Tag: NATO

Putin’s Orthodox Jihad

December 27, 2014

Yesterday Russia announced a revised military doctrine, signed by President Vladimir Putin, that names NATO as the Kremlin’s main adversary and clarifies that Russia’s military reserves the right to respond to conventional threats with both nuclear and conventional weapons. This is no big change, since it only amplifies existing doctrine, but its explicit emphasis on […]

Beware Putin’s Special War in 2015

December 23, 2014

December 2014 is the month Putin’s Russia was plunged into undeniable crisis. Between the dramatic drop in oil prices and the collapse of the ruble, under Western sanctions pressure, Russians are going into the new year in a dramatically different, and lessened, economic situation than the one they enjoyed at the beginning of the year […]

Ukraine Live Day 309: Rada Abolishes Ukraine’s Non-Aligned Status

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Ukraine Live Day 304: EU Not To Relax Sanctions As Shelling Continues In Lugansk Region

December 18, 2014

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Putin Making Belarus Into Base For Attacking Kyiv, Minsk Analyst Says

December 16, 2014

Staunton, December 15 – Even as Moscow appears to be reducing its military actions in southeastern Ukraine, a “reduction” that is at least in part a disinformation campaign, Putin is making Belarus into a base for attacking Kyiv. The appearance of more Russian “little green men” in Gomel last week prompted some Ukrainians to ask […]

Ukraine Live Day 301: Ukrainian Military Reports Numerous Attacks

December 15, 2014

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Ukraine Live Day 295: ‘Day of Silence’

December 9, 2014

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Russia Waging Effective Info-War In Baltics, NATO Expert Says

December 4, 2014

Staunton, December 4 – Moscow is waging a highly effective information war in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with its Russia Today television broadcasts in their national languages, a war that the West must respond with its own efforts, according to Elina Lange-Ionatamishvili, a NATO specialist on counter-propaganda. In an interview with Tallinn’s Eesti Paevaleht, Lange-Ionatamishvili […]

West Split between Those Who Take Freedom For Granted and Those Who Don’t

December 1, 2014

Staunton, November 28 – Russian aggression in Ukraine has opened a new divide in the West between those who take freedom for granted and those who know that it must be defended or it can be lost, according to Vladimir Vyatrovich, the director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory. Many in the West have […]

Ukraine Live Day 284: Attacks On Stanitsa Luganskaya Continue

November 28, 2014

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