Friday, February 28, 2014

UKRAINE - Russia Flexing Its Muscle

"Why Russia is ‘flexing its muscle’ in Crimea" PBS Newshour 2/28/2014

Excerpt

JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour):  Late today, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations proposed sending an urgent independent and credible mediation mission to help resolve Ukraine’s crisis.

However, Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin dismissed the idea, saying he was against imposed mediation.

Our Jeffrey Brown takes a closer look at the tensions escalating between Russia and Ukraine.

JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour):  And to do that, I’m joined by Dimitri Simes, president for the Center for the National Interest, a foreign policy think tank, and Angela Stent, director of the Center of Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies at Georgetown University.  Her latest book is “The Limits of Partnership: U.S.-Russian Relations in the 21st Century.”

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