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Ukraine Live Day 507: Will The OSCE’s ‘Water Truce’ Keep The Peace?

July 9, 2015

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Ukraine Liveblog Day 122: Reports of Heavy Combat Near Krasny Liman

June 19, 2014

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Putin’s Shift on Ukraine Result of His Visit to Beijing, Kazan Editor Says

May 25, 2014

Staunton, May 24 – Vladimir Putin began pulling Russian forces back from the Ukrainian border and distancing himself from the secessionists in east Ukraine after his visit to Beijing convinced him that China, however useful tactically, is a long-term threat to Russia and that Moscow needs the West as a counterbalance to Chinese power, according […]

Small Northern Nation Challenges Lukoil – and Local Officials Support the People

April 16, 2014

Staunton, April 16 – The Komi, one of the Russian Federation’s numerically small nations of the north, are demanding that that country’s oil giant, Lukoil, stop its destructive exploitation of oil reserves in the Izhemsk district of their republic – and, what may be even more significant, local officials are supporting the people rather than […]