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Blog Ark of the diaspora from the late New York Times Eastern Europe and Russia Forum. All welcome. Tuesday, July 28, 2015. Swedish sub wreck an imperial Russian vessel. Footage by a group of salvage hunters purporting to show a wrecked underwater vessel in Swedish waters is likely that of a Russian so-called 'Som class' submarine (nicknamed 'Catfish') which sank in May 1916, an analysis by the Swedish Armed Forces suggested on Tuesday afternoon. In the Stockholm archipelago. July 28, 2015 at 3:20 PM.
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Eastern European Forum: Institute of Peace’s Hawkish Chaiman Wants Ukraine to send Russians Back in Body Bags
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Blog Ark of the diaspora from the late New York Times Eastern Europe and Russia Forum. All welcome. Monday, August 3, 2015. Institute of Peace’s Hawkish Chaiman Wants Ukraine to send Russians Back in Body Bags. The United States Institute of Peace is a publicly funded national institution chartered by the U.S. government to promote international peace through nonviolent conflict resolution. In the media to call for. In Syria. Over the last year, he has called for escalating the conflict in Ukraine. The w...
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Blog Ark of the diaspora from the late New York Times Eastern Europe and Russia Forum. All welcome. Sunday, July 26, 2015. Europe’s Demographic Tides:. The Impact Of Population Shifts. A new map created by Germany’s BBSR shows in greater detail than has been previously available the population shifts impacting Europe. Look at the Eastern section of the map and you’ll see that many cities, including Prague, Bucharest, and the Polish cities of Pozna? July 26, 2015 at 6:18 PM. July 26, 2015 at 11:36 PM.
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Blog Ark of the diaspora from the late New York Times Eastern Europe and Russia Forum. All welcome. Thursday, July 30, 2015. NATO Says It Stands With Turkey In Fight Against ISIS. NPR) During a meeting with all 27 members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on Tuesday, Turkey said it wanted to give the members a heads up that at some point it may need their help fighting against the self-declared Islamic State. Turkey called a rare Article 4 meeting. At the moment, Turkey. July 30, 2015 at 4:15 PM.
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Blog Ark of the diaspora from the late New York Times Eastern Europe and Russia Forum. All welcome. Friday, July 31, 2015. Small thaw in U.S.-Russian relations at the Alaska frontier. ANCHORAGE — The United States and Russia are in the midst of their most tense relations since the Cold War, but for a small number of residents of both countries, things are warming up a bit. It is remarkable that the indigenous people of the north have managed to maintain relations across the Ice Curtain for so many decades.
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Blog Ark of the diaspora from the late New York Times Eastern Europe and Russia Forum. All welcome. Monday, August 3, 2015. Cheaper Oil And Sanctions Weigh On Russia’s Growth Outlook. Ussia’s economy is expected to contract by 3.4 percent in 2015, although growth should return in 2016. Medium-term growth prospects are modest due to slow progress in implementing structural reforms, according to the IMF’s latest economic health check. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Putin flexes his muscles. Time Is No...
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Blog Ark of the diaspora from the late New York Times Eastern Europe and Russia Forum. All welcome. Thursday, August 6, 2015. Russia calls for military tribunal on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. MOSCOW, Aug. 5 (UPI) - An international military tribunal should be formed to examine the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Russian officials suggested at a roundtable discussion at Moscow State University. Would examine international law as it relates to wartime practices. Putin flexes his muscles. Macedo...
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Blog Ark of the diaspora from the late New York Times Eastern Europe and Russia Forum. All welcome. Wednesday, August 5, 2015. Russia, Putin Held in Low Regard around the World. Outside its own borders, neither Russia nor its president, Vladimir Putin, receives much respect or support, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. A median of only 30% see Russia favorably in the nations outside of Russia. August 5, 2015 at 10:03 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Putin flexes his muscles. Henry Kis...
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http://eastern-european-forum.blogspot.com/2015/08/how-imf-and-us-were-party-to-greeces.html
Blog Ark of the diaspora from the late New York Times Eastern Europe and Russia Forum. All welcome. Monday, August 3, 2015. How the IMF and US were party to Greece's tragedy. After helping to maintain the integrity of the European monetary union, the U.S. and the I.M.F. seem to have finally realized the danger of leaving more than half of West's economies in a state of chaotic recession. As a result, the euro area was left to bleed as the German chancellor ordered that "those who violated the budget rule...
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Blog Ark of the diaspora from the late New York Times Eastern Europe and Russia Forum. All welcome. Wednesday, August 5, 2015. Croatia’s ‘Storm’ inspires Ukraine in battle with separatists. Is celebrating 20 years since Operation Storm. Which in just three days reclaimed almost 20 per cent of the country’s territory and sent Krajina separatist forces fleeing for Serbia. And Bosnia; it also put to flight some 200,000 Serb civilians, less than a quarter of whom have returned. An analogy I was sadly able to...
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