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Mysterious Bombs Are Exploding In Ukraine — And Not In The War-Torn East
More than a dozen people were injured late Monday when a grenade blast rocked a courthouse in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, the latest in a recent series of mysterious and alarmingly...
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Economic Sanctions Won't Make Putin Budge On Ukraine
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A surge in violence in east Ukraine is undermining international hopes that Russia's financial crisis and Western sanctions will force President Vladimir Putin to change policy on...
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Russia Is Still Denying That It's Sending Troops And Weapons To Eastern Ukraine
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia denied new accusations by Kiev that it had sent soldiers and weapons to east Ukraine and held out hope of progress at talks on the conflict in Berlin on Wednesday despite...
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9 Ways China And Russia Are Partnering To Undermine The US
In this excerpt from The Russia-China Axis: The New Cold War And America's Crisis Of Leadership authors Douglas E. Schoen and Melik Kaylan argue that only a rebirth of American global leadership can...
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Russia Sent A Spy Ship To Havana While US Diplomats Are Visiting
A Russian spy ship "bristling with antennas and satellite dishes" docked in Havana harbor just a day before a US delegation is set to travel to the country, CNN reported today.President Barack Obama...
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Russia Will Reportedly Cut Rates After Things Didn't Go According To Plan...
The Russian Central Bank is reportedly planning to cut rates.Russian newspaper Izvestia is reporting that the central bank will cut rates by 2-3% from its current rate of 17% in the first quarter of...
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Here's Russia's Response To Obama's State Of The Union Address
Russia hit back on Wednesday at U.S. President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech, saying it showed the United States believes it is "number one" and seeks world domination.Obama said his country...
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UKRAINE OFFICIAL: Putin Is Escalating And Emotional — And Hasn't Spoken To...
In a closed session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a high-ranking Ukrainian official just shared the Ukrainian government's current view of its conflict with Russia:Fighting has...
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Russian Central Bank Admits Shock Rate Hike Is Fuelling The Country's Banking...
The Central Bank of Russia's (CBR's) shock decision last month to raise interest rates by 650 basis points in the middle of the night backfired and is now worsening the country's banking crisis.As...
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Russian Government Presents Putin With $21 Billion Plan To Tackle Crisis
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian ministers presented President Vladimir Putin with a 1.375 trillion rouble ($21 billion) anti-crisis plan on Wednesday, including 250 billion roubles from the National Wealth...
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The President Of Ukraine Is Carrying A Jagged Piece Of Yellow Metal Around...
President Poroschenko of Ukraine held up a jagged piece of yellow metal riddled with shrapnel holes at the World Economic Forum in Davos today and said it was a piece of a civilian bus that had been...
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The President Of Ukraine Nearly Broke Down In Tears As He Held Up A Piece Of...
A few minutes ago here at the World Economic Forum in Davos, President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine stood at a podium in the largest room here and held up a big sheet of metal, riddled with holes.It was...
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North Korea And Russia's Are Undermining America's 'Weaponization Of Finance'...
North Korea and Russia's latest liaison suggests that Washington's strategic weaponization of finance may not be working.Russia's Ministry for the Development of the Far East recently announced that...
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The US And China Are Locked In A Popularity Contest
The US and China are no stranger to competition. The two countries are the first and second largest economies in the world and the first and third largest militaries.Globally, however, people —...
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Watch Hillary Clinton's Putin Impression
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered up her impression of Russian President Vladimir Putin while speaking at an event in Canada on Wednesday.Clinton, who is widely seen as the Democratic...
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At Least 13 Killed In Eastern Ukraine Bus Shelling
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) - Shelling hit a trolleybus in war-torn east Ukraine's Donetsk on Thursday and killed at least 13 people, an official said, hours after peace talks in Berlin called for a...
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Russia Found A New Business Friend
Russia and North Korea keep getting closer.The two nations will set up a bilateral business council, which will "improve the interaction of North Korean and Russian business communities," the vice...
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Ukraine Just Lost A Crucial Airport To Russia-Backed Rebels, And The Photos...
After almost eight months of constant fighting between Ukrainian troops and Russian-backed separatists, the Ukrainian military lost control of the Donetsk Airport, according to the Los Angeles Times....
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These Are The Weapons That Russia Is Pouring Into Eastern Ukraine
As Russian military supplies continue to enter Ukraine, it becomes harder by the day for Putin to deny that Moscow is providing arms to the separatists. In fact Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, the US Army's top...
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Pro-Russian Separatists Refuse To Initiate Cease-Fire Talks With Ukrainian...
Pro-Russian separatists will press on with a military offensive in eastern Ukraine and will not initiate cease-fire talks with the Ukrainian authorities, their leader was quoted as saying on...
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