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Russia’s European HomeMOSCOW – Last spring, after Russia annexed Crimea and began intervening in eastern Ukraine, the United States and the European Union introduced sanctions against Russian individuals and businesses.
Whatever ultimately happens in Iraq’s western and northern regions, much of which are now under the control of the Sunni Islamic State, southern and eastern Iraq will remain Shia.
Europe’s eastern neighborhood is marked by the crisis in Ukraine.
Following Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, and further Russian revanchism in eastern Ukraine, relations with Putin’s Kremlin need to be reconsidered.
These diverging objectives make it hard to believe that the SCO will ever evolve into an eastern version of NATO.
That is why quantitative easing should be run in conjunction with a eurozone-wide investment program designed to modernize the creaking infrastructure of eastern and southern Europe.
Now Germany is trying to devise a form of restricted EU membership which would exclude eastern Europe from the common agricultural market in order to protect a handful of Bavarian farmers.
But if the countries of eastern Europe remain outside the core of European integration built around the Franco-German axis, implications for the European project will be vast.
But if a significant group of large and prosperous west European countries, including Britain, Sweden, Italy and Spain remain outside this new federation, there will be less pressure on eastern Europe to accept the costly conditions and restrictions on national sovereignty which joining the Franco-German federation entail.
For example, when eastern Libyans recently announced the formation of an interim regional council as a first step toward declaring a federalist state, Abdel-Jalil alleged “the beginning of a conspiracy against Libya” in the brewing crisis between the country’s provinces.
The downing in eastern Ukraine of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 echoed the 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in its recklessness, not to mention the failure of governments and citizens to recognize that diplomatic rivalry can quickly give way to violence.
Indeed, even after Russia’s annexation of Crimea and incitement of secessionist movements in eastern Ukraine, airlines did not consider it necessary to reroute flights.
With Russian forces now directly participating in the unrest in eastern Ukraine, the match lit by President Vladimir Putin could spark a conflagration.
The fighting in eastern Ukraine now resembles a gang war, lawless and unconstrained.
China, for example, has effectively endorsed Russia’s annexation of Crimea and intervention in eastern Ukraine.
No other country has a stronger interest in the successful transformation of the EU’s eastern neighbors, particularly Ukraine.
Apparently, fear of even more serious economic troubles – for example, further capital flight when taxes are raised – has precluded an open invasion of eastern Ukraine.
No map can work when some Asian nations are Western (Japan, Taiwan), when non-Western groups (Muslims in Europe) live in supposedly Western countries, when some Eastern countries are partially Westernized and some Western countries (Russia) are not fully Westernized.
Such a debate does take place within all Eastern societies, which leads us to the real clash of civilizations: all societies today are fragmented between Westernizers and non-Westernizers.
Russian officers, he reported, directly command large military operations in eastern Ukraine, including the siege and capture of the important transport center of Debaltseve in February.
It is also why Putin reacted to the ouster of Yanukovych’s government by taking over Crimea and destabilizing eastern Ukraine.
To take another African example, when the people of eastern Nigeria decided to secede and form the state of Biafra in the 1960s, other Nigerians resisted, in part because Biafra included most of Nigeria’s oil.
They argued that the oil belonged to all the people of Nigeria, not just the eastern area.
With the accession of 10 new states in 2004 and another two at the beginning of 2007, the Union’s membership now spans central and eastern Europe.
Recent empirical evidence suggests that the central and eastern European regions benefiting most from EU membership are those around the country’s capital city or sharing a border with one of the 15 countries.
Indeed, Chinese scientists blamed the massive 2008 earthquake that struck the Tibetan plateau’s eastern rim, killing 87,000 people, on the newly constructed Zipingpu Dam, located next to a seismic fault.
Though admired in parts of eastern Libya under rebel control, Abdel-Jalil is a dour figure who lacks the charisma characteristic of revolutionary leaders.
Then came Russia’s fomenting of, and participation in, armed separatists’ effort to take over parts of eastern Ukraine, which led directly to the downing last month of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 and the death of all 298 people on board.
This is why, having regained their democratic regimes, Central and Eastern European countries unequivocally voted to join the continent's integration process.
His crime was failing to register a small environmental group run by him and his younger brother in their remote home village of Gonjo, in eastern Tibet.
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