular Angara launcher is designed to replace Russia's workhorse Proton rocket, which has suffered an embarrassing litany of failures. While it is due to be tested at Plesetsk later this year, Russia hopes to launch the new rockets from Vostochny, where proximity to the equator would allow for a 20-percent heavier payload on launch vehicles.
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NATO Leaders Set to Gather on Russia, Middle Eastby webdesk@voanews.com (Al Pessin)
The leaders of the 28 NATO countries will gather for the first time in two years starting Thursday in Wales, in western Britain, with an agenda very different from the one they had for their last summit. When NATO leaders last met in Chicago, Afghanistan was at the top of their agenda, and Russia was considered a partner in addressing issues like terrorism and nuclear weapons proliferation. This year, responding to Russia's annexation of Crimea and its invasion of eastern Ukraine will top the agenda. The alliance faces a "changed world," according to NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. "We are faced with the reality that Russia considers us an adversary, and we will adapt to that situation," said Rasmussen. That means a greater NATO military presence in member countries close to Russia, like troops in Lithuania, and a new force designed to strike hard and fast in response to an attack on any member. But NATO has also been clear that it won't go to war with Russia to protect non-members, like Ukraine - drawing a “red line” that Xenia Wickett of London's Chatham House says may be counter-productive. "One of the things that's going to be interesting not just at the summit but more broadly is whether actually NATO tries to be a little bit more ambiguous with its red lines in the future, which actually gives it a little bit more freedom to act, but also makes potential adversaries a little bit more nervous about acting because they don't quite know when they're going to elicit a strong response," said Wickett. NATO leaders will also discuss countering the threat from the Islamic State group that has taken over parts of Iraq and Syria and terrorized local people and foreigners. The United States has been bombing the group. And the U.S. and other NATO members have been providing humanitarian aid. Afghanistan will still be a topic, as Taliban forces are becoming more assertive. NATO's combat mission there will end in December, and officials need Afghanistan's final approval for an agreement on a future advisory and training force. Even just a few months ago, there was frequent questioning of whether NATO is still relevant in the post-Cold War world. Such talk has been rightly silenced, says Chatham House director Robin Niblett, who chairs an alliance advisory group. "This is a summit in which all NATO members and their partners need to step up and start to communicate to themselves and externally and to their publics. This is a dangerous world, and there is a purpose to this alliance," said Niblett. Experts and NATO leaders hope that the severity of the conflict over Ukraine has convinced people in alliance countries to put more money toward defense, and to fund rapid response capabilities designed to confront new threats to Europe and North America.
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