Tag: Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with participants in the youth educational forum at the Seliger youth camp near Lake Seliger, some 450 kilometres (281 miles) northwest of Moscow, in Tver region, Russia, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

National Security

Ukraine: rebels fire on border guard vessel

Jim Heintz · August 31, 2014 11:06 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a terrestrial globe presented him as a gift at the Seliger youth camp near Lake Seliger, 280 miles northwest of Moscow, on Friday, Aug. 29, 2014.(AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Dianne Feinstein: More sanctions might not work against Russia

Rebecca Berg · August 31, 2014 3:14 pm

A pro-Russian rebel aims his rifle as he observes the territory in the rebel-held town of Starobesheve, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Sen. Bob Menendez: Arm Ukrainians to fight Russia

Rebecca Berg · August 31, 2014 2:29 pm

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, right, talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during an European People's Party summit ahead of the EU summit in Brussels, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014. EU leaders, in a one day summit, are set to decide who will get the prestigious job as the 28-nation bloc's foreign policy chief for the next five years. They will also discuss the current situation in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

EU threatens Russia with more sanctions

JUERGEN BAETZJIM HEINTZ · August 31, 2014 12:24 am

Ukrainian army personnel carry an Ukrainian government soldier injured by tank fire to an ambulance in the rebel-held town of Starobesheve, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014. Half an hour later the soldier died. Ukrainian government forces have succumbed to a sequence of military failures and seen their holdings in the conflict-ridden east shrink in recent days as Russian-backed rebels continue their fast-paced offensive. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Pro-Russia rebels confident after making gains

Peter Leonard · August 30, 2014 7:11 pm

Ukrainian civilian plane crashes in Algeria

Washington Examiner · August 30, 2014 11:03 am

Washington Secrets

Zogby Report Card: Extra credit on Syria and for tan suit

Paul Bedard · August 30, 2014 9:00 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with the press after meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Minsk, Belarus on Wednesday. Putin said there was no talk of a cease-fire because Russia is not part of the conflict. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

While Obama is distracted by ISIS, Russia and China pounce

Charles Hoskinson · August 30, 2014 9:00 am

Russian-backed rebels aim to push west along coast

PETER LEONARDJUERGEN BAETZ · August 30, 2014 4:07 am

Captured Russian paratroopers are seen in this image taken from video in Kiev on Wednesday Aug. 27. 2014. Ten Russian paratroopers were captured this week in Ukraine, adding to a growing body of evidence that Russia, despite its denials, is sending regular troops and weapons to support the separatists in their increasingly deadly fight against Ukrainian forces. (AP Photo/Channel 5) UKRAINE OUT TV OUT

Families of Russian troops in Ukraine want answers

Laura Mills · August 29, 2014 7:26 pm

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Tomasz Sikorski arrives holding a basket of apples to protest against Russia's ban on food imports, during an informal meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Ministers, in Milan, Italy, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. European Union foreign ministers on Friday were set to weigh adopting a tougher stance on the Ukraine crisis amid increasing calls to beef up economic sanctions against Russia. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

EU ministers call for new sanctions against Russia

Juergen Baetz · August 29, 2014 7:12 pm

Short Russia; Lose a Bundle

Geoffrey Norman · August 29, 2014 5:10 pm