KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia executed a de facto military takeover of a strategic region in Ukraine as the parliament in Moscow gave President Vladimir Putin a green light Saturday to proceed to protect Russian interests. The newly installed government
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:
Appearing on the debut of Breitbart News Saturday, Rep. Michele Bachmann said that President Barack Obama has done more damage to America abroad because of his clueless foreign policy than he has to the country at home. Speaking to Breitbart News Executive
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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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.
America is in a new Cold War. It may be undeclared, but then again, so was the Cold War itself. Many Americans mark the start of the Cold War by reference to Winston Churchill’s famous “Iron Curtain” speech on March
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia ordered 150,000 troops to test their combat readiness Wednesday in a show of force that prompted a blunt warning from the United States that any military intervention in Ukraine would be a “grave mistake.” Vladimir
Former Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovich has been missing since Parliament passed a resolution on February 22nd that kicked him out of office. Two Russian media outlets say Yanukovich is in Russia: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s official newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta claims
Russia President Vladimir Putin put troops near the Ukraine border on high alert, which is now affecting Ukraine’s economy and the opposition’s efforts to implement a new government. With the political turmoil hammering Ukraine’s economy, the hryvnia currency tumbled 4
On February 26th, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered “a test of combat readiness for troops stationed in a region that touches Ukraine’s northern border.” This follows “growing tension between Russia and Ukraine” and the popular ouster of “pro-Russia president Viktor
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered a snap check of the battle-readiness of the armed forces in the western and central military districts, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu announced.
After publishing some 1,300 weekly columns over the past twenty-five years at the Washington Times, former senior Reagan Defense Department official and national security advocate Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. begins today writing each week a column for the Breitbart News
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Russia doubts the new Ukraine government and said he did not see any legitimate authority figures to talk to. Parliament passed a resolution on Saturday that ousted Viktor Yanukovich from the presidency and set
It is finally calm in Ukraine’s capital Kiev after three months of active protests, but the Crimean peninsula is heating up. Protesters gathered in Sevastopol in Crimea to demonstrate against the actions of parliament in Kiev and declare their plans
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev weighed in on the political crisis in Ukraine and said it occurred because the country’s government did not act democratically. “Ultimately this is the result of the failure of the government to act democratically” and
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said that Russian President Vladimir Putin should be nervous after the recent unrest in Ukraine, and a partition of the country would be unacceptable. Appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation after a peace deal in which
Human Rights Foundation Chairman Garry Kasparov has been a consistent voice against the aggression of Russian premier Vladimir Putin, and on Thursday night on Twitter he made his dissatisfaction with Obama’s passive approach to the situation in Ukraine strikingly clear: “How
US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin will speak by telephone Friday following the deal to end the political crisis in Ukraine, a US official said. The call will take place later on Friday, the official said on
The streets of Venezuelan cities are aflame as Nicolás Maduro’s thugs try to snuff out opposition to his regime. Ukrainian patriots eager to join the west are digging in at the barricades in Kiev. And yet the revolutionaries of Occupy
Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has said he “completely agrees” with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s controversial law on homosexuality. In an interview with CNN, Ecclestone said of Mr Putin, “He hasn’t said he doesn’t agree [with being gay] just that
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Fearing that a call for a truce was a ruse, protesters tossed firebombs and advanced upon police lines Thursday in Ukraine’s embattled capital. Government snipers shot back and the almost-medieval melee that ensued left at least
President Obama was in Toluca, Mexico, Wednesday, meeting with President Enrique Peña Nieto. However, he made it clear at their summit that his mind was with Kiev, encouraging peace in Ukraine and threatening “consequences if people step over the line.”
Is Vladimir Putin’s police Pussy Riots’ oppressors or their press agents? Two members of the Russian punk-rock collective Pussy Riot claim that Russian secret police arrested them and roughed them up on Tuesday. The incident took place in Sochi, just
