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   ‘THAT’S WHEN I BECAME A SNIPER’: UKRAINE’S WOMEN VETS DESCRIBE THEIR WAR

As the war in Ukraine smolders on, we sat down with women veterans who recount their experiences fighting to defend their country, and each other. Hundreds of women were among the young Ukrainians who left their lives and jobs and families to resist the Russian-backed forces who invaded their country’s eastern region in 2014. With little training and no combat experience, these students, economists, academics, office workers, and mothers took on a variety of military roles, first as combat medics, then as snipers and intelligence gatherers. They endured the same harsh realities of war as their male counterparts, and a secondary insult: thanks in part to a selectively enforced Ukrainian law that...

November 14, 2019

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   RUSSIA POSITIONING ITSELF IN LIBYA TO UNLEASH MIGRANT CRISIS INTO EUROPE

RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin suggested to the West last month that the widening chaos in Libya after almost a decade of war should have been obvious: "A flow of migrants went through Libya to Europe," he said in an interview, recalling the displacement of refugees that has reached crisis levels in recent years. "They have what they were warned about." This week, The New York Times documented the deployment into Libya of Russian mercenaries. While Moscow denies its involvement, the situation mirrors tactics it has successfully employed in Syria and Ukraine to gain influence in chaotic war zones by dispatching private forces Putin can disavow until the point of victory. The Russian leader's...

November 14, 2019

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   PRESIDENT TRUMP ANNOUNCED HE IS CONSIDERING ATTENDING NEXT YEAR’S MAY DAY PARADE IN MOSCOW

If the President truly wants to honor those citizens of the Soviet Union who lost their lives in World War II and who helped defeat the Nazis, then he should acknowledge specifically those non Russians who fought in the Soviet Army – it was not the Russian Army. Millions of non Russians died in and because of the war. Belarus lost 25.3% of its citizens in the war, on a percentage basis, the most in the Soviet Union. Ukraine 16.3%, Latvia 13.7%, Lithuania 12.7%, Russia 12.7%. President Trump appropriately rails against fake news. He should be vigilant as to the fake history President Putin continues to spin. Russia and the Soviet Union are not and never were synonyms, and Putin and the Kremlin should be called on...

November 13, 2019

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   THE BIG WINNER IN UKRAINE SCANDAL? RUSSIA — JUST AS IT ALWAYS WANTED

Vladimir Putin’s nightmare is a prosperous, rule-of-law Ukraine integrated into the affluent West on Russia’s border. Such a Ukrainian success story would trace back to its popular revolution on Maidan Square in February 2004. Might Ukraine not give the Russian people ideas to do the same? It is for this reason that the Kremlin has conducted a frantic propaganda war to demonstrate Ukraine’s abject failure, its rampant corruption, and to instruct others in Russia’s “sphere of influence” not to follow Ukraine’s example. It seems that Ukraine cannot get a lucky break in its quest to turn from Russia to become part of Europe. From its founding in August 1991 to today, Ukraine navigated an Orange Revolution...

November 13, 2019

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   WHAT COOPER, CROFT AND ANDERSON TOLD IMPEACHMENT INVESTIGATORS

House impeachment investigators released the transcripts of three more depositions on Monday, offering critical new details surrounding President Donald Trump’s order to freeze military aid to Ukraine. Laura Cooper, a deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Russia and Ukraine, told investigators Trump’s abrupt hold on the critical security assistance sent all corners of the administration into a frenzy to get it released — and to understand what motivated Trump’s decision. Cooper’s testimony — halted for hours when Republicans stormed the Intelligence Committee’s hearing room in protest — provided a window into the urgent questions high-level officials raced to answer about Trump’s move, including whether it violated any laws about distributing congressionally mandated appropriations. Investigators also released transcripts...

November 13, 2019

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   BORIS JOHNSON'S CONSERVATIVE PARTY HAS RECEIVED A SURGE IN CASH FROM RUSSIAN DONORS

A new investigation reveals that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party has received a surge in cash from Russian donors over the past year, news that comes as his government continues to block publication of a report into Russian influence over recent elections. An OpenDemocracy investigation found that the UK Conservative Party received at least £498,850, or about $642,000, from Russian business executives and their associates between November 2018 and last month. This was a significant increase from the previous year, when such donations amounted to less than £350,000. The increase came despite increased pressure on the party to cut its ties to Russian oligarchs since the poisoning of...

November 13, 2019

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   IS PUTIN A FASCIST?

Avoidance, lies and accusations–somersaulting history–have undergirded Moscow’s aggression for centuries. Western ignorance, naivete and credulity have multiplied that asset, allowing Russia to enrich the former to weapons grade. In Nezavisimaya newspaper earlier this year, Putin advisor Vladislav Surkov wrote expansively of Russia’s success in invading our brain and molding an “altered consciousness.” More than ever before, Putin has retooled the history of Moscow’s role in WWII, the “Great Patriotic War,” into a memorial without a memory or rather, hyperlinked to faux memories. They are the domestic behavioral stimuli for Russia’s accelerating assault against the US and the rest of Western democracies, contempt for...

November 12, 2019

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   VICTORY FOR UKRAINE MEANS RUSSIA MUST ANSWER TO UN COURT, INCLUDING OVER MH17

The UN’s International Court of Justice on 8 November rejected all of Russia’s objections and confirmed that it does have jurisdiction in both suits brought by Ukraine against Russia over violations of two international treaties. This is a critical victory with major impact for victims of discrimination in occupied Crimea and, potentially, for a future international tribunal over the downing by a Russian Buk missile of Malaysian airliner MH17 over occupied Donbas on 17 July 2014. Olena Zerkal, the Deputy Foreign Minister and head of Ukraine’s delegation to ICJ, says that “this is the first time in history that Russia will be answerable, on all our accusations, including MH17. Over the Boeing [disaster] this is an extremely...

November 11, 2019

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   THE FIGHT FOR UKRAINE IS ABOUT MORE THAN JUST UKRAINE

Ukraine’s centrality in Washington’s impeachment probe is overshadowed by the country’s historical and political centrality in Europe. With Russia defining itself as “Eurasian,” Ukraine is the biggest country in Europe, spanning several sub-regions, with the second-longest Black Sea coastline, and bordering six European states. It is also battling with a revisionist Moscow not only over its territorial integrity and international alliances but also over Ukrainian identity and history. When the Berlin Wall was dismantled thirty years ago, ending the East-West divide imposed by the Kremlin for almost half a century, few policymakers predicted that the Soviet Union itself would collapse within two years. When the communist...

November 08, 2019

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   A RUSSIAN ALLY’S SOLO COURSE ALTERS WESTERN CALCULATIONS

Western governments are moving to shore up the authoritarian, independent-minded President Aleksander Lukashenko of Belarus, worried that his country’s possible absorption by Russia would alter Europe’s balance of power. That support, however, is limited by fears that getting too close to Minsk could provoke a Russian intervention. Some commanders in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization say Belarus’s military and security services have already fallen under Moscow’s sway, anyway. Mr. Lukashenko, in power since 1994, is resisting Moscow’s growing demands to further integrate the two countries into a “Union State,” an entity that has been largely symbolic since its creation 22 years ago. He has rejected...

November 07, 2019

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