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Чехия выступила за отмену санкций
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Президент Чехии Милош Земан назвал наказания Евросоюза против России безусловно недейственными. Он объяснил, что данные меры западных государств не дали должного итога и их нужно отменить. Руководитель страны помимо прочего выразил надежду, что наказания ...
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Crimean Authorities Place More Activists In Pretrial Detention
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 11:43 AM

A court in Crimea has jailed a local resident, Oleksandr Kostenko, on charges of attacking a Ukrainian security officer in Kyiv during the February 2014 protests in Kyiv against pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych.

Merkel to meet Obama to resolve Ukrainian differencesby Staff and agencies
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 11:43 AM

Russia | The Guardian

German and US leaders face potential split over arming of Ukrainian fighters to combat Russian-backed separatists

Angela Merkel will meet Barack Obama at the White House on Monday, as the two leaders aim to resolve a potential split over arming Ukrainian fighters so they can combat Russian-backed separatists.

СМИ утверждают, что Ангела Меркель выдвинула ультиматум президенту Путину - Радиостанция ЭХО МОСКВЫ
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 11:43 AM

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СМИ утверждают, что Ангела Меркель выдвинула ультиматум президенту Путину
Радиостанция ЭХО МОСКВЫ
Ему предложено до среды определиться с отношением к мирному плану по Украине, разработанному в Германии и Франции, сообщает Wall Street Journal со ссылкой на дипломатические источники. По их словам, если Россия на Минском саммите отвергнет новую "дорожную карту", ...
WSJ: Меркель предъявила ультиматум Путину, грозя новыми санкциями и американским оружиемМосковский комсомолец
WSJ: Берлин выдвинул Москве ультиматумBFM.Ru
WSJ рассказала об ультиматуме Берлина ПутинуSlon.ru - Редакция деловых новостей
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Rebuilding Chechnya’s Literary Heritage--Online
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 11:42 AM

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After years of violence that saw the destruction of untold volumes in Chechnya’s libraries, the North Caucasus Service’s new online library aims to revive its national literature.

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The Ukraine crisis is too grave for Cameron to ignoreby Con Coughlin
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 11:42 AM

A transatlantic rift is the last thing the West needs in these unstable times, says Con Coughlin

EU Backs Ukraine Peace Talks But Hawks Urge No End to Russia Sanctions by The Moscow Times
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 11:41 AM

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EU foreign ministers lined up behind a Franco-German effort to end the Ukraine war on Monday but some said the EU must maintain sanctions on Russia until the situation in eastern Ukraine improves.

NYT: дух «холодной войны» витал на конференции в Мюнхене - Газета.Ru
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 11:41 AM

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NYT: дух «холодной войны» витал на конференции в Мюнхене
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«Холодная война» – это история, но в минувшие выходные ее дух витал на конференции по безопасности в Мюнхене, пишет The New York Times. Как отмечает газета, канцлер Германии Ангела Меркель и американский сенатор Джон Маккейн извлекли очень разные уроки из ...
Мнение: Меркель едет в США не за инструкциями, а договариватьсяРИА Новости
Меркель, перед визитом в США, дала Путину время до среды - WSJЛІГА.net
Встреча в Минске заставит Обаму определиться с вооружением УкраиныПодробности
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Ukraine crisis: Vladimir Putin warns of 'a big catastrophe' as Kiev disrupts pro-Russia rebels
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 11:22 AM

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Vladimir Putin has warned Ukraine is on a “dead-end track fraught with a big catastrophe” if it continues with its military operations in the east of the country ahead of key peace talks later this week.

Putin Blames U.S. 'Interference, Double Standards' For Rise Of IS, Ukraine Conflict
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 11:21 AM

Russian President Vladimir Putin has used a planned visit to Egypt to make a scathing criticism of the U.S.-led international coalition against the Islamic State (IS) group, accusing the United States and its Western allies of being responsible for the Syrian crisis as well as the military conflict in Ukraine.

Germany Says Minsk Summit On Ukraine Not Yet Certainby noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL)
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 11:20 AM

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has raised doubts about the prospects of a four-way Ukraine peace summit on February 11, suggesting it is not yet certain the proposed gathering in Minsk will take place.

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G20 Finance Chiefs Seek to Spur Global Economic Growthby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 11:19 AM

A leading international economic organization says governments around the world are not doing enough to implement a series of policies once agreed upon to boost economic growth in the coming years. The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, in its annual growth report released Monday, urged countries to follow through on "comprehensive growth strategies" such as increasing labor productivity and becoming more competitive and innovative. The report was published as finance ministers and central bankers from the world's 20 leading economies gathered in Istanbul for Monday's opening of a G20 meeting aimed at coordinating action to spur economic growth. Participants will discuss efforts toward meeting their commitment made last year to lift the global economic output by two percent in 2018. Concerns of the G20 ministers about major economies running at different speeds, and monetary policies diverging will also be on the agenda. The meeting will continue Tuesday. Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan said Sunday tackling sluggish growth and giving low-income nations a greater voice are among the priorities for Turkey's G20 presidency. Babacan said pushing G20 members to meet previous reform commitments would be key. Fulfilling pledges made at November's G20 summit in Brisbane could add more than $2 trillion to the global economy and create millions of new jobs over the next four years, IMF chief Christine Lagarde said in a blog post Friday. Another top G20 concern is whether the United States alone can sustain the global economy as most of the world slows. Influencing the G20 ministers' plans are the Greek government's demands to restructure its debt, cheap oil-influencing inflation and growth forecasts, and a strengthening dollar threatening emerging economies. Also on the agenda will be a request by France to discuss the fight against terrorist financing, an important topic for Turkey as fighting with Islamic State militants continues just over its southern borders in Syria and Iraq.

