... (Trump's people have distinctly avoided going into detailed or adequate explanations for this decision). Trump also just recently said at a press conference that he is considering lifting sanctions on Russia and recognizing its annexation of Crimea.
Trump also doesn’t think that there is enough evidence to blame Russia for the downing of MH17.
Trump defended Putin against accusations that he was behind the murders of numerous Russian journalists critical of Putin.
Most recently,...
... of those who made up the delegation were also among the members of parliament who had visited last year. Just like last year, they were led by Member of the French National Assembly for French Residents Overseas Thierry Mariani. And like last year, Crimea was in the spotlight: visiting the peninsula, the guests attended a variety of Navy Day celebrations and special events. They also gave a few speeches of their own. Has the French parliamentary rhetoric changed one year on? Was it a good idea for ...
Author: Vitaly Naumkin, Academic Director of the RAS Institute for Oriental Studies, RAS Corresponding Member. What is happening in Crimea now can only be referred to as a massive violation of human rights. Human rights are being trampled on by those who tend to teach others how to honor these rights – the United States and other western countries. Crimean citizens are stripped ...
... security cooperation on the regional stage against the Russian hegemon.
Obviously, this naval task force would be designed to offset Russia’s military footprint in the Black Sea region, which has dramatically increased following the annexation of Crimea and the ongoing fortification of the peninsula[2]. The Russian Black Sea Fleet has been slated for modernization since late 2000s, with the induction of new surface and submarine platforms, some of which being already dispatched (2 diesel SSK equipped ...
... lasting many weeks. The partially completed modernisation has created the illusion of effectiveness, whereas in fact the Air Force is a weak link in the unbalanced and overburdened Russian military machine.
The claim that the special operation to seize Crimea was undertaken without the use of an air bridge simply does not correspond with reality.
Crimea.
Pavel Baev has an inadequate understanding of how the operation in Crimea was conducted. Until February/beginning of March 2014 an air bridge was ...
Comment on Brian Whitmore's RFE/RL podcast, “The Daily Vertical: Return Of The Russian World> http://www.rferl.org/content/daily-vertical-return-of-russian-world/27340254.html
Not much understanding of Russkiy Mir or its role in Russian foreign policy in this podcast.
Russkiy Mir is often represented as some new, strange, perhaps threatening concept cooked up in the Russian Foreign Ministry as part of a new Russian imperial project. Not so! Russkiy Mir existed long before even...
... private space taxis are not expected to take place until at least 2017. Now Nasa says it has been forced to extend its contract with Roscosmos at a cost of $490m – despite the tense political relationship between the two nations - the invasion of Crimea in 2014 led to a ban on Nasa/Roscosmos collaborations. Nasa administrator Charles Bolden has written a letter to US Congress saying it had been forced into this position because of "continued reductions in the president's funding requests"....
Likeminded People Have Found Each Other?
An interesting event in Russian–French relations took place in July 2015 when a group of delegates from the French National Assembly went against the official foreign policy line in Paris and visited Crimea. This was immediately followed by an announcement from another European political party, the Italian Movimento Cinque Stelle (Five Star Movement), that it too sought to send an envoy to Russia. Is it fair to assume that the Kremlin has acquired ...
... War in Ukraine: Breaking the enemy’s ability to resist”, by András Rácz, a senior research fellow at the institute
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. As the title indicates, the subject of the paper is the phenomenon of “hybrid war”. Following Russia’s accession of Crimea and the start of military actions between Ukrainian security forces and units of the non-recognised Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics in 2014, this phenomenon has attracted the close attention of political, military, academic and journalistic ...
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structural reforms
. The economic growth resumed in 2010 at about 5% a year, but in 2012 froze at 0.3%
[3]
. The situation in the country has become critical, and the beginning of military operations in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions coupled with Crimea’s reunification with Russia only exacerbated it.
Crimea and Donbass: The price paid
In purely economic terms, the impact of Crimea’s secession from Ukraine has been relatively insignificant, and is estimated at about 3.8% of total GDP ...
