This article analyzes the implications of the Crimean crisis of 2014 from the perspective of Ukraine's domestic policies. It is argued that despite the military intervention of Russia, it was Ukrainian governance that created the preconditions for domestic crisis. The weak political institutions of ...
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Natural gas prices have risen in Europe because of the crisis in Ukraine's Crimean peninsula. Christopher Cruise has more in this report from VOA's Henry Ridgwell in London. Russia provides about 25 percent of Europe's natural gas. Ukraine stands between Russia, the supplier, and Europe, the...
The President and the Executive Yuan Must Solve the Rancid Oil CrisisChina Times editorial (Taipei, Taiwan, ROC)A TranslationSeptember 16, 2014 Summary: The 2011 plasticizing agent crisis was followed by the 2013 contaminated oil crisis, which was in turn followed by the current rancid oil crisis...
The crisis began a week ago when Ukraine’s parliament voted to oust President Yanukovych. The vote followed three months of street protests. Thedemonstrations7began in November after the president backed out of a trade deal with the European Union. His move was seen as an effort to strengthen...
Crimean War Episodes: Operation Tiger Rifle, 2014:Based on the evolving crisis in the Ukraine. A combined USN task force with support from Romania-based USAF assets must kick down the Russian A2/AD door (including formidable Yakhont and S-400 batteries) and sink the bulk of Russia’s Black...
With its brinksmanship, bellicose rhetoric, threats and counter-threats, the crisis over Moscow’s takeover of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula seems to have whisked the world back to the Cold War, when the United States and the Soviet Union squared off in a high-stakes standoff that divided the...
Choppy, 形容词,意思是波浪起伏的,突变的。Efforts to find the missing Malaysian flight MH 370 were focused beneath the choppy surface of the southern Indian Ocean. 针对失踪马航MH370的搜寻努力集中在波涛汹涌的南印度洋海面下。With the Crimean crisis and global tech stock sell-off, stock markets ...
At the leadership levels within the Security Service of the Ukraine (Sluzhba bezpeky Ukrainyor SBU) before the Crimean seizure and Donbas conflict there had long been alarming signs and indications. The first head of the SBU, Yehven Marchuk was a career Soviet Ukrainian KGB officer who had ri...
Over the weekend, Merkel said, "Truly, the Ukraine crisis is in no way a regional issue. It affects all of us." She said that she was particularly concerned that Russia would not stop with the invasion of Ukraine, but would go to the Balkans. ...