by Frédéric Burnand in Geneva, swissinfo.ch March 16, 2014 – 10:31 With the future status of Crimea still uncertain, Switzerland is making the most of its good standing with Moscow to impose the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) as the mediator between Russia and Western nations. Swiss President and […]
STORY SUMMARY March 14, 2014 12:07 By David Ignatius The Daily Star, Lebanon It’s still possible to imagine a fuzzy, face-saving compromise in Ukraine: Crimea would have a new, quasi-autonomous administrative status blessed by Moscow and Kiev. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will make one more try, seeing […]
French and British warships of the Allied fleet begin their attack on the city of Sevastopol, the base of the Russian Tsar’s Black Sea fleet, during the Crimean War, October 1854. (Illustrated London News/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) In the 1850s, Russia fought a bloody war against Britain, France and other nations. […]
Crimean War From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Crimean War (disambiguation). Crimean War Part of Ottoman wars in Europe and the Russo-Turkish wars Detail of Franz Roubaud‘s panoramic painting The Siege of Sevastopol (1904) Date October 1853 – February 1856 Location Crimean Peninsula, Caucasus, Balkans,Black Sea, Baltic Sea, White Sea, Far East Result Allied victory, Treaty of Paris Belligerents French Empire British Empire […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has his eyes on Crimea (Keystone) swissinfo.ch and agencies March 12, 2014 – 19:49 Swiss President Didier Burkhalter, in his capacity as chairman of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), has spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin about how to […]
Continue reading the main story In an emotional speech in Kiev on Sunday, former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky – recently released from 10 years in jail – told the Maidan “there is another Russia”, one opposed to military action in Ukraine. Russian writer and broadcaster Andrei Ostalski agrees […]
BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT Share 182 85 4 For some reason, our last century’s two world wars started rather far from home. I bet that most people in January 1914 couldn’t find Sarajevo on a map. But then again, how many of us – really, I […]
Tatarstan’s President Rustam Minnikhanov (right) in Simferopol on March 5. March 05, 2014 The president of Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, and the pro-Russian prime minister of Ukraine’s Crimea, Serhiy Aksyonov, have signed an agreement on cooperation. Minnikhanov told journalists after the signing ceremony […]
OnIslam & News Agencies Tuesday, 04 March 2014 16:39 A suggested separation vote on March 30 was deemed a bad idea for many Muslim Tatars, rejecting the idea of separation. SIMFEROPOL – As war drumbeats increase in Ukraine, Muslim Tatars in the autonomous Republic of Crimea are […]
Interview with James Jatras, former US Senate foreign policy analyst CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/03/04/353162/dialogue-only-solution-to-kiev-crisis/ Press TV has conducted an interview with former US Senate foreign policy analyst James Jatras to talk about the crisis in Ukraine. Below is a rush transcript of the interview: Press TV: Now Russia has said […]
Ukraine and the ‘Little Cold War’ Geopolitical Weekly Tuesday, March 4, 2014 – 03:09 Print Text Size Stratfor Editor’s Note: In place of George Friedman’s regular Geopolitical Weekly, this column is derived from two chapters of Friedman’s 2009 book, The Next 100 Years. We are running this abstract of the […]
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin won the green light from parliament Saturday to send troops into Ukraine after a bloody three-month uprising that swept new pro-EU leaders to power […]
Source: BBC Russia’s upper house of parliament has approved President Putin’s request for Russian forces to be used in Ukraine. He had asked that Russian forces be used “until the […]