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NATOSource

May 2, 2014

NATO Countries Planning Comms Mission in Ukraine

By Paul D. Shinkman, U.S. News & World Report

NATO countries may be ramping up their war of words in the coming weeks in Ukraine, where Russian propaganda flows freely into the east while ill-prepared security forces can’t even talk to one another.

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New Atlanticist

May 2, 2014

Despite Death Threats, Here is the News From Donetsk . . . .

By Irena Chalupa

Oleksiy Matsuka, 31 has been for a decade one of Donetsk’s most prominent journalists. In 2003, he founded Novosti Donbassa (Donbas News), a website to cover his home region. Matsuka soon built a reputation as a courageous investigative journalist, writing stories that most journalists in the Donbas (Donetsk Basin) region avoided. Last week, the Paris-based […]

Russia Ukraine

New Atlanticist

May 2, 2014

Ukraine News Roundup | May 2

By Irena Chalupa

Here’s some of what we’re reading on Ukraine today: Beyond Crimea: What Vladimir Putin Really Wants from World Affairs Can the West find the Energy To Deter Russia? from Washington Post Putin’s American Toady at ‘The Nation’ Gets Even Toadier from The New Republic Portraits from Ukraine: Lesya Orobets’s Campaign from The New Yorker Ukraine: […]

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MENASource

May 2, 2014

Top News: Cairo and Sinai Hit by Three Blasts on Friday Killing Four

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s Interior Ministry said that four people were killed and twelve were injured in three bombings that occurred in Cairo and South Sinai on Friday.

MENASource

May 2, 2014

Top News: Tunisia Electoral Law Approved in its Entirety, Election Preparations to Begin

By MENASource

On Thursday, Tunisia’s National Constituent Assembly (NCA) approved a new electoral law with 132 votes for, eleven against, and nine abstentions. Two remaining points of contention included provisions regarding gender parity on electoral lists and the banning of former officials from the Ben Ali government.

MENASource

May 2, 2014

A New Phase of Counterfeiting Cognizance

By Amr Hamzawy

The vast majority of Egyptians today, both men and women, are bombarded with a relentless media barrage that falsely exaggerates the seriousness and competitiveness of the upcoming presidential election and ignores the glaring truths surrounding it. The former defense minister is running for president after the military establishment intervened in politics in July of 2013. […]

North Africa
REUTERS/Baz Ratner

UkraineAlert

May 2, 2014

Why Slaviansk? Ukraine is Attacking the Command Center of Russian-Backed Militias

By James Rupert

Ukraine has launched its most serious counter-attack yet on Russian-backed separatist militias at Slaviansk, a relatively minor city in eastern Ukraine. Slaviansk, by all evidence, serves as the main command center for the armed groups that have seized towns in Donetsk and Luhansk provinces. The Ukrainian operation appears “well mounted with concern for the lives […]

Russia Ukraine

MENASource

May 2, 2014

EconSource: ‘Friends Of Yemen’ announce new structure to support next phase of Yemen’s transition

By EconSource

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

MENASource

May 2, 2014

Could a Maliki Win Hurt Democracy in Iraq?

By Ryan J. Suto

Iraqis went to the polls on April 30 to elect a new Council of Representatives, which will produce a new government and prime minister. These elections come in the face of intense sectarian violence and bring forth deeply important questions about how the government should address these and other issues moving forward.

Iraq

UkraineAlert

May 1, 2014

Ukrainian Singer Ruslana Moves a Washington Crowd

By James Rupert

Her Chances of Moving Policy or Preventing a War Are Less Clear While song and emotion come effortlessly for Ukrainian musician and pro-democracy activist Ruslana Lyzhychko, she says she’s nervous about speaking publicly in English, a language with which she struggles. But Wednesday night she delivered a meticulously practiced appeal for Ukraine to 900 of […]

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