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Live updates from the 13th annual YES conference in Kyiv

But protesting FSA fighters have pushed US special forces troops out of al-Rai

James Miller, managing editor of The Interpreter, reports from the Yalta European Strategy (YES) Conference in Kyiv.

NATO Won’t Do More than Express Concern If Putin Attacks Another Former Soviet Republic, Illarionov Says 2016-09-17 17:21:55 Staunton, VA, September 15, 2016 –  If Vladimir Putin sends his forces to seize any of the former Soviet republics — including the three Baltic states which are NATO members — the Western alliance won’t do anything more […]

The Ukrainian military reported four attacks this morning.

A self-styled “Museum of Novorossiya” in St. Petersburg was raided by officers of the Investigative Committee and Federal Security Service this morning, possibly in connection with two IED blasts in the last year near traffic police posts.

Vladimir Markin, the spokesman for the Investigative Committee and a controversial figure associated with Russia’s most politicized criminal prosecutions, is reportedly stepping down from his position, says a TASS source.

Now that some Russians have put up statues in honor of past Russian dictators like Ivan the Terrible, something they had not done for 400 years, and Joseph Stalin, which they hadn’t done since Khrushchev’s expose, others are calling for naming a square in a closed city to honor one of the latter’s most horrific henchmen, Lavrenty Beria.

One Ukrainian soldier was killed and another wounded, while the Russian-backed separatists report six civilians wounded.

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