After blindly doing the US' bidding over all propaganda matters Ukraine-related, and following just as blindly into round after round of US-inspired sanctions, sanctions to whose retaliation Europe would be on the frontline unlike the largely insulated US, Europe appears to be absolutely shocked and is apoplectic that after several rounds of sanction escalations, Russia finally unleashed its own round of sanctions and yesterday announced a 1 year ban on all European food imports, something which will further push Europe into a triple-dip recession as already hinted by Italy yesterday.

In fact, Europe is so stunned by this unexpected "politically-motivated" retaliation by Russia, it issued a press release.

Statement by Commission spokesman on the announcement of measures by the Russian Federation

The European Union regrets the announcement by the Russian Federation of measures which will target imports of food and agricultural products. This announcement is clearly politically motivated. The Commission will assess the measures in question as soon as we have more information as to their full content and extent. We underline that the European Union's restrictive measures are directly linked with the illegal annexation of Crimea and destabilisation of Ukraine. The European Union remains committed to de-escalating the situation in Ukraine. All should join in this effort. Following full assessment by the Commission of the Russian Federation's measures, we reserve the right to take action as appropriate.

Surely, Putin is waiting for the European Commission to also issue a #hashtag before he starts shaking in his boots.

For an indication of just how clueless Europe is, we also read that it is ready to appeal to the World Trade Organization to have the Russian agriculture import bans lifted, a European diplomatic source told ITAR-TASS.

“Politically motivated large-scale trade restrictions are a direct violation of WTO rules, which Russia pledged to comply with,” the diplomat said. “These measures will be thoroughly analyzed, and then relevant claims will be submitted with the WTO.”

The source added that the European Commission would start analyzing Russia’s ban on imports from EU states as soon as the official list of banned goods would be published.

The EU Council may convene an urgent meeting in connection with Russia's response to European sanctions.

It is early to say whether the EU will take measures in response to the Russian ban on imports of food products from Europe, source told.

“First, it is necessary to see and analyze the official list of product that Moscow intends to ban. After that, decisions will be made both at the European and the national level,” the source stressed.

The punchline: "The Russian ban on agricultural imports from the European Union is an “irresponsible measure” that can lead to losses of billions of euro for European as well as Russian consumers, the source told ITAR-TASS."

In other words, Europe actually thought it would keep escalating without Russia retaliation. If confused, see the first sentence of this article again.

In the meantime, Europe counter-retaliating to Russia's retaliation to European sanction aggression is sure to make the already bad trade war, worse. A trade war so bad in fact, that what snow was to Q1, "evil Putin" will be to Q3. From Bloomberg:

The crisis in eastern Europe is showing signs of disrupting Mario Draghi’s economic outlook.

Evidence is building that the conflict in Ukraine and European Union sanctions against Vladimir Putin’s Russia are undermining a euro-area recovery that the European Central Bank president already describes as weak. With the ECB expected to keep interest rates on hold near zero today and refrain from any new policy measures, Draghi is likely to face questions on how he plans to keep the economy on track.

The ECB may have few tools left to mitigate the impact of political turmoil that European companies from Anheuser-Busch InBev NV (ABI) to Siemens AG (SIE) say is hurting their business. A volley of measures introduced in June will take time to work, and policy makers have so far shied away from wheeling out a full-scale asset-purchase program.

“The euro-zone recovery is very fragile and the macro situation fluid,” said Andrew Bosomworth, managing director at Pacific Investment Management Co. in Munich. “Expect Draghi to elaborate on spillover risks from the Russia-Ukraine crisis.”

Ironic, because this is just as we said would happen when we predicted that Putin will soon become Draghi's best friend and as a result of Putin "aggression" Draghi will have "no choice" but to boost Europe's monetary insanity, which recently crossed into the NIRP twilight zone, even beyond the rabbit hole.

Finally, Bloomberg actually did touch correctly on what the recent trade war escalation is all about in "Russia Sanctions Accelerate Risk to Dollar Dominance."

U.S. and European Union sanctions against Russia threaten to hasten a move away from the dollar that’s been stirring since the global financial crisis.

One place the shift has become evident is Hong Kong, where dollar selling has led the central bank to buy more than $9.5 billion since July 1 to prevent its currency from rallying as the sanctions stoked speculation of an influx of Russian cash. OAO MegaFon, Russia’s second-largest wireless operator, shifted some cash holdings into the city’s dollar. Trading of the Chinese yuan versus the Russian ruble rose to the highest on July 31 since the end of 2010, according to the Moscow Exchange.

