NOVANEWS By MICHAEL R. GORDON WASHINGTON — As Western governments scrambled on Sunday to respond to the Russian military advance in Ukraine, Secretary of State John Kerry made plans to visit Kiev on Tuesday […]
NOVANEWS by Montecristo As tensions escalate in Ukraine, the world teeters on the brink of a precipice. One false move could plunge it into the abyss… Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev gave Ukraine a gift in 1954: Crimea, […]
NOVANEWS By Pepe Escobar In Ukraine, the West supported an unconstitutional putsch against an elected government perpetrated, among others, by fascist/neo-nazi storm troopers (Svoboda, Right Sector) instrumentalized by US intelligence. After a Russian counterpunch, US […]
NOVANEWS The comments come days before a referendum to decide whether the contentious Crimean peninsula remains in Ukraine DAVID USBORNE In his sternest words yet, the US Secretary of State has warned Russia that failure […]
NOVANEWS So much for those peaceful hour long phone calls between Obama and Putin. Submitted by Tyler Durden With diplomacy having failed miserably to resolve the Russian annexation of Crimea, and soon East Ukraine (and with […]
NOVANEWS By Helena Bedwell Photographer: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Pro-Russian demonstrators stand by a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Simferopol, Ukraine, on March 11, 2014. Crimea can be integrated into Russia within two months if its voters […]
NOVANEWS Photo: EPA Russia will be offered to deploy up to 15 more warplanes in Belarus, in connection with NATO activity near the Belarusian border, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko stated here on Wednesday. “If they […]
NOVANEWS AFP Photo / Sergei Supinsky There is no doubt there were mercenaries at Maidan, the former head of Ukraine’s security service, Aleksandr Yakimenko, says. The violence on Maidan which caused almost 100 deaths was […]
NOVANEWS BY AARON BLAKE A new poll suggests Americans have very little appetite for any real involvement in the crisis in Ukraine. Only 29 percent of Americans would like for the Obama administration to take a […]
NOVANEWS Dan Roberts and Nora Biette-Timmons in Washington theguardian.com, Wednesday 12 March 2014 Obama calls on Congress to put differences aside to show united front against Russia ahead Crimea referendum vote. Obama meets Ukrainian prime minister Arseniy […]