Ukraine crisis: How Vladimir Putin is winning the psychological war

As it emerges that the promised partial withdrawal of Russian troops from the Ukrainian border has not taken place, Western powers are reduced to awaiting Moscow's next move.

Vladimir Putin's behaviour over Ukraine offers a masterclass in how to conduct psychological warfare Photo: Mikhail Klimentyev/ Getty

By David Blair

More than a century ago, Lenin told his fellow revolutionaries that demoralising the enemy by “issuing the first agitational leaflet” amounted to waging war by other means. 

Italian Unemployment Just Hit a New Record

By Jordan Weissmann

That guy has nowhere to be, I promise.

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images

It’s been a while, thankfully, since the eurozone was in full-blown meltdown mode. But there’s still plenty of slow-burning economic misery in the common currency area.

Has Obamacare Turned the Corner?

Reuters 

 

The big Obamacare deadline has passed, and Democrats are exultant. Monday was the last day to enroll for 2014 coverage under the Affordable Care Act, and more than 7 million Americans—7,041,000, according to White House Press Secretary Jay Carney—have signed up for health insurance through the federal and state insurance exchanges. That exceeds the original goal the government had set for first-year enrollment (which had been lowered to 6 million when the website proved disastrously unfunctional).