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On the night of April 16 Ukrainian troops were able to repel an “attack against their base in the southeast city of Mariupol.” According to AFP, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said the Ukrainians killed three pro-Russian “assailants” and wounded 13

Wednesday, Ed Lucas of The Economist gave a frightening account of how the Ukrainian crisis could escalate into nuclear war.  As The Economist‘s former Moscow bureau chief, he is better qualified than most to understand the threat of renewed Russian

(AFP) Ukrainian troops repelled an overnight attack on their base in the southeast city of Mariupol, killing three of the assailants and wounding 13, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said Thursday. Around 300 people mounted the attack using guns and petrol

Would Vladimir Putin invade Alaska? That’s what one questioner asked the Russian president during a nationally televised question-and-answer session in Moscow. Putin suggested that there would be no interest in acquiring more northern territory. Putin added that he did not

Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden joined a public question-and-answer session with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow via video. Snowden asked Putin if Russia had similar surveillance programs as the United States–referring to the mass collection and storage

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Iran says that the Ukraine crisis is ‘a divine blessing’ Ukraine’s ‘anti-terrorist operation’ turns into a fiasco Russian ambassador signals coming invasion of east Ukraine Pakistan Taliban refuses to extend ceasefire, wants ‘peace talks’

Edward Lucas, a prominent journalist who works for The Economist, has warned the Ukraine crisis may rapidly devolve, creating the conditions for a potential World War III. Lucas is an expert on Russian affairs, serving as The Economist‘s Moscow bureau

GENEVA/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Foreign ministers from East and West will try to defuse the Ukraine crisis on Thursday in Geneva, once frequently the scene of Cold War negotiations, but will risk being upstaged by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

MOKPO, South Korea (AP) — Strong currents, rain and bad visibility hampered an increasingly anxious search Thursday for 287 passengers, many thought to be high school students, still missing more than a day after their ferry flipped onto its side

People in Mariupol, Ukraine, told the city’s website an attack on military unit number 3057 occurred around 8:40 PM local time. They said it was all quiet until someone shot up flares and yelled, “Mariupol, arise.” A bus showed up

DAKAR (Reuters) – Karim Wade, son of Senegal’s ex-president, will go on trial in two months to face corruption charges, a year after he was accused of illegally amassing a fortune of $1.4 billion during his father’s rule, a government

Multiple local media outlets in Ukraine are reporting the much anticipated “anti-terrorist” operations in the Eastern Ukraine town of Kramatorsk have failed. Tuesday, Interim President Turchynov warned pro-Russian forces in the east they had until 9 a.m. local time to

A high-ranking UN official told students last week that they ought to take over UN buildings. Kate Gilmore, Deputy Executive Director of the billion-dollar UN Population Fund (UNFPA) said this to students gathered to participate in the UN Commission on

(Reuters) – The world economy can expect steady growth at best over the coming year, but any rapid slowdown in China as it tries to rebalance its economy could upset the still-unsteady progress, Reuters polls showed.

(AFP) Syria has reached a “critical moment” as the world awaits news of fresh peace talks, China’s foreign minister told the warring nation’s opposition leader Ahmad Jarba in Beijing Wednesday. Wang Yi was speaking at the start of four days

On Monday, several dozen angry Ukrainian protesters marched from Independence Square to the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) building with tires, clubs, and even machete in hand to demand the resignation of Interior Minster Arsen Avakov.  They believed Avakov has been weak

From Edward Lucas in the Daily Mail: Deep in the flat and featureless landscape of eastern Ukraine, it is all too ­possible that the outline of World War III is taking shape. … We are soon to face a bleak

Peter Bergen, CNN’s Mr Al Qaeda, has declared via the New America Foundation, that the real threat to America is not the terrorist group responsible for 9/11, the Fort Hood massacre, or the attempted Time Square bombing, but “right wing

On Wednesday, the Federation Council in Russia approved new requirements for foreigners to receive a work visa or residency permit while the State Duma passed a law that would make it easier for native Russian speakers to receive citizenship. The

While the civil war in Syria is between Bashar al-Assad’s Alwaite regime and the overwhelmingly Sunni rebels, the neutral Christian and Druze minorities in Damascus are paying a high price. Regime forces are using Christians and Druze neighborhoods as a

Russian Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev said Russia might sue the US in World Trade Organization (WTO) court because of sanctions placed against St. Petersburg’s Bank Rossiya, which is President Vladimir Putin’s preferred bank. “The WTO gives us some additional possibilities,”

Former Army Sergeant Kyle J. White will receive the Medal of Honor during a White House ceremony on May 13th, making him “the seventh living recipient of the nation’s highest military honor.” According to Fox News, White is receiving the