Russian news agency RIA Novosti is reporting the Crimea government is asking Crimean Tatars, who only make up 15% of the population, to vacate their land and move to assigned lands. Crimean Deputy Prime Minister Rustam Temirgaliyev said the government
Putin has gone as far as he needs to in Ukraine and has no plans to invade any more of its territory, it was claimed yesterday. The Ukrainian government has been exaggerating Russian troop movements in order to garner sympathy
Kazakhstan’s foreign ministry has announced that the Crimea referendum and the subsequent Russian annexation of the region is the “free expression of will of the autonomous republic’s population”, invoking the United Nations Charter in support of its claims. In a statement
Crimean Tatars are to be forced off their lands and relocated, according to Crimean Deputy Prime Minister Rustam Temirgaliyev. Russia’s official RIA Novosti news agency reports that Mr Temirgaliyev said in an interview that he wants to “regularise” the land
On Wednesday, the National Geographic Society announced that they would be altering the global map to include Crimea in the map of Russia after Crimea’s secession from Ukraine is legally finalized. On Tuesday, National Geographic editorial leadership, led by geographer
Vladmir Putin is a gangster, but a shrewd one who is at least showing the Russian people leadership, vision, and action. According to USA Today, the Russian market is up and so is Putin’s popularity, which hit 72% among Russians
After Crimea declared independence from Ukraine on March 17, the government said they would seize all Ukrainian property and disband the Ukrainian military in the peninsula. They are keeping their word, as Crimean forces took control of Ukraine’s Navy headquarters
Ukrainian Defence Minister Igor Tenyukh is urgently heading to Crimea on Wednesday in a bid to ease tensions after Russia claimed the peninsula, the government said. “Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk told Igor Tenyukh and (First Deputy Prime Minister) Vitaliy Yarema
The Obama administration pushed back hard against Israel’s Defence Minister Tuesday for comments critical of the President’s projection of “weakness” in the face of world events. In a blistering personal attack reported Wednesday in Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, the administration accused Defence Minister
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Putin announces the annexation of Crimea to the Russian Federation Furious Vladimir Putin expresses contempt for the West Putin’s spokesman signals plans to invade eastern Ukraine Report: Chechnya terrorist leader Doku Umarov is dead
First the White House meddled in the healthcare industry, and now it is telling people how to invest. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told investors not to invest in any Russian stocks since the US imposed economic sanctions against
Barack Obama revealed his NCAA men’s basketball tournament picks to ESPN today. The president plays populist in his rhetoric. But in his NCAA bracket, the president favors the one percenters of college basketball. The presidential Final Four consists of #4
Former Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser went on “Russia Today” to discuss Russia’s attempt to annex the Crimea from the Ukraine and took the opportunity to express his anti-America views… Follow Pam on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
In response to Politico’s Dylan Byers Plays Goalie Against Obama’s Ukraine Critics: This might be the first time I’ve seen a pack of straw men pick up and move goalposts. What a completely idiotic last-ditch defense of Obama’s catastrophic foreign
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told radio station Europe 1 the G8 decided to suspend Russia from the forum, but the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan said no agreement was made. “As for G8, we decided to suspend Russia’s membership,”
Man alive, Democrats sure do have it good…. — New rule, champs: You don’t get to fault Obama for being “weak” unless you clearly state what you want him to do that he’s not doing. — Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) March
During Secretary of State John Kerry’s town hall with university students Tuesday, he blasted Russian President Vladimir Putin for running constant “propaganda” on eastern Ukraine television that he witnessed when he was in Kiev. Kerry said one would think the
Now that Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine, the east part of the country is worried they will be Russia’s next target. But Russian President Vladimir Putin is not the only one who threatens Ukraine in the east. Pro-Russians have been
The latest evidence on the missing Malaysian jetliner shows that it was intentionally diverted by someone who knew what he was doing, who may be hiding it somewhere to be used in a terror plot, later. Meanwhile, “our number one geopolitical
In the aftermath of Vladimir Putin’s Russian annexation of Crimea – and in the wake of the Obama administration’s tepid response, amounting to a slap on the wrist directed at a specific few individuals who seem less than perturbed by
On Tuesday, gunmen opened fire on a Ukrainian base in Simferopol, Crimea and one Ukrainian soldier was reportedly killed after he was shot in the neck. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said it was an act of war. “The conflict
With the resurgence of a Cold War sensibility in Europe and the U.S. now that Russia has annexed Crimea, it is getting hotter for Westerners living in Russia. Many foreign business leaders and ex-patriots living in Moscow are beginning to
Iain Dale: Two weeks ago I hosted a debate on Ukraine between Tory MP Brooks Newmark and former Kremlin advisor Alexander Nekrassov. Today I hosted Round 2. Here it is for your viewing pleasure.
On March 18th, Ukrainian troops at a base in Crimea reported they were surrounded and under attack by Russian troops. At least one Ukrainian has reportedly been killed and another wounded. According to The Jerusalem Post, Russians forces are demanding
Vice President Joe Biden is in Poland to discuss the tense situation between Ukraine and Russia. At the same time Russia President Vladimir Putin signed the decree officially recognizing Crimea’s independence from Ukraine and then claimed it as a Russia
