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'Proxy War' With Russia Likely A Hollow Threat
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But less than 24 hours after Washington gave the Western media fodder for talks of a proxy war between NATO and Russia, the market calls their bluff. Investors are willing to bet there will be no flaring of tensions between the super powers anytime soon.

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Ukraine needs strong Western support to fend off Russia's aggression - Washington Post
Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:58 PM

Ukraine needs strong Western support to fend off Russia's aggression
Washington Post
Ms. Merkel canceled a proposed summit in Kazakhstan with Mr. Putin weeks ago because of the dim prospect that the Russian ruler would agree to respect the cease-fire his government agreed to in September. That she suddenly decided to pay court at the ...

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Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:58 PM

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Biden calls Europeans questioning sanctions against Russia 'inappropriate and ...
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US Vice President Joe Biden has called on European countries to show unity when it comes to sanctions against Russia, labeling the dissenting voices “inappropriate and annoying”, reported 'Der Spiegel', quoting the participants of the Brussels meeting.
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No Breakthrough At Ukraine Crisis Talks In Moscowby noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL)
Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:57 PM

The leaders of Germany and France
have ended more than five hours of talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin without any word of an agreement to
end the conflict in Ukraine.

I've looked into Vladimir Putin's eyes - and he won't back downby Tony Brenton
Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:57 PM

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The Russian leader doesn't want war, and he won't take on Nato, but neither will he give in to Merkel and Hollande if he thinks it's against his country's interests, says former ambassador to Russia Tony Brenton

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Ukraine crisis: No breakthrough in talks between Hollande, Merkel and Putin by Tom Parfitt
Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:57 PM

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Russia's spokesman says there will be a four-way phone-call between France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine on Sunday, after Merkel and Hollande depart talks without comment

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Kiev could face backlash over potential deal with Russia - Irish Times
Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:56 PM

Irish Times

Kiev could face backlash over potential deal with Russia
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Above all, Ukrainians who back its pivot towards the West find it hard to imagine a compromise deal that would be acceptable to them and to Putin and the militants, who rely on Russia for diplomatic and financial support and delivery of everything from ...
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Сорос: Украина на грани коллапса из-за недостаточной поддержки ЕС - РИА Новости
Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:56 PM

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Сорос: Украина на грани коллапса из-за недостаточной поддержки ЕС
РИА Новости
Европа, вероятно, потеряет Украину и, если это случится, это будет тяжелая утрата, заявил Джордж Сорос на Мюнхенской конференции по безопасности. Киев. Архивное фото. © AFP 2015/ Vasily Maximov. МЮНХЕН, 7 фев — РИА Новости. Украина находится на грани коллапса, так как ...
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МИД Украины: Киев не собирается разрывать отношения с Россией - Комсомольская правда
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МИД Украины: Киев не собирается разрывать отношения с Россией
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В субботу, 7 февраля, министр иностранных дел Украины Павел Климкин заявил, что Киев не собирается разрывать отношения с Россией. Якобы ни дипломатических, ни экономических. - Сейчас много говорят о разрыве дипломатических отношений с РФ.В случае разрыва ...
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A Munich in Moscow by paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:55 PM

Paul Goble

Staunton, February 7 – The meeting of Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande with Vladimir Putin in Moscow to discuss Ukraine without the presence of Ukrainian leaders has led many commentators to draw parallels with the 1938 Munich Conference at which Britain and France sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler in the name of “peace in our time.”

Perhaps the most thoughtful of these is offered by Andrey Piontkovsky who argues that “events in Ukraine are developing approximately according to the very same scenario” that events in Czechoslovakia did 77 years ago and strongly implies that they will continue in the same direction as well (ru.tsn.ua/analitika/frau-merkel-kapitulirovala-409494.html).

Just how far Merkel and Hollande are prepared to go for peace in their time is unclear, he argues. It could be anything from “a second Transdniestria” to the legitimation of Russian “peacekeepers” inside the borders of Ukraine and the “guarantees” Putin seeks for a “non-aligned” government in Kyiv.

