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Hello everyone! I hope you are all having a wonderful sunshiny weekend! The past week was full of international commemorative days as you might have noticed, although I did not even mark all of them. Now, check out a bunch of other news of the week… Russia Builds Case for Military Intervention in Ukraine All signs seem to point this way. Question is: what the international coummunity’s response will be? We have witnessed how sanctions don’t touch Russia at all. Will A Massacre in South Sudan Actually Change Anything? Mark Leon Goldberg suggests Washington needs to pay attention to South…
Happy Easter to all those who are celebrating this weekend and all of you who are not, just have a wonderful weekend! 🙂 Should you wish to check out what’s been going on in the world this past week, here’s what I recommend to read: Major Powers Reach Deal To Lower Tensions In Ukraine I’ll admit I am a bit sceptical about this deal and find it hard to believe that any piece of it will be capable of “lowering tensions”. Let’s hope for the best though. Ukraine Calls in the International Criminal Court Now the case is in the…
Happy Sunday, everybody! Another weekend has already passed, that I did not spend how I meant to: with rest. Perhaps next week. A lot of exciting things going on in the world these days that worth paying attention to, though. Here’s what I’ve read about them up until Friday, since I have yet to catch up with the latest myself. What can I say, it happens. 🙂 Kerry Accuses Moscow of ‘Unmistakable’ Covert Ops in Eastern Ukraine And Russia’s pursuit of domination in Ukraine goes forward already. One would think Putin at least could wait a little to divert attention….
Happy first weekend of spring and happy Oscars night everybody! So many things to be excited about! There are a lot of exciting (although worrisome) news in world affairs as well thes days… “Maidan” v. Yanukovych et al.: Ukraine and the ICC? While Ukraine never even signed the Rome Statute, one of the first decisions of the new leadership was to prosecute Yanukovych and a few of his men at the ICC. Whether it will be possible to put him on trial (at the ICC or anywhere) is another question. Obama to Putin: ‘There Will Be Costs’ To Invading Crimea…
How Much Does It Cost to Be Ambassador to Hungary? Watching John McCain set-up a fellow senator like a bowling pin is a rare Washington pleasure. Even when he does it in Budapest. I was planning to take on (soon to be Her Excellency) Ms. Bell ever since I learned she was appointed and created quite a buzz in diplomatic circles immediately. To the above piece I only have a few notes to add. – The story is interesting and mostly true, I just sense a bit of bias here. – Personally I don’t see how appointing a non-career diplomat…
Wrapping up a very eventful week as always, here’s a few great posts for you to catch up with global news. Who is Invited to the Syria Peace Talks (And Who’s Not) A map of the invitees by BBC World with Mark Leon Goldberg’s smart comments on UNDispatch. Should He Stay or Should He Go? Assad’s Future Clouds Syria Talks Indeed this is the one question on which the parties’ views can’t seem to get even an inch closer. Burning Buses in Kyiv Last weekend the sparkles of protests fired up yet again even stronger than before in the Ukranian…
Happy Sunday everybody! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! As you might noticed, I was a little stuck with the blog last week. To be honest, I do want to make some changes for some time now. The problem is, I do know what I want to see here, how I want it to be, I am just not quite sure how to get there. Please bare with me while I figure it out, I promise to keep this thing up with good content all the while. One thing never changes though, and that’s my enthusiasm towards world…
This week was so eventful world affairs news-wise that it was almost hard to pick but a few of my favorite blog posts. I tried my best though. On world affairs: AÂ Rare Bit of Good News from Syria Shows What’s Possible When the International Community is United January 22 will be the next occasion for the Syrian government to prove how cooperative it is. CAR President: I’m Not Resigning! UPDATE: He Resigned! Whether this will bring any positive changes for the CAR is unclear. Hopefully it will. Iraq: on the brink of implosion? Ever worrysome news coming from Iraq, while…
Syria Militants Said to Recruit Visiting Americans to Attack U.S. American intelligence and counterterrorism officials said Islamic extremist groups were trying to identify, recruit and train Westerners to carry out attacks when they returned home.
