Bill Clinton: Putin’s media control enables him to hang on to power
President Bill Clinton thinks that Vladimir Putin won’t be able to deny the hit that U.S. and European sanctions will have on Russia, but his control of the media will enable him to hang on. In an interview with PBS…
Conflicting reports of a Ukraine cease-fire emerge a day before NATO summit
President Obama reacted to early news of the possible cease-fire saying "it's too early to tell" if the aggressions would actually stop. Obama spoke from Estonia, where he is traveling ahead of the Nato summit.
Obama condemns Russia for Ukraine violence; rules out U.S. military involvement
Ukrainian officials say two Russian military columns have rolled into the southeastern part of Ukraine after missiles were fired at a border post.
Obama phones Putin to talk Ukraine, missiles and sanctions
In an Obama-initiated phone call Friday, the U.S. president also raised concerns that Russia violated a key Cold War era nuclear weapons treaty, the White House said. In a letter this week from Obama to Putin and in an administration…
Weeks before the May 25 elections in Ukraine, residents of Donetsk and Luhansk regions voted for self-rule, independent of the Ukrainian government. Pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk reported Monday that 90 percent of voters in Sunday’s referendum voted in favor of…
The June 6 commemoration would mark the first time Putin and Western leaders have come face-to-face since the outbreak of the crisis in Ukraine. The U.S. and Europe have condemned Russia's provocations, ordering sanctions on Putin's inner circle and cutting…
The Associated Press and other news outlets reported heavy gunfire and explosions around the eastern city of Slovyansk, where Kiev's army mounted its first major offensive Friday against armed pro-Russian insurgents.
The new penalties were a response to what the West says is Russia's failure to live up to commitments it agreed to under an international accord aimed at ending the dispute. The White House says Russia's involvement in the recent…
