Contents tagged with Russia

  • Atlantic Council - Ukraine Crisis Is Not Only About Ukraine

    The Ukraine crisis is not only about Ukraine. Far more urgent for humanity as a whole are the commitments made by Russia and other UN Security Council members with regard to Ukraine's accession to the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty (NPT) following the Soviet Union's collapse. The NPT aims to curtail the spread of weapons of mass destruction.

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  • World Affairs - Ukraine's Orange Blues

    Russia and Ukraine: A Legal Perspective

    An interview with Thomas D. Grant, senior research fellow of Wolfson College and senior associate of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, both at the University of Cambridge.

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  • BBC - Heard the Russian jokes about Parmesan and condoms?

    Russia is destroying Western cheese, and considering a ban on Western condoms - and the Russian internet is reacting.

    Last month President Vladimir Putin endorsed a scheme to bulldoze, bury and burn a whole range of imported Western foods, as part of the ongoing reaction against sanctions the West has imposed on Russia. Videos of the destruction, like the mountain of foreign cheese squashed into the ground in Belgorod, 400 miles (600km) south of Moscow, are now famous.

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  • Russia has a rescue plan for Ukraine

    The conflict handcrafted by Russia is slowly burning in Eastern Ukraine.While Europe is preoccupied with their own problems, Russia is sparing no efforts in pushing forward its agenda.Russian government controlled TV channels have been actively talking about the” Ukrainian Rescue” committee.   The committee has recently held a press conference in Moscow to introduce themselves to the media.Strangely one of the leading members of this new body is the former Prime Minister, Nikolai Azarov, who …