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Sebastian Kurz, Austria’s foreign minister, said that the OSCE would expand their monitoring mission to cover the entire Donbass.

The Front National leader claims that the internationally condemned referendum in March, 2014, was legal.

Marine Le Pen, head of the French far-right National Front, has appealed to Russian banks to fund her election camp as she is sued over a previous loan from the now-bankrupt Czech-Russian Bank.

Given that Vladimir Putin has signaled that any serious reforms in the near term are unlikely or even impossible, ever more Russians are predicting revolution, especially as that country enters the centenary of the two revolutions of 1917.

In year-end clashes between police and militants in the North Caucasus, 6 people killed and 4 wounded. A man with an explosive was stopped at Sheremeytovo Airport.

The Ukrainian military reports 38 attacks yesterday.

Pavel Pryanikov says that the three most important trends of the past year likely to cast a shadow on Russian domestic politics in the year ahead are the return to high office of the methodologists, the end of Russian nationalism, and the revolt of the regions.

Three US senators send message that Russian aggression needs to be checked

Disruption to water supplies continues in two Ukrainian-controlled front-line settlements after damage caused by shelling over Christmas.

Russian propagandists say that the Kremlin leader was not involved in the Russian doping program, something improbable on its face, given Putin’s micromanagement of many affairs.