While no one’s suggesting the dollar will lose its status as the main currency of business any time soon, its dominance is ebbing. The greenback’s share of global reserves has already shrunk to under 61 percent from more than 72 percent in 2001. The drumbeat has only gotten louder since the financial crisis in 2008, an event that began in the U.S. when subprime-mortgage loans soured, and the largest emerging-market nations including Russia have vowed to conduct more business in their currencies.

"No one is suggesting"? We are!

8/7/14....

ROME, August 07, /ITAR-TASS/. Russia’s restrictions on imports of food and farming products from the European Union will seriously impact Italy’s agrarian sector, Italian Minister of Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Maurizio Martina said on Thursday.

“It is absolutely obvious that this decision will have a serious impact on Italian exports. We are closely watching the development of the situation and will address this issue both at the national and at the European levels. But we are confident that there is only political way out of this crisis,” he said.

The ministry’s press service told ITAR-TASS that Italy was waiting from Russia a detailed list of products subject to the import ban. Apart from that, a number of Italian companies, for instance, Barilla, have established production lines in Russia.

According to official statistics, Italy’s food exports to Russian in 2013 reached 700 million euro, or slightly more than two percent of its overall exports. Wines accounted for a larger part of Italian exports to Russia, bringing it 115 million euro. Italy’s yields from exports of pasta stood at 50 million euro and from exports of dairy products - at 45 million euro.

Italy’s agrarian sector accounts for 17% of its GDP. Agriculture is the only sector of the Italian economy which demonstrated a minor growth of 4% on the background of a general economic slowdown (a decline of 0.2% of the GDP in the second quarter of 2014).

Vineyard of the Saker....

THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2014

You wanna be Uncle Sam's bitch? Pay the price!

Dear friends,

I just took a short break from my life in "meatspace" to comment upon the great news of the day: Russia is introducing a full 12 months embargo on the import of beef, pork, fruits and vegetables, poultry, fish, cheese, milk and dairy products from the European Union, the United States, Australia, Canada and the Kingdom of Norway. Russia is also introducing an airspace ban against European and US airlines that fly over our airspace to Eastern Asia, namely, the Asia-Pacific Region and is considering changing the so-called Russian airspace entry and exit points for European scheduled and charter flights. Furthermore, Russia is ready to revise the rules of using the trans-Siberian routes, and will also discontinue talks with the US air authorities on the use of the trans-Siberian routes. Finally, starting this winter, we may revoke the additional rights issued by the Russian air authorities beyond the previous agreements. This is such an interesting and major development that it requires a much more subtle analysis than just the crude calculation of how much this might cost the EU or US. I will attempt no such calculation, but instead I would point out the following elements:

First, this is a typically Russian response. There is a basic rule which every Russian kid learns in school, in street fights, in the military or elsewhere: never promise and never threaten - just act. Unlike western politicians who spent months threatening sanctions, the all the Russians did was to say, rather vaguely, that they reserve the right to reply. And then, BANG!, this wide and far-reaching embargo which, unlike the western sanctions, will have a major impact on the West, but even much more so on Russia (more about that in an instant). This "no words & only action" tactic is designed to maximize deterrence of hostile acts: since the Russians do not clearly spell out what they could do in retaliation, God only knows what they could do next! :-) On top of that, to maximize insecurity, the Russians only said that these were the measures agreed upon, but not when they would be introduced, partially or fully, and against whom. They also strongly implied that other measure were under consideration in the pipeline.

Second, the sanctions are wonderfully targeted. The Europeans have acted like spineless and brainless prostitutes in this entire business, they were opposed to sanctions from day 1, but they did not have the courage to tell that to Uncle Sam, so each time they ended up caving in. Russia's message to the EU is simple: you wanna be Uncle Sam's bitch? Pay the price! This embargo will especially hurt southern Europe (Spain, France, Italy, Greece) whose agricultural production will greatly suffer from it These countries also happen to be the weakest in the EU. By hitting them, Russia is maximizing the inevitable friction inside the EU over sanctions against Russia.

