Tag: Ukraine

State Department spokeswoman hopes Russia lives by ‘the promise of hashtag’

Beltway Confidential

State Department spokeswoman hopes Russia lives by ‘the promise of hashtag’

Charles Hoskinson · April 25, 2014 4:00 am

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden speaks as he delivers a joint statement to the press with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 22, 2014. Biden called on Moscow to encourage pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine to vacate government buildings and checkpoints, accept amnesty and "address their grievances politically." (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Joe Biden emerges as Obama’s trusty sidekick

Susan Crabtree · April 25, 2014 4:00 am

Obama would ‘absolutely’ save Vladimir Putin from drowning

Obama would ‘absolutely’ save Vladimir Putin from drowning

Meghashyam Mali · April 25, 2014 4:00 am

Russian President Vladmir Putin has worked assiduously in recent months to craft an Image congenial to the American public, while portraying President Obama as out of step with American opinion and international norms.ÃÂ (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)

Obama administration: No sign Russia has cut off talks

Meghashyam Mali · April 25, 2014 4:00 am

Members of Ukrainian special forces man a check point near Donetsk, Ukraine, Thursday, April 24, 2014. Ukrainian forces launched an operation Thursday to drive pro-Russia insurgents out of occupied buildings in the country's tumultuous east, prompting new threats from Russian President Vladimir Putin. Within hours of the Ukrainian operation, which killed at least two pro-Russia militants, Russia's defense minister announced new military exercises for troops massed near Ukraine's border. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

National Security

Ukraine moves against insurgents in the east

Yuras Karmanau · April 24, 2014 11:29 pm

Hagel says Russian military exercises up tensions

National Security

Hagel says Russian military exercises up tensions

Robert Burns · April 24, 2014 9:57 pm

Canada’s FM denounces Russia’s actions in Ukraine

Washington Examiner · April 24, 2014 6:59 pm

In this photo taken on Sunday, April 13, 2014, a U.S. reporter Simon Ostrovsky, right, stands with a Pro-Russian gunman at seized police station in the eastern Ukraine town of Slovyansk. Pro-Russian gunmen in eastern Ukraine admitted on Wednesday April 23, 2014, that they are holding captive American journalist for Vice News Simon Ostrovsky who has not been seen since early Tuesday. Ostrovsky has been covering the crisis in Ukraine for some weeks and was reporting about groups of masked gunmen seizing government buildings in eastern Ukrainian. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

US journalist released in east Ukraine

Washington Examiner · April 24, 2014 5:13 pm

Acting Foreign Minister of Ukraine Andriy Deshchytisa speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, during a meeting on the 5th Anniversary of the Eastern Partnership at the Prague Castle in Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday, April 24, 2014. Deshchytisa described Russian military exercise close to the Ukrainian border as a provocation. The Eastern Partnership is a European initiative launched in 2009 aimed at strengthening relations between the EU and its eastern neighbours, in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine.(AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Ukraine FM: We are ready to fight Russia

Karel Janicek · April 24, 2014 5:05 pm

Stroke and Distance?

Geoffrey Norman · April 24, 2014 4:59 pm

Oil near $102 on Ukraine crisis, Libya export woes

Oil near $102 on Ukraine crisis, Libya export woes

Pablo Gorondi · April 24, 2014 11:44 am

France warns against war in Ukraine

France warns against war in Ukraine

Washington Examiner · April 24, 2014 9:34 am