Moscow 'Concerned' Over Treatment Of Russians In Estonia

 

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Armed men, believed to be Russian soldiers, stand guard outside a Ukrainian military base in Simferopol March 19, 2014. Defying Ukrainian protests and Western sanctions, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty in Moscow on Tuesday making Crimea part of Russia again, but said he did not plan to seize any other regions of Ukraine.

Russia fully supported the protection of the rights of linguistic minorities, a Moscow diplomat told the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, according to a summary of the session issued by the U.N.'s information department.

Russia Just Warned The US That It May Play The 'Iran Card' On Ukraine

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A senior Russian diplomat signaled a possible shift Wednesday in Russia's position on the ongoing Iranian nuclear talks amid tensions with the United States and other Western countries, according to The Associated Press.

Three Years of Revolt: What Has Become of Syria's Revolutionaries

By Christoph Reuter and Raniah Salloum

Christoph Reuter

They have fled, they are hungry, they are doing what they can to survive: The Syrian civil war has caused great suffering since the protests agains President Bashar Assad began three years ago. We revisit some of those people we have met in our reporting.

Washington’s back-to-the-future military policies in Africa

 America’s new model for expeditionary warfare

Nick Turse

 

Lion Forward Teams? Echo Casemate? Juniper Micron?

You could be forgiven if this jumble of words looks like nonsense to you. It isn’t. It’s the language of the U.S. military’s simmering African interventions; the patois that goes with a set of missions carried out in countries most Americans couldn’t locate on a map; the argot of conflicts now primarily fought by proxies and a former colonial power on a continent that the U.S. military views as a hotbed of instability and that hawkish pundits increasingly see as a growth area for future armed interventions.

Reserve Currency and Military Power: Lessons from the Sterling Era and the Future of America’s Military Might

Do states with reserve currency status hold the upper hand when it comes to maintaining their military might? Rosella Cappella believes so. To help illustrate her point – and what it might mean for the United States – she looks at how Britain once used its ‘Sterling supremacy’ as a ‘power multiplier’.

By Rosella Cappella