But as the Russian analyst points out, the very fact of the meeting represents “an enormous political success” for the Kremlin leader. Not only does it boost Putin’s prestige and end all the talk about his international isolation, but it divides Europe and the United States as well as undermining the unity of Europe itself, two long-standing Moscow goals.

Many if not all “had hoped that Putin had been driven into a corner, but now he is again on the march. All this,” Piontkovsky says, “has become possible” thanks to the shift of position of German Chancellor Merkel who has succumbed to Putin’s latest campaign to achieve exactly those two ends.

(Piontkovsky dismisses Hollande’s presence in Moscow and his actions as not unexpected because the French president has been “zombified by Putin” for a long time and thus could be expected to follow Merkel if she made such a shift away from support for Ukraine against Russian aggression to cooperation with Moscow in the name of ending the conflict.)

Among the leaders of Putin’s latest ideological effort has been Dmitry Trenin, head of the Moscow Carnegie Center and someone “very respected in America as a pro-Western specialist,” even though in fact he is “a GRU colonel” and may now even be a general in the Russian intelligence services, Piontkovsky says.

In an interview to London’s “Financial Times,” Trenin suggested that if the United States provided weapons to Ukraine, “’the Russians’ in this case would use tactical nuclear weapons,” a statement that so frightened the Europeans that Merkel and with her Holland changed their approach and have pushed Ukraine toward acceptance of Putin’s plans.

Not only does this open a gulf between the EU leaders and the United States and between Germany and France and many other countries in the EU, but it allows Putin to achieve two other goals as well. On the one hand, it sets the stage for exactly the kind of negotiations Putin wants: by world leaders face to face over the fate of lesser powers.

And on the other hand, it shows that aggression and even the threat of aggression works for Moscow, thus guaranteeing there will be more of it. In that way too, Moscow 2015 resembles Munich 1938, even if the leaders of Germany and France are not prepared to learn those lessons or even think longer term.

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Сорос заявил, что Украина на грани коллапса - ВЕСТИУА
Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:55 PM

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Сорос заявил, что Украина на грани коллапса
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Глава Open Society Foundations Джордж Сорос заявил, что на сегодняшний день Украина находится на грани коллапса, так как не получила достаточную поддержку со стороны европейских стран. Об этом сообщило РИА Новости. Сорос отметил, что Евросоюз может потерять Украину, ...

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Three Disturbing Developments in Russiaby paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:55 PM

Paul Goble

Staunton, February 7 – At a time when each day brings fresh evidence that Russia is headed in a very dangerous direction and many news items that leave one shaking one’s head or feeling the need to say “I’m not making this up,” there are nonetheless some “smaller” stories that must not be ignored because of the long shadows they cast on the future.

Three in the last several days fall into this category and are thus mentioned here, not because they provide a comprehensive picture of what is happening but because they point to trends already well-established that are likely to gain ground and become more important in the near future.

First, the whitewashing of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and of his GULAG prison camp system continued and expanded. This week, Russian officials put up the first Stalin statue in more than 60 years, and to add insult to injury, they did so alongside statues of Churchill and Roosevelt showing the Western leaders deferring to him and in recently occupied Crimea.

The Russian media justified this by saying that this trinity created the post-war world that Vladimir Putin would like to go back to, but as one more thoughtful Moscow commentator put it, “erecting statue to Stalin in Crimea is like putting one of Hitler up in Israel” (kasparov.ru/material.php?id=54D4F38D0C440).

And related to this was the celebration rather than lamentation of the 75th anniversary of a GULAG camp, one in which millions of Russians and other Soviet citizens were incarcerated and died between the 1920s and the 1950s. Praising prison camps goes well beyond approving Stalin’s role as a wartime leader (newsru.com/russia/04feb2013/gulag.html).

