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  • Russia, Egypt dismiss U.S., U.K. claims bomb brought down jet

    11/05/2015 5:04:44 AM PST · by McGruff · 46 replies
    The Washington Times ^ | November 5, 2015 | Dmitry Lovetsky and Nataliya Vasilyeva
    Russia and Egypt on Thursday dismissed suggestions by Britain and the United States that a bomb was likely to have brought down a Metrojet flight packed with Russian vacationers coming home from an Egyptian resort, saying the claim was premature. A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov, insisted that aviation investigators were working on all possible theories as to why the Airbus A320-200 carrying 224 people crashed Saturday in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, killing everyone on board. He said naming just one possibility was mere speculation.
  • Ukraine’s far-right menace

    09/01/2015 7:59:34 AM PDT · by McGruff · 11 replies
    POLITICO ^ | 9/1/15 | LEV GOLINKIN
    On Monday, an eerily familiar scene in the streets of Kiev heralded a dangerous new phase in the Ukraine crisis. Once again, riot police faced angry demonstrators who claimed that the government was betraying their country; once again, blood spilled on the pavement, resulting in at least one death and over 100 injuries. This time, however, the players’ roles had shifted. The ones fighting the government were grenade-wielding members of Svoboda and Right Sector, radical militants who had, until that point, been allied with Kiev. Their target was the democratically elected, Western-leaning government of Petro Poroshenko which is working on...