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UKRAINE, East – Obama is reported to be considering sending more lethal weapons to Kiev, as the conflict continues in the East. Nineteen Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the last twenty four hours mainly during the ongoing battle for Debaltseve which the rebels say they have encircled.
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FOOTAGE released one hour ago
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FOOTAGE shot three weeks ago, posted on YouTube
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The decline in relations between Russia and the West began with the collapse of the Soviet Union, when Moscow having turned its back on Communism looked to its former Cold War foe for guidance.
The year was 1991, and what followed in the months and years after can today be seen for what it is – a great lost opportunity.
Washington sent in its academics, including one Jeffrey Sachs who came up with a revolutionary idea of his own called shock therapy – opening up the state and its assets to market forces.
Within seven years, a superpower was bankrupt and today’s Russia is arguably still suffering from the after effects both socially and economically.
Russians regard that dark period in their history as a lost decade. It was a time when a forward thinking and humanitarian leader like Boris Yelsin, who pulled his troops out of Grozny…
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GOODBYE AFGHANISTAN, 15 February 1989 Source Tumblr
How will History remember Mikhail Gorbachev the man who lost Russia her empire?
It is said Russians have rejected him, arguing that he did the job the West had wanted all along.
In the West, it is said that he prevented the Cold War from ending as a hot one.
When this man came to power, Russia was embroiled in a friutless war to pacify Afghanistan, and having listened to what the mothers of the empire were telling him, he pulled his army out.
The evil empire had spent eight years there and left behind Najibullah.
He came from a generation that did not believe the propaganda fed to them by the state that portrayed the West as the enemy that wanted to destroy Russia, so he did not have any difficulty in opening a dialogue with America and encouraging reforms around the idea of glasnost. For that he was…
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The pictures unfolding on our television screens show well armed ‘professional’ troops patrolling the key sites of the Crimea. By all accounts, the atmosphere is calm and everyone is carrying on their daily duties with some waiving Russian flags, others Ukranian.
When they are asked whether they are Russian, the troops do not reply. Since the takeover in Kiev, hundreds of such men have arrived in the Crimea and have occupied key strategic areas. Initially, they were there to protect the Russian speakers who form the majority of the province but the longer they are there the more this looks like a complete takeover of what to Vladimir Putin is a vital part of his nation’s identity. Russia has been accused by the Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen of putting peace at risk in Europe. The US President Barack Obama has threatened Moscow with economic and political…
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PICTURES: Putin above and in the second picture also – guess who .. he’s not the boy
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What remains of Donetsk Airport from the sky and what it once looked like
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