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UkraineAlert

Jun 23, 2014

US, EU Should Use Sanctions to Push Russia for a Single Base Price for Gas Sales to Europe

By Irena Chalupa

Former US Ambassador Bryza Urges Stepped-Up Effort to End Political Pricing by Kremlin and Gazprom  Russia has unsheathed its gas weapon again, demanding higher prices this spring from Ukraine and announcing last week a cutoff in sales to its neighbor unless paid for in advance. (As Moscow twists Ukraine’s arm over gas, it has retreated […]

Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance

New Atlanticist

Jun 23, 2014

A Beginning of Dialogue? Russia’s Ivanov and Germany’s Ischinger Discuss the Ukraine Crisis

By James Rupert

Four months into the Russia-Ukraine crisis, public discourse between Russia and the transatlantic West is not just polarized, it’s even toxic. Last month, when Ukraine and Romania barred Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitriy Rogozin’s jet from their airspace, he tweeted that he would visit those countries next time in a strategic bomber. Last week, Ukrainian […]

Germany Russia

UkraineAlert

Jun 23, 2014

The New Ordeal of Nadiya Savchenko

By Irena Chalupa

Ukraine Military’s Most Famous Female Pilot is Now a Captive of Separatist Rebels She looks tired, her face slightly puffy, but her blue eyes are calm and clear, and she appears utterly unafraid. Dressed in military fatigues, her hair cut short, she sits in the corner of a white-tiled room, handcuffed to a set of […]

Russia Ukraine

MENASource

Jun 23, 2014

Top News: Jazeera Journalists Sentenced to Seven to Ten Years in Jail

By MENASource

Three Al Jazeera journalists were sentenced to seven years in a maximum security prison in Egypt on Monday after a court convicted them of helping a “terrorist organization” and spreading false news.

New Atlanticist

Jun 23, 2014

Ukraine News Roundup | June 26

By Irena Chalupa

US Must Move Now from the American Interest Ukraine To Sign EU Deal That Sparked Revolution from Time Putin’s Dwindling Options In Ukraine from Current Politics In Ukraine Blog Russian Pensions Paid for Putin’s Crimea Grab from Bloomberg View Russian Riddle: EU Can’t Agree On A Natural Gas Strategy from Der Spiegel Propaganda Wars: Russian Twitter Account Takes On American “Progress” In Iraq from Global […]

Ukraine

AfricaSource

Jun 23, 2014

EAC Railway: A Microcosm of China’s Foreign Policy towards Africa

By Kevin Gilmartin

On May 11 China’s Prime Minister Li Keqiang formally signed a deal with a number of East African leaders for the Export Import Bank of China to finance the first stage of a modern railway network that would connect the major cities of the East African Community (EAC)—Bujumbura, Juba, Kampala, Nairobi and Kigali—with the coast. […]

China East Africa

MENASource

Jun 23, 2014

Top News: Kerry Meets with Sisi on Sunday and US Aid is Released; Jazeera Journalists Sentenced to Jail on Monday

By EgyptSource

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Cairo on Sunday to hold talks with Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The United States has released about $575 million of the suspended funds to Egypt over the past ten days, Reuters reported an unnamed State Department official as saying. Meahwhile, three Al Jazeera journalists were sentenced to […]

US Patriot missile battery in Turkey, February 4, 2013

NATOSource

Jun 23, 2014

NATO Allies Mull Ending Patriot Mission in Turkey

By World Bulletin

NATO allies have started preliminary consultations on concluding the Patriot missile mission in Turkey at the end of 2014, German media reported on Sunday.

Germany Missile Defense

MENASource

Jun 23, 2014

EconSource: Libya approves overdue budget

By EconSource

Follow the latest in economic news and developments about the Arab transition countries. 

Lithuania's energy weapon: The Baltic state will lease the Independence, a "floating storage and re-gasification unit" built by South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries, and owned by Norway's Hoegh LNG. It will anchor in the port of Klaipeda and process gas from arriving LNG carriers. (www.hoeghlng.com)

New Atlanticist

Jun 23, 2014

Standing Up to Gazprom: What Ukraine Can Learn from Lithuania

By Agnia Grigas

As Russia Wields its Gas Weapon Against Ukraine, it Has Cut its Price to Lithuania. How Did That Happen? Russia and its state gas company, Gazprom, cut their gas supply to Ukraine last week amid a dispute that includes Gazprom’s demand that Ukrainians pay $485 per thousand meters of gas – an 81-percent price increase. […]

Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance