BBC(World)January 5, 2016
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has called for talks with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin so that the two countries can negotiate a peace treaty.
The two never signed a treaty after the end of World War Two because of a dispute over four islands.
editorNovember 22, 2017
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Saun Walker(Guardian)January 5, 2016
“At the start it seemed cold, depressing and scary, but we soon realised how nice the people are here,” said Spivak, in the kitchen of the small apartment the family rents in Magadan. Working as a supermarket cashier in Gorlovka, she earned about £60 a month; doing the same job in Magadan she earns £300.
“It’s just like in the Soviet Union – everyone is so helpful and friendly. I miss home but I am delighted I am not part of Ukraine,” she added.
LobeLogNovember 22, 2017
Until recently, few of us woke up worrying about the threat of nuclear war. Such dangers seemed like Cold War relics, associated with outmoded practices like building fallout shelters and “duck and cover” drills.
Gil Hoffman(JPost)January 5, 2016
Russian President Vladimir Putin is Israelis’ person of the year, according to a Panels Research poll taken for The Jerusalem Post and its Hebrew sister publication Ma’ariv Sof Hashavua.
The poll of 527 respondents representing a statistical sample of the Jewish adult population, was taken Tuesday and has an error margin of ±4.3 percent.
ReasonNovember 22, 2017
Julia Ioffe of The Atlantic seems to have succeeded in convincing the world that WikiLeaks was, and admitted to being, pro-Trump, pro-Russia.
Zach Bikus(Gallup)January 5, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Conflict-weary Ukrainians gave their lives in 2015 the worst ratings that Gallup has measured yet in that country. On a ladder scale with steps numbered from 0 to 10, with 10 being the best possible life, Ukrainians on average rate their current lives at a 4.0. Ukrainians’ optimism about the future also dimmed last year, with their ratings of their lives in five years sinking to a new low of 5.2.
TNINovember 22, 2017
We are supposed to buy into the notion that white blue-collar workers in deindustrializing areas of the Rust Belts of the United States and the UK spent the last days of the 2016 Brexit campaign and the American presidential race getting their news from RT and Sputnik while exchanging tweets with Russia-friendly trolls.
Jeffrey Taylor(The Atlantic)January 5, 2016
This second review, by the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Taylor notes that World Order “gives another clue about how the world looks from Russia. For Russians, to a degree unthinkable in the United States, foreign policy is also domestic policy, not least because their Near Abroad includes Ukraine, with which their ties of blood, history, and culture remain intimate.”
consortium newsNovember 21, 2017
The Russia-gate hysteria has jumped the Atlantic with Europeans blaming Russia for Brexit and Catalonian discontent. But what about Israeli influence operations or, for that matter, American ones, asks Robert Parry.
Gordon Hahn(gordonhahn.com)January 4, 2016
Two years after the Maidan ‘revolution of dignity’ it is now clear that the Western-backed overthrow of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was not a revolution and that it was in vain—however one wishes to characterize it.
TNINovember 21, 2017
Can efforts to protect American democracy end up threatening it? In the ongoing investigations into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, the answer may well be yes…
Jen Judson(Defense News)January 4, 2016
The year ahead will carve a more defined path for NATO countries looking to upgrade or replace air and missile defense systems. Here’s a look at the state of play in several countries that are close to making critical procurement decisions in a missile defense market projected to be worth more than $100 billion in the next 15 years…
Monthly ReviewNovember 20, 2017
It has been amusing to watch the New York Timesand other mainstream media outlets express their dismay over the rise and spread of “fake news.”
VLADIMIR SOLDATKIN(Reuters)January 4, 2016
A new appraisal names the United States as one of the threats to Russia’s national security for the first time, a sign of how relations with the west have deteriorated in recent years.
The document, “About the Strategy of National Security of Russian Federation”, was signed by President Vladimir Putin on New Year’s Eve. It replaces a 2009 version, endorsed by then- President Dmitry Medvedev, the current prime minister, which mentioned neither the United States not NATO.
Bloomberg ViewNovember 20, 2017
Recent revelations have simple, credible explanations that are overshadowed by conspiracy theories and hype.
Editor(ACEWA)December 30, 2015
Thanks to all our readers and subscribers for your support over the past year; the next edition of the ACEWA Newsletter will be out Monday, January 4.
Happy New Year to All!
irrussianalityNovember 20, 2017
If Mrs May really thinks that Russia is undermining the international order in general and more specifically British democracy, then shouldn’t she be reconsidering Brexit?
Alexei Kalmykov and Darya Korsunskaya(Reuters)December 30, 2015
Dec 30 The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany have agreed to extend the Minsk peace accord on Ukraine into 2016, the Kremlin said in a statement on Wednesday, following a phone call between the four leaders.
Extension of the agreement was widely expected as a ceasefire has been broadly holding in eastern Ukraine since September, though sporadic clashes have continued between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government forces and many of the agreement’s terms are far from being implemented.
Chronicle of Higher EducationNovember 16, 2017
Ronald Suny says Stephen F. Cohen “tries to fight all windmills at once” but adds that he is “rather courageous” and “covers for more timid colleagues”….