More Balkan Trouble Brewing In An Area Famous For Mischief.
The Russian spy ship, Liman, collided with a livestock freighter in foggy conditions off the Turkish Coast in the Black Sea today and sank. All 78 crew members were rescued by Turkish sailors. The Youzarsif H was unharmed with slight damage to the bow. The collision tore a hole in…
The previous governor of the Ukrainian central bank, Valeria Gontareva, resigned recently in the face of death threats, and other obstruction of her reform efforts. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Develeopment, or EBRD, has backed Volodymyr Lavrenchuk, the head of Raiffeisen’s (RBIV.VI) Ukrainian unit, to replace her and continue…
Russia Condemns Israeli Strikes On Hezbollah In Syria.
The Group started by former Russian tycoon Mikhail Khordorkovsky, called Open Russia, has been banned by the Kremlin. The group had called for a protest this coming Saturday against the Russian government. Khordorkovsky spent ten years in a prison colony after Vladimir Putin’s government broke up his oil company, Yukos,…
After a video alleging vast corruption by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was released by Kremlin opposition figure, Alexei Navalny, a poll conducted by the Russian polling group Levada found that 45% of the Russian population thinks that Medvedev should resign. The Prime Minister’s popularity has steadily fallen over the…
Russia will not supply electrical power to the Donbass region of East Ukraine, an area controlled by pro-Russian rebels, which they call Novorossiya, or ‘New Russia.’ Ukraine cut off the electric grid in recent days to the area due to millions in unpaid bills. The Kremlin reacted negatively to the…
During and after World War I, Ottoman Turks carried out one of the most horrific mass exterminations of a religious, and ethnic minority ever conducted, second only to the Jews under Hitler. 1.5 million Armenian Orthodox Christians were murdered by Muslim captors. The able bodied men were simply murdered while…
Electricity Supply Cut Off to Luhansk In Donbass.