Second, two Duma deputies, one from Just Russia and a second from United Russia, have turned in draft bills to allow residents to hand back ownership of their apartments to the state, a measure that the Rosbalt news agency described as part of “Operation ‘De-Privatization” (rosbalt.ru/piter/2015/02/05/1365097.html).

The specific measures do not go very far, but they simultaneously show that Russian support for privatization which many view as the foundation of a shift away from the communist system is slipping and that the Russian authorities could thus move not only with impunity but even with support to reverse privatization as a way of expanding state control in key sectors.

And third – and this may be the most disturbing of the three – a Russian rights activist told Radio Liberty that Svetlana Davydova, the Russian mother of seven who telephoned the Ukrainian embassy to warn about Russian troop movements toward Ukraine, was turned in to the authorities by her neighbors.

Olga Romanova of “Sitting Rus” told Radio Liberty that “it turns out that [her] neighbors participated in this. That is, the information about her telephone calls, contacts, and views became public knowledge not because the FSB is listening to all of us but because we all have vigilant neighbors” (svoboda.org/content/article/26829801.html).

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В Нью-Йорке прошла демонстрации против распространения русофобии - Комсомольская правда
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В Нью-Йорке прошла демонстрации против распространения русофобии
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В Нью-Йорке, перед входом в комплекс «Метрополитен-опера» прошла демонстрация против распространения в США русофобии. Она стала ответом на попытку проукраинских активистов, устроивших перед выступлениями на прославленной сцене оркестра Мариинского театра под ...
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Moscow Patriarchate Said Opening the Way for Kadyrov to Succeed Putin and Islam to Dominate Russiaby paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:54 PM

Paul Goble

Staunton, February 7 – Nikolay Podosokorsky says that the Moscow Patriarchate’s support for the right of Muslims to wear the hijab and for Ramzan Kadyrov’s demonstration in support of the Prophet Mohammed promotes “the Islamization of Russia” and thus opens the way for the Chechen leader to succeed Vladimir Putin as Russian president a decade from now.

In an article published today in the online journal “Inache,” Podosokorsky, a philologist and blogger, argues that recent statements by officials of the Moscow Patriarchate in support of the hijab and of Kadyrov’s “million man march” in defense of Islam should disturb Russians concerned about the future of their country (inache.net/signs/968).

At the time of Kadyrov’s march, which was intended as a response to the Paris march in support of the French publication “Charlie Hebdo,” Podosorkorsky posted in his blog “a scenario according to which the next president of Russia after Putin could become the current head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov” (philologist.livejournal.com/7193805.html).

He suggested there that “this could take place approximately in 2024-2025” and that “Kadyrov would then become for Russia a certain ‘Islamic’ analogue of Stalin.” This could occur, Podosorkorsky said, because the 2018 elections are likely to be “the last direct elections” in Russia and the next president will be chosen by the Kremlin-controlled Federation Council.

For that to happen, the philologist continued, Russian life will have to be “changed in a cardinal way;” and in his article today, he suggests that “over the next decade, the Russian Orthodox church will become an even more obvious weapon in the Islamization of Russia, although,” he insists, “its role already now is obvious to the unaided eye.”

Not only has the Moscow Patriarchate expressed its support for the hijab and for the Grozny march, but its senior officials have shown themselves to be promoters “not so much of Christianity as of a certain syncretic ideology with elements of totalitarianism, fuehrer worship, nationalism, paganism, Islam, etatism, magic and superficial ‘moralizing’ Orthodoxy.”

Patriarchate officials like Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov has said that “the future belongs to the Muslims” (youtube.com/watch?v=y7uMonaoHeg), Podosorkorsky points out, and Putin himself has even proclaimed that “Russian Orthodoxy is much closer to Islam than it is to Catholicism” (youtube.com/watch?v=nqyVYtWB894).

