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MENASource

Feb 16, 2016

Top News: Egypt Court Overturns Sentence for Policeman Convicted in Sabbagh Murder

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s Court of Cassation overturned on Sunday a 15-year jail sentence issued to a police officer for the fatal shooting of protester Shaimaa al-Sabbagh during a peaceful march last year in downtown Cairo. The court ordered a new trial of the Central Security Forces (CSF) officer Yaseen Mohamed Hatem in front of a different district […]

MENASource

Feb 16, 2016

A Return to Trade Protection in Egypt

By Mohsin Khan and Elissa Miller

Egypt began a slow process of moving from a state-dominated closed economy with high tariffs on imports and foreign exchange controls to a more open and market-friendly one in the 1990s. This process gained momentum in mid-2004 when the government of former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif launched a number of ambitious and far-reaching economic reforms. […]

Economy & Business North Africa

MENASource

Feb 16, 2016

Top News: Libya’s presidential council announces revised unity government

By MENASource

Libya’s UN-backed Presidential Council announced the formation of a revised national unity government on Sunday. One of the council’s members, Fathi al-Majbari, said in a televised statement that the list of 13 ministers and five ministers of state had been sent to Libya’s House of Representatives (HOR) for approval.

New Atlanticist

Feb 16, 2016

Raising the Price for Putin

By Evelyn Farkas

Russia poses a geostrategic threat to the United States and our interests. Indeed, earlier this month Defense Secretary Ash Carter listed it first among the threats faced by our nation.  It is unfortunate that in the twenty-first century Russia and the United States remain opposed to one another on most foreign policy issues. The reality […]

National Security Russia

EconoGraphics

Feb 16, 2016

Dreaming Big: Size Matters

By Global Business and Economics

Why are Google, Apple or Facebook American-born but not European? Concerns about Europe’s lack of innovative start-ups prompted the European Commission (EC) to launch the Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan, aimed at bolstering entrepreneurship culture.

Economy & Business Europe & Eurasia

MENASource

Feb 16, 2016

EconSource: Saudi Arabia, Russia Agree to Freeze Oil Output

By EconSource

Russia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Venezuela announced a plan on Tuesday to freeze oil output at current levels after a meeting in Doha in an effort to help boost energy prices.

SyriaSource

Feb 16, 2016

Words without End

By Frederic C. Hof

On February 15 the Department of State issued the following statement in response to some particularly brutal air strikes in Syria by Russia and its client regime:

Syria

UkraineAlert

Feb 16, 2016

A Way Out of the Crisis

By Sergii Leshchenko

In the village of Glebovka, on a road leading to the old hunting grounds of ex-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, there is a small enclave of villas. Here, in the deep forest by the shores of the Kyiv water reservoir, sits a guest house that belongs to former Rada Deputy Mykola Martynenko, where confidential meetings between […]

Ukraine

UkraineAlert

Feb 15, 2016

Kissinger’s Vapid Vision Thing

By Alexander J. Motyl

For more evidence of how badly Russian President Vladimir Putin has damaged the international order, take a look at former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s recently articulated “vision for US-Russia relations.” It consists of large swaths of boilerplate language and several disingenuous arguments demonstrating that the architect of détente has no idea how to […]

Russia

UkraineAlert

Feb 15, 2016

Who Should Pay for the Restoration of the Donbas?

By Anders Åslund

It appears a real possibility that the Donbas will be reunified with the rest of Ukraine this year: its occupation simply costs the Kremlin too much. Its Novorossiya project has failed, and the Donbas on its own has no appeal to the Russian people. And Russia cannot get rid of the current suffocating financial sanctions […]

Russia Ukraine
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