On Friday’s broadcast of PBS’s “NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks and syndicated columnist Mark Shields discussed the current unrest in Ukraine with Russian President Vladimir Putin increasing his involvement in the battered country. Partial transcript as follows: BROOKS:
I cannot find the Reuters report, but CNN is reporting that the same Russian Parliament that just unanimously voted to take military action in the Ukraine now wants to pull their ambassador out of the U.S. — CNN: Russia Parliament
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin asked parliament Saturday for permission to use the country’s military in Ukraine, moving to formalize what Ukrainian officials described as an ongoing deployment of Russian troops in the strategic region of Crimea.
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Remember the Peanuts cartoon where Lucy promises to hold the football for Charlie Brown then pulls it away at the last moment? Something similar happened between the U.S. and Russia this week. From the Russian soldiers now stationed in Crimea
On February 28th Obama delivered a “hastily arranged” statement warning Russia against military intervention in Ukraine. According to Yahoo News, Obama said, “We are deeply concerned by reports of military movements taken by the Russian federation inside of the Ukraine.”
As top Ukrainian officials were accusing Russia of invading their country on Friday, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin reminded the press that derided her has a neophyte during the 2008 presidential campaign that she had accurately predicted an Obama presidency
Right after he warned Russia not to invade Ukraine, President Barack Obama went to the DNC meeting and proclaimed “officially happy hour with the Democratic Party.”…
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) went on CNN’s “The Situation Room” to react to Russia invading the Ukraine. McCain said Russian President Vladimir Putin has little respect for President Barack Obama’s threats of consequences because when pushed he did not follow
Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin in 2008:
Friday afternoon, President Barack Obama made a statement from the White House warning Russia that “there will be costs” for any military intervention in Ukraine…
A news blog in Crimea has been collecting information on what the new Ukrainian leadership is calling an invasion and the U.S. is now calling an “uncontested arrival” by Russia into Crimea. This first clip shows Russian helicopters headed for
European and Americanmedia may be celebrating the triumph of the Ukraine “people’s revolution,” but the real question is who is going to payfor the $29 billion a year bailout to keep the country from goingbankrupt. United States Secretary ofState John
MSNBC helped its readers understand the complex geography of the Ukraine by broadcasting a map Friday that included Czechoslovakia–a country that ceased to exist as a single unit more than twenty years ago. It is not the first time that
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin warned that if Senator Barack Obama were elected president, his “indecision” and “moral equivalence” may encourage Russia’s Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine. Palin said then: After the Russian Army invaded
SKY News: Defiant Viktor Yanukovych has appeared in public for the first time since he was ousted as Ukraine’s president and vowed to fight on. Speaking at a televised press conference in Rostov-on-Don, in Russia, Mr Yanukovych said he was
The Russia foreign ministry admitted the country moved their troops into Ukraine’s troubled Crimea peninsula. The autonomous republic within Ukraine identifies as Russian and has been fighting back since parliament ousted Viktor Yanukovych. The Telegraph reports: “The Ukrainian side was
Members of the strongly pro-Putin Just Russia Party are introducing a bill in the Duma that would make it easier for Russia to annex territories that vote to join the nation. According to the drafters of the bill, the objective
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Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych finally emerged from the shadows for the first time since parliament ousted him on February 22. He held a news conference on Friday from Russia and blamed the West for all the problems in Ukraine.
Ukraine’s security authorities said on Friday they had regained control of two airports on the volatile Crimean peninsula that had been seized by gunmen that officials in Kiev said had links to the Russian military. The news comes after reports
SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine, Feb 28 (Reuters) – The United States told Russia to demonstrate in coming days that it was sincere about its promise not to intervene in Ukraine as armed men stormed the regional parliament and hours later others seized
Gunmen seized the Crimea airport, less than 24 hours after gunmen seized government buildings in Simferopol. Witnesses told the Interfax news agency that the 50 or so men were wearing the same gear as the ones who seized government buildings
Russia Today is reporting The Supreme Council of Ukraine’s Autonomous Republic of Crimea dissolved the current government and elected Crimea’s Russian Unity Party leader Sergey Aksyonov as the new chairman. Fifty-five out of 64 MPs voted for the government’s dissolution.
All senior modes of communication on foreign policy in the United States are now aligned with a uniform message for Ukraine: Viktor Yanokovych is no longer the legitimate ruler, and Russia should tread lightly in the region. In Thursday’s White
