Turkish police have arrested two Russians who they suspect of involvement in the assassination of Caucasus Emirate fighter and fundraiser Abdulvakhid Edelgireyev in Istanbul last year.
ON MY MIND What do nukes and drugs have in common? They both illustrate Russia’s efforts to play the role of the international community’s persistent spoiler. When the nuclear security summit convened in Washington in March, bringing together 52 heads of state, Russia opted out. Not only is Moscow not interested in nuclear disarmament, it […]
The UN has called for the immediate release of a staff member detained in Donetsk
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It’s been nearly 900 days since ordinary Ukrainians first took to the streets to demand that their government sign an Association Agreement with the European Union. The Euromaidan Revolution is not over…
Corruption isn’t just a matter of good governance anymore. It’s now a national security issue and needs to be treated as such.
ON MY MIND Russian state television’s botched “expose” of opposition leader and anticorruption crusader Aleksei Navalny is telling on a number of levels. That the Kremlin would commission a hit job on Navalny isn’t surprising — they’ve been doing that for years. That they would accuse him of being in the employ of Western powers […]
Rada Speaker Volodymyr Groysman has proposed a list of candidates for Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers as negotiations to make Groysman the new prime minister continue.
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Not only high profile political crimes remain unresolved; at least half of all crimes are not solved, experts say, because law-enforcers have stopped opening criminal cases or publishing statistics.