“Almost every day,” he continues, “we see various manifestations of so-called ‘Orthodox Islam,’” a when Orthodox officials say that they “do not exclude” the possibility of legalizing shariat courts in Russia (lenta.ru/news/2012/04/25/shariat/) or when Islamic leaders kiss the hand of Patriarch Kirill.

According to Podosorkorsky, “Russia is ceasing to be a secular country in front of our eyes,” and no one should content themselves with “illusions that it will as a result become Christian.” The Orthodoxy Moscow is promoting now “has very little relationship” to real Christianity and is instead “drifting toward Islam.”

“Everything begins with something small,” he continues. “Russians will be offered a unifying anti-Western ideology according to which Islam and a special ‘Russian Orthodoxy’ are the two pillars on which Russia stands. Further, television will convince us that in the capital of each region there must be both an Orthodox cathedral and a mosques.”

Then, “at the next stage,” Russian officials will argue that “for the unity of the nation it will be necessary to unite these religions into one state-forming religion and fix its status in the basic law of the law, especially since Putin has already long ago spoken about the similarity of Orthodoxy and Islam.”

“If Kadyrov really does replace Putin as president, then Patriarch Kirill could become under him ‘an Orthodox ayatollah’ but only of course until he is replaced by a mufti of more radical views.” That will open the way to the discrimination of women and many other horrible things, the Russian philologist says.

Given this threat, Podosorkorsky says, Russians must be strong in order to defend our freedom and the secular character of our state!” Indeed, he concludes, it is already time to consider forming “an all-Russian popular front against the clericalization of the country, something that could lead to its ultimate Islamization as well.

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More Ukrainian soldiers die as Hollande warns that talks could be last opportunity for peace
Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:54 PM

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Five more Ukrainian soldiers have died as fighting continues to rage with pro-Russian rebels while politicians scramble to thrash out a new peace deal.

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НАТО не будет отправлять в Украину солдат - Day.Az
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Владимир Путин: Россия не будет жить в условиях полуоккупации - Российская Газета
Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:38 PM

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Войны против России нет - есть попытки сдержать ее развитие; но наша страна не будет жить в условиях полуоккупации, заявил президент на съезде Федерации независимых профсоюзов в Сочи. Президент не согласился с мнением главы ФНПР Михаила Шмакова, что против России ...
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‘Donetsk Peoples Republic’ Declares Itself Successor to 1918 Bolshevik Statelet by paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:38 PM

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Staunton, February 7 – The so-called Donetsk Peoples Republic has declared itself to be the successor to the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic which existed nominally within Soviet Russia in February-March 1918 between Ukraine’s signing a treaty with Germany and Soviet Russia’s signing the treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

The 1918 variant presented itself as a response to the German challenge, defined itself as being part of Soviet Russia rather than part of Ukraine, and claimed territories far in excess of those it actually controlled, three things that may have recommended it to the current leaders of the DPR and their Moscow backers.

In addition to those factors which the authors of this week’s declaration stress, there is another one that should give Ukrainians and their supporters pause: After the 1918 statelet was liquidated by Moscow, its leaders moved on to Kharkiv and helped form the Bolshevik government of Soviet Ukraine.

The Donetsk-Kriovoy Rog Soviet Republic was never recognized by anyone, including Soviet Russia, but its utility for Moscow was shown when it was liquidated by Moscow and folded into the Ukrainian Soviet Republic and when many of its leaders then moved on to Kharkiv and helped form the Bolshevik government of Soviet Ukraine.

On Thursday, the Peoples Council of the DPR approved and released a memorandum stating that the current “republic” considers itself to be “the legal successor” of the 1918 one and asserting, incorrectly, that the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic had never ceased to exist de jure(inforesist.org/boeviki-predyavili-pretenzii-na-territorii-xarkovskoj-zaporozhskoj-xersonskoj-i-dnepropetrovskoj-oblastej/).

