Vasily Mitrokhin was a senior archivist at the KGB's foreign intelligence headquarters who spirited to the West the greatest trove of KGB documents known to exist. With previous access limited to one Cambridge professor, the opening of the archive to the public is expected to spawn a number of new books and publications. 

 

< Photo: Vasily Mitrokhin, photographed by a British intelligence officer at his first meeting with the Secret Intelligence Service in the Baltics on April 9, 1992.

 

“…Russian analysts are viewing post-Soviet countries through the lens of Ukrainian events, something that may be appropriate in some cases but not all and that may cause Moscow to act in ways that will provoke what the Russian authorities would like to avoid.”

 

< Some of the huge number of Tajik workers in Moscow praying in street because of a lack of mosques in Moscow; photo courtesy Eurasia.net

 

 "The bulk of the abductions are being perpetrated by armed separatists, with the victims often subjected to stomach-turning beatings and torture. But there is also evidence of a smaller number of abuses by pro-Kyiv forces," Amnesty's Deputy Europe and Central Asia Director Denis Krivosheev said.

While new sanctions would be more effective if done in concert with Europe, “the president has always made clear that if necessary we will act on our own.”

Isolated from the U.S. and many European powers continues, Putin is on the hunt for new spheres of influence to bolster Russian support on the international stage.

“That is the judgment of the editors of Moscow’s “Nezavisimaya gazeta” in a lead article published July 9, an article that not only speaks about an aspiration of the church that many Russians may not share but also highlights the reality that the state of religious freedom in Ukraine is much better than that in Russia.”


< Photo: Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, a senior ally of Patriarch Kirill 

The Council’s Board of Directors Chair Stephen J. Hadley testified along with former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

 

Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said Thursday that Russia could invite Ukrainian border guards to patrol the border together at two border posts. Lukashevich added, however, this would only be possible in case of a cease-fire.

Given that “the overall situation remains volatile”, UNHCR reasserts their previous March 2014 position that Ukraine should not be designated as a ‘safe country of origin’ – asylum applicants from Ukraine should therefore not be subjected to an accelerated procedure with reduced safeguards

 

“The new time has come. I hope that in a very short term, everything will change in Slovyansk district. It was a symbol of terror, fear, neglect and tortures, but now it will become a symbol of a new Donbas,” the Head of State said.

 

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