MOSCOW (AP) — A convoy of 280 Russian trucks reportedly packed with aid headed for eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, but Kiev said it would only allow the goods through under the close supervision of the international Red Cross. A Ukrainian
The former head of the British Army, General the Lord Dannatt, has written an impassioned piece for the Sunday Telegraph, urging Western leaders to intervene in Iraq as soon as possible to stop the unfolding genocide in the country. Lord
The British Government has agreed to open a public inquiry into the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian intelligence agent who defected to Britain in 2000, where he was an outspoken critic of former FSB (the renamed KGB) director and
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Congress reacts to photos of Assad’s torture victims in Syria Israel confirms the death of the abducted soldier Congress reacts to photos of Assad’s torture victims in Syria The House Foreign Affairs Committee on
The chief-of-staff of Britain’s biggest trade union has launched a group supporting pro-Putin separatists in Ukraine. Andrew Murray, who is one of the most powerful figures in the Unite union, spoke at the inaugural meeting of campaign group Solidarity with
“We have different values and allies,” tweeted Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin yesterday of Russia and the United States. To illustrate, the Russian official posted a split-screen of photos of Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Barack Obama–the former
Britain will on Thursday formally open an inquiry into the radioactive poisoning of Russian former spy Alexander Litvinenko in a case that threatens to increase tensions with Moscow amid the crisis in Ukraine. The government announced last week that it
In 2006, at a meeting with members of the South African Parliament, Russian president Vladimir Putin noted that the Crimea “was now part of the Ukraine.” Earlier this year, Russia annexed the Crimea in an action that was rejected by
Amid a public mood of nostalgia for a vanished Soviet empire, Russia is marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Soviet leader Yuri Andropov with exhibitions and documentaries that gloss over his harsh treatment of dissidents. President Vladimir
Hillary Clinton is ready to share more thoughts on Vladimir Putin. The Hill reports: In a CNN interview scheduled to air on Sunday, the possible 2016 front-runner and former secretary of State said Russia “bears responsibility” for arming and supporting
Friday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” Fox News military analyst, Ret. Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, railed against President Barack Obama “raising funds and playing golf” while Russian President Vladimir Putin creates chaos in the Ukraine. Peter argued,
MOSCOW (AP) — A Moscow court convicted two Russian opposition activists and sentenced them to 4 ½ years in prison Thursday for their role in organizing protests a day before President Vladimir Putin’s inauguration in May 2012. Sergei Udaltsov and
Conservatives are refusing to give back a £160k donation from a Russian oligarch with links to the Kremlin, according to the Sun. The money was paid by the wife of Vladimir Putin’s former deputy finance minister for a special tennis
LONDON (AP) — The British government announced plans Tuesday for a wide-ranging public inquiry into the mysterious 2006 death of poisoned former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko. The decision, which comes at a time of rising tensions with Russia, is a
KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — A train carrying the remains of people killed in the Malaysia Airlines crash arrived in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Wednesday on their way to the Netherlands, a journey which has been agonizingly slow
A 20-year-old Australian student narrowly escaped dying on the doomed Malaysian Airways flight MH17, after she changed her travel plans at the last minute. Bec McDonald from Geelong in Victoria was due to fly home on the plane, but just
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Tuesday it will hold a public inquiry into the death of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko, who accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of ordering his murder from his deathbed after he was poisoned in
President Obama reaffirmed demands for “immediate and full access” for international investigators to the flight crash site of Flight MH17 and called for Russian President Vladimir Putin to take immediate action. In a press conference on Monday, Obama accused Russian
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has warned that he has put his nation’s military on standby in response to the alleged shooting down of commercial aircraft Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, on which 28 Australian citizens died. Any action by Russia
British Prime Minister David Cameron has demanded that Vladimir Putin ends his support for Russian separatists in Ukraine and stops his attempts to destabilise the country. The comments came in his statement to the House of Commons on the shooting
The British military are to spend £650 million on drones to stop the Russians from making any further incursions into the UK’s territorial waters. The drones will be used to patrol the coast after Ministers became worried that Moscow was
The British newspapers, like the British government, are pinning the blame for the Malaysian Airlines disaster on Putin. Most Americans, whether Democrats or Republicans, would see things the way these UK headlines do: “Putin is a pariah – he must
Ukraine Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said twenty-seven more bodies were found at the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 scene; in total, 192 of the 298 victims have been recovered. Pro-Russian forces transported the victims in refrigerated cars to the Torez
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) said that Vladimir Putin is “responsible and complicit” in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in an interview on Sunday’s “State of the Union” on CNN. “I think this is a
Britain’s newly-appointed Defence Secretary accused Vladimir Putin of “sponsoring terrorism” and told him to “get out of Ukraine”, in one of the most outspoken responses to the MH17 crash from any Western politician. Michael Fallon said that Putin must be