Third, not only will EU carriers suffer from much higher costs and flight times on the very important Europe to Asia route, but the Asian carriers will not, giving the latter a double competitive advantage. How is that for a way to reward one side while hurting the other? The EU got one Russian airline in trouble over its flights to Crimea (Dobrolet) and for that the entire EU airlines community could end being at a huge disadvantage vis-à-vis its Asian counterparts.

Fourth, Russia used these sanctions to do something vital for the Russian economy. Let me explain: after the collapse of the USSR the Russian agriculture was in disarray, and the Eltsin only made things worse. Russian farmers simply could not compete against advanced western agro-industrial concerns which benefited from huge economies of scale, from expensive and high-tech chemical and biological research, which had a full chain of production (often through large holdings), and a top quality marketing capability. The Russian agricultural sector badly, desperately, needed barriers and tariffs to be protected form the western capitalist giants and, instead, Russia voluntarily abided by the terms of the WTO and then eventually became member. Now Russia is using this total embargo to provide a crucially needed time for the Russian agriculture to invest and take up a much bigger share on the Russian market. Also, keep in mind that Russian products are GMO-free, and that they have much less preservatives, antibiotics, colors, taste enhancers, or pesticides. And since they are local, they don't need to be brought in by using the kind of refrigeration/preservation techniques which typically make products taste like cardboard. In other words, Russian agricultural products taste much better, but that is not enough to complete. This embargo now gives them a powerful boost to invest, develop and conquer market shares.

Fifth, there are 100 countries which did not vote with the US on Crimea. The Russians have already announced that these are the countries with which Russia will trade to get whatever products it cannot produce indigenously. A nice reward for standing up to Uncle Sam.

Sixth, small but sweet: did you notice that EU sanctions were introduced for 3 months only, "to be reviewed" later? By introducing a 12 months embargo Russia also sends a clear message: who do you think will benefit from this mess?

Seventh, it is plain wrong to calculate that EU country X was exporting for Y million dollars to Russia and to then conclude that the Russian embargo will cost Y million dollars to EU country X. Why is it wrong? Because the non-sale of these product with create a surplus which will then adversely affect the demand or, if the production is decreased, this will affect production costs (economies of scale). Conversely, for a hypothetical non-EU country Z a contract with Russia might mean enough cash to invest, modernize and become more competitive, not only in Russia, but on the world market, including the EU.

Eighth, the Baltic countries have played a particularly nasty role in the entire Ukrainian business and now some of their most profitable industries (such as fisheries), which were 90% dependent on Russia, will have to shut down. These countries are already a mess, but now they will hurt even more. Again, the message to them is simple: you wanna be Uncle Sam's bitch? Pay the price!

Ninth, and this is really important, what is happening is a gradual decoupling of Russia from the western economies. The West severed some of the financial, military and aerospace ties, Russia severed the monetary, agricultural and industrial ones. Keep in mind that the US/EU market is a sinking one, affected by deep systemic problems and huge social issues. In a way, the perfect comparison is the Titanic whose orchestra continued to play music while the sink was sinking. Well, Russia is like a passenger who is told that the Titanic's authorities have decided to disembark him at the next port. Well, gee, too bad, right?

'clock' by Josetxo Ezcurra

Last, but most definitely not least, this trade-war, combined with the West's hysterical russophobia, is doing for Putin a better PR campaign than anything the Kremlin could have dreamed of. All his PR people need to tell the Russian population is the truth: "we did everything right, we played it exactly by the book, we did everything we could to deescalate this crisis and all we asked for was to please not allow the genocide of our people in Novorussia - and what was the West's response to that? An insane hate campaign, sanctions against us and unconditional support for thegenocidal Nazis in Kiev". Furthermore, as somebody who carefully follows the Russian media, I can tell you that what is taking place today feels a lot like, paraphrasing Clausewitz, the "a continuation of WWII, but by other means", in other words a struggle to the end between two regimes, two civilizations, which cannot coexist on the same planet and who are locked in struggle to death. In these circumstances, expect the Russian people to support Putin even more.

In other words, in a typical Judo move, Putin has used the momentum of the the West's Russia-basing and Putin-bashing campaign to his advantage across the board: Russia will benefit from this economically and politically. Far from being threatened by some kind of "nationalistic Maidan" this winter, Putin's regime is being strengthened by his handling of the crisis (his ratings are higher than ever before).