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Ukraine crisis: EU suspends Russia sanctions ahead of Minsk talks - latest - Telegraph.co.uk
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 11:18 AM

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Ukraine crisis: EU suspends Russia sanctions ahead of Minsk talks - latest
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The move appears to be at odds with Philip Hammond's comments this morning that "until we see Russia complying on the ground, withdrawing troops, closing the border, stopping the flow of weapons, we can't relieve the pressure in any way" (see 10.06).
EU puts off fresh Russia sanctions awaiting Minsk talksWTNH
EU presses peace plan for Ukraine, but hawks want Russian sanctions to stayThe Globe and Mail
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EU delays fresh Russia sanctions ahead of Ukraine talksby Bruno Waterfield
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 11:18 AM

France's foreign minister says sanctions demanded by Britain to maintain pressure on Russia put on hold pending peace negotiations in Minsk

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China Executes Mining Tycoonby webdesk@voanews.com (Shannon Van Sant)
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 10:58 AM

Window On Eurasia -- New Series

A Chinese billionaire was executed Monday after a court found him guilty of multiple murders and leading a mafia-style gang. He is only the latest high profile businessman with links to former security chief Zhou Yongkang to fall under China's crackdown on corruption. Mining tycoon, Liu Han, his brother and three associates were put to death Monday morning. Liu Han had amassed a billion-dollar fortune as head of Hanlong Group, the largest private enterprise in Sichuan Province. He invested in minerals, electricity, energy, finance and real estate. Liu, 48, had been found guilty of 13 crimes, including including murder, organizing casinos, running a mafia-style gang and selling firearms. Joseph Cheng, a professor of International Relations at the University of Hong Kong, said Liu’s execution affirms Chinese President Xi Jinping’s willingness to go after “big tigers” in his crackdown on corruption in China. “The execution of an extremely rich tycoon is very significant in the eyes of the Chinese people. Increasingly in recent years people in China believe that rich tycoons can buy a lot of influence,” Cheng said. China’s Ministry of Public Security began its investigation into LiuI in March of last year. Rise to power Following his execution Monday, China’s state-run Xinhua news agency published a lengthy description of Liu’s rise to power, which according to Xinhua was helped by corruption, bribery and murder. Xinhua said nine people died at the hands of Liu’s henchmen, and five of those through gun shootings. But human rights activists, like William Nee at Amnesty International, have raised questions about China’s investigation into Liu and his brother Liu Wei. “I think there are causes for concern. Liu Wei said in court that he was tortured while being interrogated, and he was beaten every day. So under Chinese law, and under criminal law, any evidence that is taken through torture should be excluded," Nee noted. "But it seems that in this case that probably wasn’t the case.” Nee said the investigation raises broader questions about China’s corruption crackdown, in which government officials can be placed under shanggui, a form of extra-legal detention where investigation subjects are not allowed contact with friends or family, have no access to legal defense and are sometimes tortured. Nee said that none of the targets of China’s crackdown on corruption will have protection under rule of law. “The fact that so many people are investigated outside of the formal criminal justice system is a key concern, especially because one of the key components of a fair trial is having proper legal representation,” he stated. China’s Caixin magazine reported that Liu had had business dealings with Zhou Bin, the son of disgraced politician Zhou Yongkang. Zhou, China's former security chief and Politburo member, has been accused of serious violations of party and organizational discipline and secrecy. He is awaiting prosecution.

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Ukrainian Scenario in Baltic Countries ‘Impossible,’ Former Kremlin Advisor Says by paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 10:58 AM

Paul Goble

Staunton, February 9 – Aleksandr Sytin, a former researcher at the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies (RISI), a think tank which was set up by Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, advises the Kremlin and pushed for Moscow to seize Crimea and intervene in the Donbas, says that “a Ukrainian scenario” is “impossible” in the Baltic countries.

(For background on Sytin and RISI, see my “Russian Think Tank that Pushed for Invasion of Ukraine Wants Moscow to Overthrow Lukashenka,” Eurasia Daily Monitor, 27.I.15 (jamestown.org/programs/edm/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=43458&cHash=7a202945ac364185e5021fc5dbf28fde#.VM4OIY0o7IU).)

Sytin told Novy Region 2’s Kseniya Kirillova that “there are no objective bases for the realization of a ‘Donbas’ scenario in the Baltic countries” and that talk about “’the infringement’ of the rights of Russian speakers there “is to a significant degree invented” and artificial (nr2.com.ua/blogs/Ksenija_Kirillova/Ukrainskiy-scenariy-v-stranah-Baltii-nevozmozhen-ekspert-90019.html).

What the Baltic countries do face, he continues, is the impact of Russian propaganda on those Russian speakers. “The majority [of them] watch Russian television, and in certain regions as a result have been crated two parallel information spaces. It is quite hard to solve this problem because if these countries try to limit broadcasting, Gazprom will increase the price of gas.”

