Over the past few days, the media commentators have had their say about the cease-fire accords reached in Minsk last week.  ...

Since the Soviet collapse - as Moscow had feared - [the NATO] alliance has spread eastward, expanding along a line from Estonia ...

Russia’s power play for Ukraine takes a page out of the Gipper’s playbook. We should have seen it coming.

Twenty-five years ago this November, an East German Politburo member bungled the announcement of what were meant to be limited ...

Hopefully, the shaky truce between Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Petro Poroshenko, brokered in Minsk by Angela Merkel, will hold.

Once again, we may be drawn into an absurd war, against those who should be our allies in other battles that are infinitely more ...

Earlier on Monday a group of thirty journalists at the Donetsk airport witnessed shelling carried out from Kiev’s positions

(RIA Novosti – Donetsk, February 15, 2015) The cessation of artillery fire in the majority of urban centres of the ...

Ukrainian troops and rebels in the country’s east have been blaming each other for sporadic ceasefire violations. Both sides say ...

The guns in Ukraine have not cooled down yet but the Minsk 2 peace accord is already being predictably assailed in Washington by ...