Yes, of course, the USA have shown they they have a very wide array of capabilities to hurt Russia, especially through a court system (in the US and EU) which is as subservient to the US deep state as the courts in the DPRK are to their own "Dear Leader" in Pyongyang. And the total loss of the Ukrainian market (for both imports and exports) will also hurt Russia. Temporarily. But in the long wrong, this situation is immensely profitable for Russia.

In the meantime, the Maindan is burning again, Andriy Parubiy has resigned, a the Ukies are shelling hospital and churches in Novorussia. What else is knew?

As for Europe, it is shell-shocked and furious. Frankly, my own Schadenfreude knows no bounds this morning. Let these arrogant non-entities like Van Rompuy, Catherine Ashton, Angela Merkel or José Manuel Barroso deal with the shitstorm their stupidity and spinelessness have created.

In the USA, Jen Psaki seems to be under the impression that the Astrakhan region is on the Ukrainian border, while the Russian Defense Ministry plans to "open special accounts in social networks and video hosting resources so that the US State Department and the Pentagon will be able to receive unbiased information about Russian army’s actions".

Will all that be enough to suggest to the EU leaders that they have put their money on the wrong horse?

The Saker

8/6/14...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/11014604/Vladimir-Putin-signs-historic-20bn-oil-deal-with-Iran-to-bypass-Western-sanctions.html

By Andrew Trotman

4:40PM BST 06 Aug 2014

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Vladimir Putin has agreed a $20bn (£11.8bn) trade deal with Iran that will see Russia sidestep Western sanctions on its energy sector.

Under the terms of a five-year accord, Russia will help Iran organise oil sales as well as “cooperate in the oil-gas industry, construction of power plants, grids, supply of machinery, consumer goods and agriculture products”, according to a statement by the Energy Ministry in Moscow.

The Russian government issued a new statement on Wednesday after mysteriously withdrawing a similar release on Tuesday.

Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Wednesday that his government will help Iran bring its oil to market. In return, Iran wants to imort power and pump equipment, steel products such as pipes, machinery for its leather and textile industries, wood, wheat, pulses, oilseeds and meat.

Iran "is also interested in the joint construction of power generation and development of coal deposits", Mr Novak added.

Further talks between the two countries will take place next month, he said.

A deal could see Russia buying 500,000 barrels of Iranian oil a day, the Moscow-based Kommersant newspaper has previously reported. That would be about a fifth of Iran’s output in June and half its exports.

There’s a question over “how substantive this memorandum is”, Richard Mallinson, an analyst at Energy Aspects in London, told Bloomberg. “There would be various practical limitations in terms of Iran’s current production capacity, geography and shipping logistics, as well as US sanctions.”

The move is a win-win for both nations after they were hit with Western sanctions aimed at limiting their energy sectors.

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NATO Resumes Warnings Over Russian ‘Invasion’ as Tensions Soar

Hagel Cites Russian Wargames as 'Increased Threat'

by Jason Ditz, August 06, 2014

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Tensions between NATO and Russia are once again on the rise, with Russia responding to Western sanctions with a round of bans on US and European fruits and vegetables.

As it has so often in the past, this has fueled a new round of NATO statements expressing fear about a Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine, where ethnic Russian rebels are being fought by the pro-West Ukrainian military.

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel cited the “military buildup” along the border region, which is actually a Russian military exercise already announced, as proof of a “increased threat” of an invasion of Ukrainian territory.

Other NATO officials particularly in eastern Europe, have presented the putative threat as an existential one for them as well, advancing the notion that if Russia did fight Ukraine, they might conceivably sweep across Europe like a plague of locusts, starting World War 3.

There’s no evidence of any of this, of course, and it rather is the response to Russia pushing for the UN to make some provisions for the growing humanitarian crisis in eastern Ukraine. The war there is fueling a massive number of refugees into Russian territory, with estimates that up to one million civilians have been displaced. The US has repeatedly downplayed the crisis, and at times the State Department has suggested the mostly ethnic Russian refugees could conceivably just be “visiting relatives” in neighboring Russia, and not fleeing the invasion of the Ukrainian military.

18 Ukrainian Soldiers Killed in Fights With Eastern Rebels

54 Wounded in Multiple Fights With Rebels Across East

by Jason Ditz, August 06, 2014

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The Ukrainian military has continued its fight against eastern rebels in the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts today, reporting multiple battles which left 18 soldiers dead and 54 wounded.