What Moscow did in Crimea and is doing in the Donbas, Sytin says, is no precedent for Latvia’s Latgale. Although there is “a not small percent of nationalists and people who love the USSR, especially among military retirees and their descendants,” their numbers aren’t so large as to be in a position to “destabilize” the situation.

Moscow’s complaints about the status of non-citizens in Latvia and Estonia are also misplaced, Sytin argues. It is true that those two countries did not give automatic citizenship to people who had been moved in during the Soviet occupation, but with time and especially after the two joined the EU, they adopted state naturalization programs intended to end this status.

These programs have had the result of a continuing decline in the number of people without citizenship because now anyone can become a citizen who speaks the national language, expresses a desire to obtain citizenship and passes an examination on the history and constitution” of the respective countries.

At present, there are 282,876 non-citizens in Latvia (13 percent of the population) and 87,833 non-citizens in Estonia (6.5 percent). Those numbers may not fall in the future as fast as in the past, Sytin says, because today, many non-citizens see that status as an advantage rather than a disadvantage.

Unlike the citizens of these two countries, non-citizens from them can travel to Russia without a visa; and unlike Russian citizens, they can travel to the European Union without restriction. As a result, “many prefer to remain without citizenship for strictly pragmatic (including business) reasons.” It is thus not the problem many in Moscow believe it is.

Another non-issue, Sytin says, is that of the status of the Russian language. “Officially Russian in the Baltic countries is a foreign language,” and “the sphere of its use continues to decline.” But despite Moscow media reportage, it is not banned and “there is in Latvia no obligatory requirement to speak only Latvian.”

Nonetheless, Russian continues to be widely used. There is a lively Russian-language media; Russian books, published in the Baltic countries and in Russia, are widely available; Russian television is available everywhere, and there are Russian theaters. And because many businesses are linked to the Russian market, there is a demand for Russian speakers.

That has led to the following interesting development, he says. Because there are fewer opportunities to learn Russian in state educational institutions, there has been a growth in the number of private institutions offering Russian language instruction – and the governments are in no way restricting this.

But what is more important is this: many Russian speakers in the Baltic countries “consider themselves patriots” of those countries and “the majority of Russian speakers there do not feel any nostalgia for the Soviet past.” Like Estonians and Latvians around them, they can’t imagine that they would have the opportunities they do had they remained inside the USSR.

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Киев ввел «пограничный режим» в Донбассе, в Харьковской и Херсонской областях - ИА REGNUM
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 10:55 AM

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Киев ввел «пограничный режим» в Донбассе, в Харьковской и Херсонской областях
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Кабинет министров Украины с 10 февраля вводит на время проведения «АТО» пограничный режим для ряда районов и населенных пунктов Донецкой, Луганской, Харьковской и Херсонской областей. Соответствующий шаг определен постановлением правительства «Некоторые ...
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Киев введет пограничный режим рядом с районами АТО и КрымомПолит.ру
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Separatists Fire Grad Missiles From Vuhlehirsk
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 10:55 AM

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Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine have continued military operations against government forces. On February 8, separatist forces in the town of Vuhlehirsk, near Debaltseve, were filmed by RFE/RL's Current Time programme firing missiles from a Grad rocket launcher. The Ukrainian military said on January 29 that its troops had retreated from Vuhlehirsk, and the town has suffered huge damage in recent fighting. (www.currenttime.tv)

Angela Merkel assailed from all sides in drive to pacify Russia and US on Ukraine by Simon Tisdall
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 10:54 AM

Russia | The Guardian

The German chancellor has emerged as Europe’s lone champion, but she faces a daunting and potentially thankless task

In what could prove a watershed moment in her long political career, Angela Merkel is playing go-between this week with two angry superpowers while trying to deliver peace to a European continent terrified that the Ukraine conflict could expand into an all-out, east-west war with Russia. She faces a daunting and potentially thankless task.

The German chancellor has emerged as Europe’s lone champion in the dread-filled months following Vladimir Putin’s calm-shattering invasion and annexation of Crimea almost one year ago. In part through her dozens of one-to-one telephone conversations with Russia’s bellicose president, in part because of Germany’s unmatched trade and energy ties with the country and in part because others have failed to step up, Merkel has come to be viewed as Europe’s foremost Ukraine mediator, conduit and fixer. When she travelled to Moscow to see Putin last Friday, the fact that François Hollande, the French president, accompanied her was all but irrelevant. Hollande’s is merely a walk-on part. His presence at the table strengthened Merkel’s mandate as de facto spokesperson for the EU, but added little to her leverage with Putin.

Vladimir Putin's Egypt visit sends message to USby Patrick Kingsley in Cairo
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 10:53 AM

Russia | The Guardian

Russian president’s arrival in Egypt allows both countries to signal that their foreign policies are not to be dictated by others

Russian president Vladimir Putin flies to Cairo for a two-day visit on Monday, in a move nominally aimed at bolstering bilateral ties with Egypt that also allows both countries to send pointed messages to the US.

As Russian and western diplomats struggle to reach a peace deal over the conflict in Ukraine, Putin will spend Monday evening at Cairo’s opera house. In meetings on Tuesday, the day before the resumption of Ukraine peace talks, Putin is expected to hold discussions about ending the use of the US dollar in bilateral trade between Egypt and Russia. Collaboration between a Russian and Egyptian newspaper is also reported to be scheduled for discussion.

