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Ukraine Set To Receive Humanitarian Aid From Russia, But To What End?

08/12/2014 Published on Forbes.com
Earlier today, Russia dispatched 280 trucks carrying humanitarian aid to eastern Ukraine. Television images showed a long line of tractor-trailers stretched along a road. A Russian Orthodox priest was shown sprinkling the trucks with holy water before their departure. And…

Putin Strikes Back With His Own Sanctions

08/07/2014 Published on Forbes.com
It has been less than two weeks since the US and EU hit Russia with their toughest sanctions yet and Putin has responded with some sanctions of his own. Today, Dmitri Medvedev, the Russian Prime Minister, announced that Russia would…

President Obama Announces Tougher Sanctions On Russia In Press Conference

07/29/2014 Published on Forbes.com
Brace yourself European companies – you may be taking a hit. Twenty-eight European national ambassadors met this morning in Brussels to discuss the harshest sanctions yet aimed at the Kremlin. The European Union—Russia’s largest trading partner—is expected to move as…

MH17, Israel invasion: Mr. Obama, abandoning our allies isn’t a strategy, it’s a disaster

07/22/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
“We have enormous input about this that points fingers,” Secretary of State John Kerry told CNN’s State of the Union Sunday. “It is pretty clear that this was a system from Russia, transferred to separatists. We know with confidence that…

President Obama Needs To Stand With Our Allies

07/21/2014 Published on Forbes.com
Thursday July 17 will go down in history as one of terrible tragedy. The crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 after a BUK missile launcher struck it over Ukraine took the lives of 298 innocent people. All the evidence available…

Can Anything Stop Putin? The US And EU Need A Coherent Foreign Policy

05/16/2014 Published on Forbes.com
It has now been several months since the Ukrainian protests began on the Maidan in Kiev and nearly two since Russia annexed Crimea. Through it all, the US and the EU has continually failed to find a way to properly…

Putin Is Undermining Ukraine’s Democracy — And Obama Is Letting Him

05/08/2014 Published on Forbes.com
Vladimir Putin’s disdain for democracy is no secret. He has quashed dissent at home, and the passage on Tuesday of a new “Blogger Law” is only the latest move by the Kremlin to control media and police the internet. As…

Divided GOP only thing Obama, Democrats have going for them before 2014 midterms

04/30/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
April 29, 2014: House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, joined by Rep. Renee Ellmers, R-N.C., talks to reporters following a Republican strategy meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington.AP Tuesday’s Washington Post/ABC News poll will not be welcome news to a…

In Kiev, Biden Tells Russia To Pull Back

04/22/2014 Published on Forbes.com
“It is time for Russia to stop talking and start acting—act on the commitments they made. We need to see these kinds of concrete steps,” Vice President Biden said in Kiev today. “Time is short in which to make progress.”…

Unrest Flares In Ukraine Once More

04/07/2014 Published on Forbes.com
After a few weeks of relative calm in Ukraine, yesterday brought renewed unrest in Eastern Ukraine. There were coordinated demonstrations by thousands of pro-Russian protesters in Donetsk, Kharkiv and Luhansk. For good reason, these protests have reignited fears in Kiev…