The Ukrainian military spokesman reported the casualties spanned several battles in both oblasts, including a four-hour battle along the Luhansk-Russia border, during which they claimed to have been fired on from rebels on both sides of the border.

That’s not the first time such allegations have come about, and the mostly ethnic Russian rebels have at times moved in and out of neighboring Russia at will. The Ukrainian military insists it is close to defeating the rebels.

The ongoing war in eastern Ukraine has left around 1,100 people dead, according to UN estimates. The estimates of Ukrainian soldiers slain is around 400, with the remainder including both rebels and a large number of civilians slain in Ukrainian attacks on rebel-held cities. Roughly one million civilians have fled the fighting, most of them to Russia.

http://en.itar-tass.com/world/743742

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk

AP Photo/Yves Logghe

WARSAW, August 06. /ITAR-TASS/. Europe and Russia do not want fuel market sanctions amid the Ukraine crisis, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday.

“Quite the contrary, Russia and many Western European countries would like to exclude gas market from the discussion of sanctions,” he said.

Possible Russian oil and gas sanctions on the EU would first hit Russia, Tusk added.

Speaking of Russian ban on Polish fruit and vegetable imports, Prime Minister said losses in this season were “serious but no tragedy”, and most contracts had been already realized and paid for.

“We should think what to do in the future if the embargo lingers on,” Tusk said.

On August 1, Russian veterinary and phytosanitary watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor banned almost all fruit and vegetable import from Poland, including apples, pears, cherry, sweet cherry, peaches, plums and cabbage as Poland violated certification requirements and quarantine pests have been detected.

Poland turned to European Commissioners for agriculture, healthcare and trade for help to overcome the ban’s consequences preliminarily estimated at about 500 million euros.

http://en.itar-tass.com/world/743759

NATO Spokesperson Oana Lungescu

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BRUSSELS, August 06. /ITAR-TASS/. NATO is concerned that Russia may send troops to east Ukraine under the pretext of a peacekeeping or humanitarian mission, NATO Spokesperson Oana Lungescu said in a statement made public in the Belgian capital on Wednesday.

Russia “has amassed around 20,000 combat-ready troops on Ukraine's Eastern border,” Lungescu said, adding that this “undermines efforts aimed at finding a diplomatic solution to the crisis.”

“We're not going to guess what's on Russia's mind, but we can see what Russia is doing on the ground - and that is of great concern,” the NATO spokesperson said. The North Atlantic Alliance is concerned that Moscow “could use the pretext of a humanitarian or peacekeeping mission as an excuse to send troops into Eastern Ukraine.”

Meanwhile, Russian Permanent Representative at the UN Vitaly Churkin said at an extraordinary meeting of the UN Security Council on Tuesday that Moscow offered to send Russian humanitarian convoys under the aegis of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to the cities of Donetsk, Luhansk and other Ukrainian cities with a high number of forced migrants. Russia is prepared for “to make convoys as transparent as possible.” “Let the ICRC monitor the loading of convoys, escort them along the whole route and supervise distribution of aid among those in need,” the diplomat said.

US considers all Russian military drills provocative in regard to Ukraine

Air defence troops to hold S-300 fire drills in southern Russia

Number of Russian Airborne Forces to be doubled — General Staff

http://en.itar-tass.com/world/743747

AP Photo/Michel Euler

MOSCOW, August 06. /ITAR-TASS/. European and US companies’ total capitalization lost about $4.5 billion by the middle of Wednesday as Russia reacted to EU sanctions on Russian low-cost air carrier operating flights to Crimea Dobrolyot.

Finnair dropped 2.2% to 2.6 euro per stock; the cap declined 30 million euros over two days. Air-France lost 4.7% with 7.15 euros per stock (the cap plummeted 11% - more than 220 million euros).

German Lufthansa dropped 2.9% to 12.45 euros per stock, 10% down in two days (about 570 million euros). Irish low-cost Ryanair slid 2% to 6.61 euros per stock losing about 184 million euros of cap.

Two trading sessions stripped International Airlines Group of 6.5%, or more than $745 million. On Wednesday, the corporation’s stocks on London Stock Exchange are down 1.9%

On Wednesday night, the US airlines fared poorly on US stock exchanges. Delta closed 2.82% down at $36.23 per stock, its cap down by $1.1 billion. American Airlines fell 2.5% to $37.18 per stock (the cap down 675 million). United Airlines collapsed 3.43% to $43.94 per stock down $562 million.