Ukraine Live Day 357: Huge Blast In Donetsk Last Nightby Liveblog Team
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 10:53 AM

Yesterday’s live coverage of the Ukraine conflict can be found here. An archive of our liveblogs can be found here. For an overview and analysis of this developing story see our latest podcast.

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For the latest summary of evidence surrounding the shooting down of flight MH17 see our separate article: Evidence Review: Who Shot Down MH17?

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Глава МИД Франции: ЕС отложил введение новых санкций по Украине - РИА Новости
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 10:52 AM

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Глава МИД Франции: ЕС отложил введение новых санкций по Украине
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Глава МИД Франции Лоран Фабиус заявил, что введение новых санкций ЕС, связанных с Украиной, будет зависеть от ситуации с Мариуполем и минских переговоров, намеченных на 16 февраля. БРЮССЕЛЬ, 9 фев — РИА Новости. Главы МИД стран-членов Евросоюза одобрили ...
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Moscow, the Third Rome, May Suffer Fate of the Second Rather than the First, Latynina Suggestsby paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 10:52 AM

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Paul Goble

Staunton, February 9 – Yuliya Latynina argues that Russia, many of whose residents view it as the third Rome, may suffer the fate not of the first Rome but of the second, a fate that cannot be reassuring to many of them because in the end the residents of the second Rome in Constantinople “considered that Islam was better than the West.”

In a 3300-word essay in “Novaya gazeta” over the weekend, the Moscow commentator and Ekho Moskvy host said that it is becoming obvious that under Vladimir Putin, Russians are being encouraged to think of themselves as “the heirs of spiritually rich Byzantium,” the traditional “second Rome” in Russian thinking (novayagazeta.ru/arts/67159.html).

But Latynina argues that there are seven important reasons why Russians ought to avoid thinking that they are in a situation like the second Rome and should be questioning a government that promotes that notion, however much they believe in Filofey of Pskov’s 1510 claim that “Two Romes have fallen; the third stands; and there will not be a fourth.”

First, as she points out, “’Byzantium’ as a country never existed.” It called itself the Roman Empire or the Empire of the Romans.” In antiquity and for the rulers in Constantinople, she points out, “empire” referred to a single state rather than being one among many. As a result, there is no agreement on when it was created, something “unique” in world history.

Second, as Latynina says, Byzantium, the “second Rome,” despite being the heir to classical Greece and Rome, “did not creat anything” that people today take seriously. “If you are not a specialist,” she continues, “you won’t hve read anything” produced by it, “not great novels, not great poets, and not great historians.” It was a truly “fruitless” enterprise.

Third, “the Empire of the Romans never developed a mechanism for the legitimate transfer of power.” As a result, it was constantly weakend by struggles for power and thus was not in position to defend its interests against threats from outside its borders.

Fourth, and related to the third factor, Byzantium lacked an effective bureaucracy capable of ruling the country. Fearful of being challenged by almost anyone, its rulers periodically destroyed the institutions of the state and thus prevented the establishment of “a stable code of rules and a mechanism of administration.”

“The Empire of the romans did not develop any rules. Its aristocracy was servile, haughty, and limited in its ability to act.” It took pride in itself as the heir to Greek and Roman culture, but its members never learned how to conduct more modern wars as the Franks and Normans did.

Fifth, Latynina continues, Byzantium was “a quasi-socialist” state in which the government had its hand in almost everthing and blocked the emergence of effective markets. There was only one sector in which its anti-market approach didn’t have an impact and that was where it was most needed: economic empires within it that could challenge the state itself.

Sixth, Byzantium was obsessed with “spirituality,” an obsession that led to attacks on groups within the society that left the country in capable of dealing with challenges to it from the outside. When Byzantium faced the rise of Islam, its leaders concluded that the most important task was to root out the Monophysites, something that weakened the state still further.

And seventh – and this is the most striking thing of all – when Byzantium fell, it disappeared without a trace, a fate that has overtaken other empires only when as in the case of the Incas a force from the outside with much more modern military capacity unexpectedly arrives.

Can it be, Latynina asks rhetorically, that Russia’s current rulers really want the country to share the fate of Byzantium? “This is Freud in pure form,” she says, because in trying to mobilize the Russian population, the Kremlin is talking about not the Roman Empire but about a state that failed and wasn’t even able to hold on to its name.

“The high spirituality of the Empire of the romans, as is well-known, ended when even on the eve of its collapse,” Latynina points out, fanatics from the church and from among the population “did not want to count on the help of the West. Better Islam, they decided, than the West.”

One might observe about Latynina’s parallels between Byzantium and Putin’s Russia what George Kennan once said about the Marquis de Custine’s classic work, “Russia in 1839.” That book may not have been a completely adequate account of the Russia of Nicholas I,but it was, Kennan observed, a very good picture of the Soviet Union of Leonid Brezhnev.