The memorandum notes that in 1918, the DKR included “the territories of Kharkiv and Yekaterinoslav guberniyas, Krivoy Rog of Kherson gubernia, part of the districts of Tavride gubernia, and the industrial regions of the Oblast of the Don Cossack Forces.” In fact, the DKR claimed all of these but did not control most of them.

And the memorandum concludes with an appeal to all “peoples living on the territory of Ukraine which at one time were ‘part of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog republic and also other oblasts … to become full-fledged subjects of ‘the Donetsk Peoples Republic,’” according to the Inforesist report.

Commenting on the DPR action, Aleksandr Kazakov, the director of the Moscow Stolypin-Struve Center for Liberal-Conservative Policy, says that this memorandum “changes the entire political configuration in the region” and thus needs to be attended to most closely (actualcomment.ru/v-dnr-prinyat-memorandum-ob-istoricheskoy-preemstvennosti.html).

Kazakov says the declaration is important because it means that it is no longer possible to call the people behind the DPR “separatists” as they are simply restoring something that existed earlier rather than breaking away from any country. But there is an even more important aspect from his point of view.

According to the Moscow analyst, it is important to recall that the 1918 DKR was created not as an ethnically-based territory but rather was “a region formed according to economic principles,” something that makes it an additional threat to the current arrangements in the post-Soviet space.

Meanwhile, another commentator interviewed by the same outlet, Viktor Zakharov, the deputy director of the Moscow Institute of Russian History, lays stress on the fact that the DKR was “initially founded as part of Russia” and there had no relationship to the Ukrainian state or anything ethnic. The same thing is true of the DPR now, he insists.

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Ukraine crisis: Do not try to scare Putin, warns Merkel by AFP
Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:38 PM

Sending arms to Ukraine will not scare Vladimir Putin, warns Angela Merkel while Francois Hollande warns it could lead to war

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Большая часть направлений сотрудничества России и НАТО заморожена - Радиостанция ЭХО МОСКВЫ
Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:37 PM

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Revolution of Dignity Art Exhibit: Images from Ukraine's Maidan, 2013-2014 by mbrady
Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:37 PM

Nearly 40 works will be displayed including pieces by Andriy Yermolenko, considered the painter of the Maidan, as well as other founders of the Artistic Barbican, Oleksa Mann, and Ivan Semesjuk; and artists from the Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (MARI): Andriy Sydorenko, Glib Vysheslavsky, and Oksana Chepelyk. Replicas of works about the Maidan will be displayed for the first time in Washington, D.C. at the Wilson Center.

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Порошенко не видит немедленной необходимости в участии миротворцев на Украине - Коммерсантъ
Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:37 PM

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Порошенко не видит немедленной необходимости в участии миротворцев на Украине
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Президент Украины Петр Порошенко не видит немедленной необходимости в привлечении международных миротворческих сил для урегулирования ситуации на Украине, передает «РИА Новости». Об этом он заявил 7 февраля, выступая на Мюнхенской конференции по ...
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Порошенко отказался от ввода миротворцев на Украину - Интерфакс
Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:36 PM

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Порошенко отказался от ввода миротворцев на Украину
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Москва. 7 февраля. INTERFAX.RU - Президент Украины Петр Порошенко заявил, что вопрос ввода миротворческого контингента займет минимум полгода, поэтому для мира в Донбассе необходимо закрыть границу с РФ. "Вы можете себе представить: по организации миротворческого ...

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Putin Rejects Attempts to Contain Russia After Peace Talks Fail - Bloomberg
Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:36 PM

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Putin Rejects Attempts to Contain Russia After Peace Talks Fail
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and French President Francois Hollande sit during a meeting in Moscow, Russia, on Feb. 6, 2015. Photographer: Dmitri Azarov/Kommersant Photo via Getty Images ...

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Ukraine conflict: UK won’t accept Russian separatist rebel gains, says Philip Hammond
Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:36 PM

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The British government will not sign off any deal to end the conflict in Ukraine if it solidifies Russian separatist gains in the east of the country, the Foreign Secretary has said.