German aviation worried about possible ban on transit flights in Russia

Russia’s Dobrolyot has valid air operator certificate despite suspension of flights

Russian airlines ask government to respond to Dobrolet low-cost carrier crisis

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2014/08/russia-ponders-russian-airspace-no-fly.html

Tuesday, August 05, 2014 1:01 PM

Russia Ponders Russian Airspace No-Fly Zone for EU Commercial and Passenger Jets

The sanctions retaliation game took another big leap forward today with the EU in the spotlight:
Moscow May Force European Airlines to Fly Around Russia.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev threatened on Tuesday to retaliate for the grounding of a subsidiary of national airline Aeroflot because of EU sanctions, with one newspaper reporting that European flights to Asia over Siberia could be banned.

Low-cost carrier Dobrolyot, operated by Aeroflot, suspended all flights last week after its airline leasing agreement was cancelled under European Union sanctions because it flies to Crimea, a region Russia annexed from Ukraine in March.

The business daily Vedomosti reported that Russia may restrict or ban European airlines from flying over Siberia on Asian routes, a move that would impose costs on European carriers by making flights take longer and require more fuel.

Vedomosti quoted unnamed sources as saying the foreign and transport ministries were discussing the action, which would put European carriers at a disadvantage to Asian rivals but would also cost Russia money it collects in overflight fees.

At the height of the Cold War, most Western airlines were barred from flying through Russian airspace to Asian cities, and instead had to operate via the Gulf or the U.S. airport of Anchorage, Alaska on the polar route.

However, European carriers now fly over Siberia on their rapidly growing routes to countries such as China, Japan and South Korea, paying the fees which have been subject to a long dispute between Brussels and Moscow.

The daily quoted one source as saying a ban could cost carriers including Lufthansa, British Airways and Air France 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) over three months.

However, state-controlled Aeroflot would also be hurt if it lost the fees. Aeroflot was the worst performing stock in Moscow on Tuesday, closing down 5.9 pct compared with a 1.4 percent drop on the broad index.

Lufthansa said it operates about 180 flights a week through Siberian airspace but declined further comment, as did British Airways.

Estimated Losses

Greek tourism expects the move to cost $400 million.
Travel from Ukraine down 50%
Lufthansa, British Airways and Air France expect 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) over three months
Russian controlled Aeroflot would lose $300 million in flight fees it collects for flights over Russia

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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

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Europe Furious That Putin Dares To Retaliate To Sanctions, Blames Economic Slide On Kremlin

Russia’s restrictions to adversely impact Italy’s agrarian sector - Italian minister

THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2014

You wanna be Uncle Sam's bitch? Pay the price!

NATO Resumes Warnings Over Russian ‘Invasion’ as Tensions Soar

Hagel Cites Russian Wargames as 'Increased Threat'

18 Ukrainian Soldiers Killed in Fights With Eastern Rebels

54 Wounded in Multiple Fights With Rebels Across East

Europe, Russia want gas market out of sanction discussion — PM

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NATO concerned Russia may send troops posed as peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine

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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Russia statements and moves regarding the Ukraine situation ( August 6 -7, 2014 ) - Examining where things stand with natural gas , Russian sanctions and Peace Keeping Forces in the restive East Ukraine Region !

Europe Furious That Putin Dares To Retaliate To Sanctions, Blames Economic Slide On Kremlin

Russia’s restrictions to adversely impact Italy’s agrarian sector - Italian minister

French minister in consultations with Germany, Poland over Russia’s sanctions

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4 Ukrainian airlines to be affected by Russian transit ban

THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2014

You wanna be Uncle Sam's bitch? Pay the price!

NATO Resumes Warnings Over Russian ‘Invasion’ as Tensions Soar

Hagel Cites Russian Wargames as 'Increased Threat'

18 Ukrainian Soldiers Killed in Fights With Eastern Rebels

54 Wounded in Multiple Fights With Rebels Across East

Europe, Russia want gas market out of sanction discussion — PM

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk

NATO concerned Russia may send troops posed as peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine

NATO Spokesperson Oana Lungescu

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Russia response to Dobrolyot sanctions drops US, EU air carriers capitalization

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