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'Political comedy': Poroshenko's 'Russian army evidence' raises eyebrows - RT
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 1:36 AM

'Political comedy': Poroshenko's 'Russian army evidence' raises eyebrows
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Russian soldiers cannot use their passports while on active service – they must hand them in. Everybody who has ever lived in Russia knows this. Indeed, even contract soldiers are forced to hand in theirs while on army business and, like the troops ...
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Помощь Украине сохранит мир в Европе - Грибаускайте - УКРАИНСКАЯ ПРАВДА
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 1:35 AM

Помощь Украине сохранит мир в Европе - Грибаускайте
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"Поддержка Украины сегодня - всеми доступными средствами - это поддержка и помощь свободе и миру для каждого в Европе", - сказала Грибаускайте. По ее словам, Литва оказывает помощь Украине, потому что также видит угрозу на своей границе, в частности, постоянные учения ...

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Leaders of Germany, Russia, Ukraine and France to hold Ukraine summit - USA TODAY
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 1:35 AM

Leaders of Germany, Russia, Ukraine and France to hold Ukraine summit
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The leaders of Germany, Russia, Ukraine and France are set to meet in Belarus next week to continue to work to resolve the crisis in Ukraine, the spokesman of German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday. Steffen Seibert said preparations are underway ...

UPDATE 2-Britain says Russia's Putin acting like "tyrant" over Ukraine - Reuters
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 1:35 AM

UPDATE 2-Britain says Russia's Putin acting like "tyrant" over Ukraine
Reuters
LONDON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Britain accused Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday of acting like a "tyrant" over Ukraine, but said Kiev's forces could not defeat Russia's army on the battlefield and that only a political solution could end the ...

Russia Investors On 'War Watch' Wednesday - Forbes
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 1:34 AM

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Russia Investors On 'War Watch' Wednesday
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The market's preferable day trade into Russian equities may have impressed last week, but this week promises to be a doozy. Leaders from the so-called Normandy Four — Germany, France, Ukraine and Russia — will sit down yet again to hammer out a ...
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Arctic War Games: With Oil Prices Down, Russia Cuts Spending on Everything ... - Motley Fool
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 1:34 AM

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'New Iron Curtain emerging along the border of Ukraine and Russia' - RT
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 1:33 AM

'New Iron Curtain emerging along the border of Ukraine and Russia'
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70 years after the Yalta Conference that marked the final months of the World War II, Russia is facing a threat of isolation, with President Putin being “demonized” – something that British professor Richard Sakwa considers to be “extremely dangerous.”.

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Monday February 9th, 2015 at 1:33 AM

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Пять шагов, которые вернут мир в Украину
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Три выходных дня дипломатия работала на полную катушку. Американцы и европейцы прилетали в Киев, в Москву, встречались на Мюнхенской конференции по безопасности. Украина - центральный вопрос повестки дня. Последние детали планируют утрясти 11 февраля.

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G-20 to Focus on Spurring Global Economic Growthby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 1:33 AM

Finance ministers and central bankers from the world's 20 leading economies are gathering to discuss coordinating action to spur global economic growth. The G-20 ministers concerns about major economies running at different speeds and monetary policies diverging will top the agenda at talks Monday and Tuesday in Istanbul. Influencing the ministers' plans are the Greek government's demands to restructure its debt, cheap oil influencing inflation and growth forecasts, and a strengthening dollar threatening emerging economies. Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan said Sunday tackling sluggish growth and giving low income nations more voice are among the priorities for Turkey's G20 presidency. Babacan said pushing G20 members to meet previous reform commitments would be key. Fulfilling pledges made at November's G20 summit in Brisbane could add more than $2 trillion to the global economy and create millions of new jobs over the next four years, IMF chief Christine Lagarde said in a blog post Friday. 'Not sustainable' Another top G20 concern is whether the United States alone can sustain the global economy as most of the world slows. Last week, Canadian Finance Minister Joe Oliver cited the stalled eurozone, slowdowns in China and India, and geopolitical crises in Ukraine, Iraq and Syria as key risks. "Though America is carrying the world economy at the moment, that is simply not sustainable," he added. U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew also said the United States could not be "the sole engine of growth" and a senior U.S. official told reporters Washington's message at the meeting would again be that Europe is not doing enough. Also on the agenda will be a request by France to discuss the fight against terrorist financing, an important topic for Turkey as fighting with Islamic State militants continues just over its southern borders in Syria and Iraq.

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Russia's Putin Suggests US Bent On World Domination - RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 1:32 AM

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UN Chief Insists Yemeni President Be Reinstatedby webdesk@voanews.com (Edward Yeranian)
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 1:31 AM

