Moscow, Kiev in tug-of-war over religious future of Ukraine
Source: Associated Press By RAPHAEL SATTER LONDON (AP) — As Kiev and Moscow clash on the battlefields of eastern Ukraine, a new front has opened up in the religious sphere. […]
Ukrainian president slams Russian church as ‘national security threat’
Source: Yahoo News Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Saturday condemned the influential Russian Orthodox Church, which counts millions of believers, as a threat to national security. The […]
At Prayer Breakfast, Guests Seek Access to a Different Higher Power
Source: The New York Times By Kenneth P. Vogel and Elizabeth Dias WASHINGTON — With a lineup of prayer meetings, humanitarian forums and religious panels, the National Prayer Breakfast […]
Is Russia attempting to erase Crimean Muslim culture?
Crimean Tatars fear the Kremlin, after annexation, is chipping away at identity of the 250,000-strong Muslim ethnicity. by Mansur Mirovalev 18 Feb 2018 Russia’s restoration of the Big Khan Mosque […]
In search of surrogates, foreign couples descend on Ukraine
Source: BBC News By Kevin Ponniah Ukraine, one of Europe’s poorest nations, is fast becoming the place to go for people desperate to find a surrogate to have their […]
Brexit: German minister sees model for Turkey and Ukraine
Source: BBC News A “smart” Brexit deal could serve as a model for the EU’s future relations with other non-EU states, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel says. Turkey and Ukraine […]
A Back-Channel Plan for Ukraine and Russia, Courtesy of Trump Associates
By MEGAN TWOHEY and SCOTT SHANEFEB. 19, 2017 President Trump on his way to Charleston, S.C., on Friday. Although he has expressed hope that the United States and Russia can work together, it is unclear if the White House will take a privately submitted peace proposal for Ukraine seriously. CreditAl […]
Trump administration ‘had a secret plan to lift Russian sanctions’ and cede Ukraine territory to Moscow
Senior Trump aides met with an opposition politician from Ukraine in New York Tom Hamburger, Rosalind S Helderman Washington DC President Trump’s personal lawyer and a former business associate met privately in New York City last month with a member of the Ukrainian parliament to discuss a peace plan for […]
Russia implicated in MH17 crash in Ukraine
Source: Gulf News United Nations/Moscow: A Dutch-led investigation has concluded that the powerful surface-to-air missile system that was used to shoot down a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine two years […]
This is Why Vladimir Putin is Accusing Ukraine of Terrorism
Source: Time By Simon Shuster It would have been a suicide mission, and a rather pointless one. But that is roughly the picture that Russian President Vladimir Putin painted on Wednesday […]
Dangerous Propaganda: Network Close To NATO Military Leader Fueled Ukraine Conflict
By Christoph Schult and Klaus Wiegrefe http://www.spiegel.de AFP Former NATO Supreme Allied Comander Europe Philip Breedlove at a press conference in 2015 Working with dubious sourcing, a group close to NATO’s chief military commander Philip Breedlove sought to secure weapons deliveries for Ukraine, a trove of newly released emails […]
The Crimea Complex: A Crisis of Identity Where East Meets West
The Crimea Complex: A Crisis of Identity Where East Meets West By Erich Follath Yuri Kozyrev / DER SPIEGEL It’s been two years since Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine. Since then, President Vladimir Putin has been cheered for liberating the peninsula and scorned for usurping it — depending on who […]
Eurovision winning entry: 1944, a harrowing family tale about Stalin’s deportation of Muslim Tatars
Jamala, representing Ukraine with the song 1944, performs during the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 final in Stockholm. Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP Photo May 15, 2016 KIEV // “When strangers are coming, they come to your house, they kill you all and say, ‘we’re not guilty, not guilty’.” […]
Tatars Step up Resistance to Russian Rule Over Crimea
By NATALIYA VASILYEVA, ASSOCIATED PRESS UROZHAYNE, Crimea — Feb 15, 2016 Elnara Asanova lives alone with her four small children because her husband, an ethnic Tatar, is in jail. Last April, when she was seven months pregnant, police grabbed him from the streets of their village because he had taken […]
Russia warns of new Cold War as east Ukraine violence surges
By Reuters – Feb 13,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A man walks past the debris of a passenger minibus after it hit a mine near Marinka on Wednesday (AFP photo) MUNICH — Violence in eastern Ukraine is intensifying and Russian-backed rebels have moved heavy weaponry back to the front line, […]
Killings in the Name of Ukrainian Land of Donbas
Patriarch Philaret Killings in the Name of Ukrainian Land of Donbas by HALYNA MOKRUSHYNA On March 22, in his Sunday sermon, the Patriarch Philaret of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyiv Patriarchate explained to his parishioners in Volodymyrsky cathedral in Kyiv that Ukrainian soldiers who are killing civilians and rebels […]
‘Guantanamo of the East’: Ukraine Locks Up Refugees at EU’s Behest
‘Guantanamo of the East’: Ukraine Locks Up Refugees at EU’s Behest By Maximilian Popp spiegel.de REUTERS Brussels is doing all it can to prevent refugees from reaching Fortress Europe, with initiatives like funding the construction of interment centers in Ukraine. Asylum seekers who have spent time there […]
The War Next Door: Can Merkel’s Diplomacy Save Europe?
The problem has four syllables: Debaltseve. German Chancellor Angela Merkel can now pronounce it without difficulties, as can French President François Hollande. Debaltseve proved to be one of the thorniest […]
UKRAINE PEACE PLAN : Swiss Foreign Minister Burkhalter promotes OSCE at Munich security talks
At a security conference in Munich to discuss the Ukraine crisis, Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter called for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to have a […]
Russia’s crackdown on Crimea’s Muslims Tatars resisted Moscow’s annexation of the Black Sea peninsula in March, and the Muslim community has paid for it since.
Mansur Mirovalev and Denis Sinyakov Last updated: 25 Nov 2014 11:33 Putilovka, Crimea – The search warrant accused Muslyadin Muslyadinov of killing a Ukrainian riot police officer, although the dozen […]