Горшки почти разбиты - Росбалт.RU
Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:36 PM

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Горшки почти разбиты
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Судя по сегодняшним выступлениям канцлера ФРГ, Ангела Меркель и Франсуа Олланд уехали из Москвы ни с чем. Выступая на Мюнхенской конференции по безопасности, Меркель обрушилась с критикой на Россию, обвинив ее в нарушении Хельсинкского договора, Будапештского ...
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NATO, Russia fail to narrow differences in Munich talks - Reuters
Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:36 PM

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"He (Lavrov) re-stated some of the well-known Russian positions and that just confirms that we have very different assessments about what has happened ... and what caused the conflict in Ukraine and also the increased tensions between Russia and NATO," ...
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‘Donetsk Peoples Republic’ Declares Itself Successor to 1918 Bolshevik Statelet by Paul Goble
Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:36 PM

Staunton, February 7 – The so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DNR) has declared itself to be the successor to the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic which existed nominally within Soviet Russia in February-March 1918 between Ukraine’s signing a treaty with Germany and Soviet Russia’s signing the treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

On February 5 , the People’s Council of the DNR approved and released a memorandum stating that the current “republic” considers itself to be “the legal successor” of the 1918 one and asserting, incorrectly, that the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic had never ceased to exist de jure.

The memorandum notes that in 1918, the DKR included “the territories of Kharkiv and Yekaterinoslavguberniyas, Krivoy Rog of Kherson gubernia, part of the districts of Tavride gubernia, and the industrial regions of the Oblast [region] of the Don Cossack Forces.” In fact, the DKR claimed all of these but did not control most of them.

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Боевики ИГ заживо сожгли 16 иракцев - GIGAmir
Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:35 PM

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Боевики ИГ заживо сожгли 16 иракцев
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«Нет мира с НАТО!»: тысячи противников альянса вышли на улицы Мюнхена - НТВ.ru
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«Нет мира с НАТО!»: тысячи противников альянса вышли на улицы Мюнхена
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Более 2 тысяч человек приняли участие в демонстрации, направленной против проходящей в Мюнхене 51-й конференции по безопасности. 1482. Поделиться ссылкой на выделенное. Twitter · Facebook · Вконтакте · Google+. Прямая ссылка: http://www.ntv.ru/novosti/1308636/ Нажмите ...
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US and Russia clash over Ukraine's sovereignty - Irish Times
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US and Russia clash over Ukraine's sovereignty
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Mr Biden recalled his Munich address seven years ago to offer Russia a “reset” in bilateral relations that resulted in nuclear arms reductions and closer co-operation at the UN. “We all invested in a type of Russia we hoped and still hope will emerge ...
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Ukraine Live Day 355: Poroshenko Urges Rapid Ceasefire at Munich Security Council by Liveblog Team
Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:35 PM

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Russia, EU Leaders Agree to Work on Ukraine Cease-Fire - Voice of America
Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:34 PM

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KYIV, UKRAINE—. The leaders of France, Germany, and Russia have failed to reach a breakthrough peace deal on Ukraine during talks in Moscow. But they agreed to work on a shaky September cease-fire. The agreement came a day after the European ...
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A month after kosher market attack, French Jews plan an exodus by Griff Witte
Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:34 PM

SAINT-MANDÉ, France — For all her 30 years, Jennifer Sebag has lived in a community that embodies everything modern Europe is supposed to be.Inclusive, integrated, peaceful and prosperous, the elegant city of Saint-Mandé — hard against Paris’s eastern fringe — has been a haven for Jews like Sebag whose parents and grandparents were driven from their native North Africa decades ago by anti-Semitism.Read full article >>

Президент Литвы: «После Украины настанет наш черёд, но мы не боимся Россию» - ИА REGNUM
Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 9:34 PM