by CBBSS | May 30, 2021 | Regional News
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has appointed former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili as governor of Ukraine’s Odesa region, AFP reports. Saakashvili led Georgia through its five-day war with Russia in 2008 over the breakaway Georgian region South...
by CBBSS | May 30, 2021 | Regional News
Turkey has launched an investigation into Turkish daily Cumhuriyet, claiming the newspaper broke a terrorism law by publishing a photo that shows Turkish intelligence carrying arms that they were reportedly delivering to Syrian rebels. The prosecutors who ordered a...
by CBBSS | May 30, 2021 | International News and Analysis
Ukraine’s recent decision to cut military ties with Russia eliminates the Russian military’s single land route to Transnistria, the breakaway Moldovan region where Moscow has troops stationed. Kiev suspects that Russia has been sneaking troops into the...
by CBBSS | May 30, 2021 | Regional News
The Kremlin continues to deny that two Russians captured amid fighting in Eastern Ukraine are members of the Russian military. The two men say they belong to a Russian special forces unit that crossed into Ukraine on March 26, after being ordered to turn in their...
by CBBSS | May 29, 2021 | International News and Analysis
Fortune Magazine puts out a chart that shows what should really worry Putin. Russian wages are now down 15% since 2014 and inflation is running at 16.9% in March 2015. Read original...
