The expanding use of private military and security companies in recent years suggests that they may take a leading role as the Ukraine conflict develops
If diplomatic efforts cannot avert further conflict between Ukraine and Russia, a dramatic shift in international relations could occur
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of 2020
The spike in Washington-Moscow tensions over Syria dominated the two countries’ bilateral discussion on Wednesday.
European leaders, backed by President Barack Obama, have come to an uncomfortable conclusion: they need Russia.
President Vladimir Putin said Russia would rather focus on strengthening its domestic market, but if he wanted, he could invade Kiev in just two days.
A day after an international deal in Geneva to defuse the East-West crisis in Ukraine, pro-Russian separatists vowed not to end their occupation.
Separatists are holding public buildings in Ukraine, saying they need more assurances about security before complying with an international deal.
Russia threatened several states with retaliation if they voted in favour of a resolution declaring Crimea’s secession vote from the Ukraine invalid.
The US president tells his Russian counterpart his political strategy is a generation out of date.
Major industrialised nations have warned Moscow of tougher economic sanctions if it goes beyond the seizure of Crimea.
Rates decisions from Africa’s two largest economies, developments in Ukraine and key US, European and Asian reports are likely to move markets.
Elite Russian troops have stormed a Ukrainian airbase in Crimea as Russia’s defiant march rolled on despite sanctions and growing global isolation.
Vladimir Putin has signed laws completing Russia’s annexation of Crimea as investors took fright at a US decision to sanction his inner circle.
Putin has made it clear that the country will no longer cave to the wishes of the US and its allies.
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The US and its G7 allies will gather next week at the Hague to consider a further response to Russia’s attempt to absorb Ukraine’s Crimea region.
A decree signed by President Vladimir Putin is one of the steps which would formalise the annexation of Crimea, which was part of Russia until 1954.
Russia’s government has acknowledged for the first time that its economy faces major troubles.
A referendum result shows that 96.77% of voters in Ukraine’s Crimea region have voted to join Russia, according to a government commission.
SA will release last month’s inflation figures, while economists keep tabs on Ukraine since Sunday’s vote by Crimeans to join the Russian Federation.
The occupation of Crimea has left most of the former Soviet republics in Cold War mode.
Leaders of the G7 economies have told Russia to stop its work on a referendum in Ukraine’s Crimea region or face action.
Pro-Russia troops have used gunfire in seizing a Ukraine military base, while Nato has declared early-warning flights around the east.
EU leaders have frozen assets belonging to deposed Ukraine leaders, and have warned Russia of sanctions if they do not pull troops out of Crimea.
The US and Russia have stepped up diplomatic efforts to defuse the Ukraine crisis amid heightened tensions in Crimea.
President Vladimir Putin says Russia has reserved the right to use all options in Ukraine, but that Moscow would use force only as a last resort.
Contradicitng his earlier comments, Ukraine’s former president Viktor Yanukovych asked for an intervention in Crimea, says Russia’s UN ambassador.
Ukraine’s acting president has called on Moscow to halt the growing military presence in the Crimea region.
Events in Crimea have the potential to turn Ukraine into Europe’s worst security nightmare since the revolutions of 1989.