President Petro Poroshenko  at the White House. Photo Ludo Segers
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Ukrainian President Poroshenko asks US military assistance during visit to Washington

The high-level visit of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to Washington on 18 September attracted much greater attention in the US capital than any other recent visit of a foreign head of state. His busy schedule saw President Poroshenko in the morning addressing the House of Representatives and the Senate in a joint meeting of US Congress before heading to the White House to meet President Barack Obama in the afternoon. […]

Yevgeny Primakov
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Primakov clan’s trap for the West or a little about Putin’s peace roadmap

In the last essay of the “Putin’s Russia” series we have reviewed the assumptions that suggest that namely Rogozin’s clan was the main architect and executor behind the Ukraine’s events. Therefore it would be natural to explore which Russian government clans are the most active in opposing the aggression towards Ukraine, and how they do it. […]

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Russian foreign ministry speaks of protecting Russian-speakers’ rights in Baltic states

The foreign ministry of the Russian Federation has voiced calls to protect the rights of Russian-speakers in Latvia and Estonia, news agency UNIAN reports. […]

Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine
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Russian Soldiers – cheap and luckless (I)

Ten years ago on 3 September 2004 at exactly 13:00 in Beslan, North Ossetia, Chechen terrorists allowed the bodies of local people who had been killed and left lying there for three days in front of a school, to be gathered up. On 1 September the 34 Chechen terrorists had taken about 1200 teenagers and children hostage in the school. […]

Linas Linkevičius
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Lithuanian foreign minister urges to speed up EU energy integration at NB8 meeting

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that the European Union has to create a common energy market as soon as possible, with the Baltic region fully integrated into it. […]