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Tuesday, 20 January 2015

Putin's desperate military build-up in eastern Ukraine 20 Jan 2015

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The speed with which Putin is accelerating his invasion of Ukraine via the Donbas region has caught many of his supporters in the EU by surp...
Monday, 19 January 2015

Putin's vanishing room for manouvre Jan 19 2015

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Vladimir Frolov , president of LEFF  Group (Moscow), a government relations and PR company , writing in The Moscow Times yesterday (Jan. 18 ...
Sunday, 18 January 2015

Cornered Putin lashing out ...18 Jan 2015

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In yesterday's blog entry I concluded by stating that, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," Medvedev said, ...
Saturday, 17 January 2015

Putin firmly in the militaristic camp

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Tomas Hirst Tomas Hirst reported on 14 Jan 2015 that, "Russia's economy minister Alexei Ulyukayev borrowed a quote from c...
Thursday, 15 January 2015

Putin has lit a dangerous fuse that cannot now be extinguished ....

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I  ended yesterday's blog entry by saying that, "Is  Putin about to push the world over the precipice into full-scale war in E...
Wednesday, 14 January 2015

Putin beginning an all-out assault on Ukraine

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Valery Gerasimov Just as Lavrov yesterday suceeded in torpedoing the proposed meeting of Merkel, Poroshenko, Hollande and Putin in Astan...
Tuesday, 13 January 2015

Was Putin too afraid to attend the Astana meeting?

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And so it has happened as predicted. As I wrote yesterday, " ... his dyed-in-the-wool Soviet foreign minister Lavrov has to throw a...
Monday, 12 January 2015

Is Putin cornered? What, then, will he do?

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Dmitry Zaks on Saturday Jan 10, reported that, Dmitry Zaks "Ukraine fended off renewed financial pressure from Russia on Saturd...