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with Saudi King Salman and his top advisers in Riyadh Sunday to discuss the recent power-grab in neighboring Yemen by Houthi rebels. As popular demonstrations mount against the Houthi rebel group across parts of Yemen, Ban is demanding recently resigned President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi be reinstated. “There must be a restoration of the legitimacy of President Hadi's. We have to address this through all the Security Council and [Gulf Cooperation Council] Initiatives,” he said. The former president and many of his top ministers remain under house arrest and Houthi militiamen occupy a number of government offices. Ban denounced the Houthi's seizure of power, which culminated several days ago in the naming of a new interim parliament and five-man presidential council. He blasted the Houthis for creating a dangerous power vacuum in the country. “The situation is very seriously deteriorating, with the Houthis taking power and making this government vacuum in power,” he said. UN search for settlement The U.N. secretary-general also called for the Houthis and all other Yemeni parties to cooperate with his special envoy Jamal Ben Omar to negotiate a political settlement to the country's political crisis. Veteran Saudi editor and publisher Jamal Khashoggi told VOA that the U.N. and the international community are trying to pressure the Houthis into making an equitable agreement. “I feel that there is plan being built up today, it is not final, but it constitutes the following: that Jamal Ben Omar will continue in Yemen to work out a solution between various parties and make sure that an open conflict does not start," Khashoggi told VOA. "At the same time, Saudi Arabia, along with the GCC and Ban Ki-moon are literally saying that what happened in Yemen is unconstitutional and illegitimate,” he added. Khashoggi added that the “Houthis have the upper hand,” but that a joint international and Gulf Cooperation Council position “will help Jamal Ben Omar in getting the Houthis to reach an agreement with the other Yemeni parties.” The Saudi editor termed the negotiations a “process in the making.” In addition to blasting the Houthis for Yemen's political crisis, Ban also blamed former President Ali Abdullah Saleh for playing a role in the current crisis. Saleh stepped down in 2012 after months of mediation by the GCC.

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Costa Concordia trial: Captain Francesco Schettino awaits verdict that could put him in jail for 26 years
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 1:31 AM

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Three years and one month after he crashed the Costa Concordia on to rocks off the Tuscan coast with the loss of 32 lives, former captain Francesco Schettino will learn this week if he is to spend most of his remaining years in prison.

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Monday February 9th, 2015 at 1:31 AM

К 125-летию со дня рождения поэта. История тайной записи пастернаковских разговоров и авторского чтения в квартире московского артиста Владимира Балашова. Нобелевская премия с запозданием в 30 лет и другие сюжеты.

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Washington Week: Focus on Ukraine Crisisby webdesk@voanews.com (Michael Bowman)
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 1:30 AM

The coming week will see continued focus on the crisis in Ukraine, beginning with President Barack Obama hosting German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House later Monday. It remains to be seen whether a renewed international push for peace in Ukraine will bear fruit, and whether the United States will send lethal military assistance to Kyiv. As Ukrainian forces battle pro-Russian rebels, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France, and Germany spoke by telephone to discuss a Franco-German plan to revive a shattered peace effort. The leaders are expected to meet in Minsk, Belarus Wednesday in hopes of restoring last year’s cease-fire that never fully took hold and broke down entirely in recent weeks. At a security conference in Munich, Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States and its allies are united in backing Ukraine. “We will stand together in support of Ukraine and in defense of the common understanding that international borders must not, cannot, be changed by force in Europe or anywhere else,” said Kerry. Other officials stressed the need for dialogue. Germany’s foreign minister said, “permanent security in Europe can only come with Russia, not against Russia,” while France’s foreign minister said, “nobody wants to get trapped in a raging war that is in no one’s interest.” Kerry denied any split between the United States and its major allies on Ukraine. “I keep hearing people trying to create one (a division)," he said. "We are united, we are working closely together. We all agree the challenge will not end through military force. We are united in diplomacy. But the longer it takes, the more the off-ramps (solutions) are avoided, the more we will be forced to raise the costs on Russia and its proxies.” The time has come to back up such words with concrete actions, according to Republican U.S. Senator John McCain, who says Russian President Vladimir Putin “wants to dominate Ukraine.” “Some say that Ukraine cannot defeat Russia militarily," said McCain. "That is the wrong question. The right question is, if we help Ukrainians increase the military cost to the Russian forces that have invaded their country - how long can Putin sustain a war that he tells his people is not happening? That is why we must provide defensive arms to Ukraine.” So far, the Obama administration has neither committed to nor ruled out lethal military assistance to Ukraine, an option that to date has public backing only in Washington and Kyiv.

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'Russia's growing threat': After Ukraine, fears grow that Baltic states could be Vladimir Putin's next targets
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 1:30 AM

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The West must stand up to Russia over Ukraine or Europe could descend into a major war for the first time since 1945, diplomats warned today as efforts to negotiate peace hung by a thread.

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Is This the End of NATO? by John R. Schindler
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 1:29 AM

The last few days have brought depressing developments for those who care about European freedom. Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande went to Moscow to present a Ukraine “peace plan” that actually had been suggested to them by Vladimir Putin. Unsurprisingly, this went nowhere andMerkel has already pronounced that there is no military solution to the Russo-Ukrainian War, a message that was amplified by the Munich Security Conference, Bavaria’s best-catered talk-shop, where the lack of Western resolve to confront Russian aggression was made abundantly clear. In Munich, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, a rare European NATO leader who has a clear picture of events, told Merkel that the choice was “surrender or arm Ukraine” — to no effect.

To be fair to Europe, Washington, DC, has hardly been telegraphing resolve either. My proposal to send Ukraine defensive weaponry, which looked like it might be in the offing, by this weekend looked dead, though this White House sends so many mixed messages one can never be exactly sure. Late this week, the Obama administration unveiled its new National Security Strategy, amid less than fanfare, with the execrable Susan Rice explaining in “remain calm, all is well!” fashion that things are really much better globally than they look. This White House’s new foreign policy mantra is Strategic Patience, which seems to be the been-to-grad-school version of “don’t do stupid shit.” Since nobody inside the Beltway is taking this eleventh-hour effort to articulate Obama’s security strategy seriously, it’s doubtful anyone abroad, much less in Moscow, will either.

It’s therefore unsurprising that European leaders are in full-panic mode about what Putin will do next. The serious possibility that the Chekist-in-Charge in the Kremlin will seek more provocations, and possibly a major war, to achieve his strategic aim of establishing Russian control over the former Soviet space and therefore dominance over Eastern Europe, is reducing weak-willed Western leaders like Merkel and Hollande to political incoherence.

It seems to have never occurred to them, nor Obama and his national security staff either, that crushing the Russian economy with sanctions might bring more, not less, aggression from Putin,even though that was an obvious possibility. Jaws dropped this week when Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who until recently was NATO’s civilian head, stated that it is highly likely that Russia will soon stage a violent provocation against a Baltic state, which being NATO countries, will cause a crisis over the Alliance’s Article 5 provision for collective self-defense. Rasmussen merely said what all defense experts who understand Putin already know, but this was not the sort of reality-based assessment that Western politicians are used to hearing.

There are two core reasons for Western collapse of will before Putin’s decidedly modest aggression in Ukraine. The first is that Western and Central Europe have so substantially disarmed since the end of the Cold War. Hardly any European NATO countries spend the “required” two percent of GDP on defense, and no amount of American scolding about it seems to make any difference. As a result, European NATO militaries, with few exceptions, possess a mere shadow of the combat power they had two decades ago. Several of them have abandoned tanks altogether, while even Germany has so cut back its combat power that there are only four battalions each of armor and artillery in the whole Bundeswehr.

Not all the fault for this sorry state of affairs lies in Europe. Here America has played an insidious role too, encouraging spending on niche missions for the Alliance at the expense of traditional defense. Hence the fact that Baltic navies have considerable counter-mine capabilities — this being an unsexy mission that the U.S. Navy hates to do — yet hardly any ability to police their maritime borders against intruding Russians. To make matters worse, since 2001 the Americans have encouraged NATO partners to spend considerable amounts of their limited defense budgets on America’s losing war in Afghanistan.

But the moral collapse of Europe is even worse than the military collapse. All the armaments in the world do no good when the will to use them is absent. Since the Cold War’s end, Western Europeans have convinced themselves of many things that simply are not true. Their optimistic worldview, which really is the highest form of the WEIRD Weltanschauung, abandoned any notion that monsters might still exist, and many Europeans, including most of their leaders, seem unable to accept the new reality that Vladimir Putin has forced upon them. Yet denying that Russia aims to change the European order, and will use force to do so, will not stop Kremlin misdeeds, actually it will only encourage more Russian aggression.

To be blunt, I see little evidence to date that major European leaders are willing to wake up to this new reality. In the event of Russian provocation against NATO, which is highly likely soon, it’s very possible that the Atlantic Alliance will unravel completely. Putin may achieve his strategic victory with hardly a shot fired. In such an event, I have no idea how Obama, or any American president, could send U.S. troops to die to defend a Europe that is so flagrantly unwilling to defend itself.

Two-and-a-half millennia ago, the Chinese sage Sun Tzu counseled that “the best military policy is to attack strategies; the next to attack alliances; the next to attack soldiers,” and Putin is doing exactly this. He has no need to undermine NATO strategy, since none exists in reality, while he continues to hack away at the foundations of the Western Alliance through Special War, particularly espionage and subversion.

It’s significant that, just after Greece elected an openly pro-Russian government, whose defense and foreign ministers are major Putin fans, the rising left wing in Spain announces that, should it come to power, it will take Madrid out of NATO altogether. Cyprus’s announcement on Friday that it will offer its military bases to Russia should be seen in proper strategic context. If this chipping away at the foundations of European security by the Kremlin continues, there may be no big war for Russia to have to win.

Which is good news for Putin, since what makes craven European conduct towards Moscow so appalling is the fact that Russia is winning from a position of profound political, economic, and especially military weakness. In military terms, despite the shortcomings of European NATO, Russia lacks the ability to win any major war against the West. Moscow frankly would have a tough time subduing Ukraine quickly, much less marching westward with haste.

Outside the nuclear realm, where the Kremlin likes to rattle radioactive sabers, terrifying Europeans, Russian military strength is not especially impressive. Moscow is in the middle of a big military modernization program that will not be complete until the early 2020’s, and at the moment its ground, air, and naval forces can be assessed as far from ready to win any major war in Europe.

A look at Russia’s ground forces is revealing. Far-reaching reforms of the whole bloated army, which spent nearly two decades languishing in semi-Soviet mode — from organization to training to manning, everything — that commenced in 2007-09 are bearing fruit, but significant challenges remain. On paper, the active Russian army looks impressive, with slightly over forty maneuver brigades, many with modern weapons. But many of those brigades consist of conscripts who are not trained to NATO standards, and this army must face not just Ukraine and the West, but guard the vast border with China, while keeping a lid on the Caucasus and providing post-imperial order in parts of Central Asia.

In other words, Putin cannot engage in a major war without a substantial recall of reservists to flesh out the order of battle, and that may not be popular. The Russian population has endured the economic downturn, blaming the West rather than Putin for the collapse of their currency and much of the economy, and the Kremlin’s anti-Western stance is supported by most Russians. Yet this has something to do with the fact that Putin has kept truly painful costs low so far. Soldiers killed in Russia’s not-very-secret war in Ukraine are professionals. If bigger numbers of teenaged conscripts and thirty-something reservists start dying, Putin may find his war of choice is suddenly less popular.

For all the Alliance’s military shortcomings, NATO can deter Putin’s aggression until 2020 at least, with current forces. However, deterring the Kremlin’s Special War, which I have long counseled the West to get serious about, may prove a more serious challenge. The West has the ability to keep a rampaging Russia restrained. Sending defensive weaponry to Ukraine would be a wise start, while so is bolstering NATO forces on the Alliance’s vulnerable frontier, well beyond the modest efforts now, finally, being undertaken. What no defense budget or military strategist can provide, however, is political will. If Europe cannot regain enough self-confidence to resist Putin, it will lose everything, sooner than you think.

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Former UCF QB Kyle Israel encounters chaos in Russia - Orlando Sentinel
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 1:27 AM

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He couldn't speak Russian but somehow sensed the bandits, as he called them, weren't going to hurt anyone. They walked calmly into the newly leased office in downtown Moscow and told Israel and a handful of others working there to leave. "There was no ...

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Greek Prime Minister Won’t Seek to Extend Bailoutby By NIKI KITSANTONIS
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 1:27 AM

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In an address to Parliament on Sunday, Alexis Tsipras promised to carry out his campaign pledges to roll back austerity.

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Op-Ed Contributor: Don't Arm Ukraineby By JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 1:24 AM

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For America to supply Kiev with weapons would only make Russia a more reckless adversary.

Нервная работа: президент Эстонии сорвал телеинтервью в прямом эфире - НТВ.ru
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Путин рассказал об условиях, при которых возможна стабилизация на Украине - Коммерсантъ
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 1:12 AM

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Survey: Gay Vietnamese Come Out Early, But Face Battles at Home by webdesk@voanews.com (Lien Hoang)
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 1:12 AM

Gay Vietnamese are coming out at an early age and doing so in a more welcoming environment, according to a new survey. Of those who participated in the online study, 78 percent had come out already, and 74 percent recognized their sexual identity between ages 10 and 20. The results are not an accurate sample of Vietnam overall, because the average age of respondents was 22. But ICS, an advocacy group for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, which released the data Jan. 27 said it was promising that 56 percent of people in the survey needed less than a year to accept their sexuality. “It was an interesting surprise because in my time, it took years,” ICS director Tran Khac Tung said at the study’s unveiling. “But the youngsters take less than a year.” LGBT Vietnamese seem to spend less time struggling with their sexuality because, advocates say, Vietnam has become a more tolerant place. When asked about how the country has changed since 1998, four out of five survey participants said they saw positive developments. The three biggest areas of progress were that LGBT people felt more confident to be themselves, the government is starting to recognize them, and there are more activities available for their community. Person-to-person contact What’s more, three-fourths of Vietnamese use Facebook to stay in touch with other LGBT people, but physical meetings are on the rise. The study said 45 percent of people interact with other LGBT Vietnamese through school or work, 32 percent through community events, and 27 percent through friends. “More and more people are connected with each other through person-to-person [contact], rather than online,” Tung said. “That is a very good sign, because we are coming out more.” Family pressures But challenges remain, especially at home. While Vietnam is liberalizing socially, the key difficulty LGBT people face is gaining acceptance from their parents. Among respondents, pressure from family ranked as the top difficulty in self-identity (52 percent), as opposed to pressure from friends or work. Of those who hadn’t come out, 22 percent said they were afraid of family rejection. Many turn to their friends to come out and seek support, rather than their parents. When Vietnamese learn that their children are gay or another sexual minority, it's common for them to impose counseling or other treatment, disown the children, force them to wear different clothes, or threaten their partners. “These painful situations still exist in Vietnam,” said Tieu Thi Ai Nhi, a member of the Vietnam chapter of PFLAG, a group for parents and friends of LGBT people. Global momentum Besides PFLAG, other international voices have added to the momentum around Vietnam’s burgeoning LGBT rights movement. Those range from Germany’s Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, which provides funding for related events, to the new U.S. ambassador, Ted Osius. Before arriving in Hanoi with his husband and adopted son, Osius said in an interview that the image of his diverse family could be encouraging to gay Vietnamese. “The possibility exists that we can help in a country of 92 million people move the ball forward, potentially.... I would like to think we might have some marginal influence,” he said. Canada, too, has joined the cause, with a top diplomat saying the rights of all, whether gay, straight, or otherwise, are a priority. “This is not a matter of choosing which rights we wish to defend, or whose rights we wish to protect,” Wayne Robson, the Canadian consul general in Ho Chi Minh City, said in a speech during the announcement of the ICS survey.

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В Донецке взорвался склад боеприпасов - Коммерсантъ
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 1:11 AM

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США анонсировали начало наземной операции против «Исламского государства» - Газета.Ru
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Memo From Munich: Crisis in Ukraine Underscores Opposing Lessons of Cold War by By ALISON SMALE
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 1:10 AM

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Officials from Germany and the United States drew very different lessons from the West’s 20th-century showdown with the Soviet Union, as they clashed over whether to arm Kiev’s troops.

Путин: авиаудары по боевикам ИГ "нелегитимны" - BBC Russian
Monday February 9th, 2015 at 1:10 AM