Arkiv-Global View

The analysis below was prepared by the Institute of World Policy (Kyiv, Ukraine), www.iwp.org.ua.

RUSSIA IN UKRAINE: 10 FACTS

1. The intervention is based on lies. Russia has invaded Ukraine under a false pretext that there were victims among Russian population in the Crimea. There is no single proof that any Russian was killed in the Crimea or in South-Eastern Ukraine.

In response to the crisis in Ukraine, some American lawmakers and energy companies are urging the United States to export natural gas to Europe in an effort to undercut Russia’s influence over the Continent. The Obama administration should move to increase exports, which would help allies like Germany, Turkey and Britain, but the effects of such exports would likely be modest and wouldn’t be realized for several years.

Silvio Berlusconi starebbe valutando la vendita del Milan. La notizia è riportata dall'agenzia economica Bloomberg che cita tre fonti. Secondo queste Lazard, la banca d'affari francese con sede negli Stati Uniti, ha inviato materiale informativo a potenziali acquirenti. Il Milan, di proprietà dell'ex presidente del Consiglio, Silvio Berlusconi, è valutato da Forbes 945 milioni di dollari (688 milioni di euro). Un portavoce di Fininvest, la holding che controlla la squadra di calcio ha però smentito l'ipotesi.

In 1987, an American pharmaceutical executive called Mary Ann Leeper flew to Copenhagen to get a first-hand look at what she thought might be the world's next great health innovation. She didn't expect to find it tucked away inside an old cigar box.

In the wake of disclosures by Edward Snowden about the NSA practices concerning PRISM and other US surveillance programmes like Xkeyscore, Upstream, Quantuminsert, Bullrun, Dishfire, and the close involvement in these activities of services like the GCHQ (Tempora program), there is an urgent need for a systematic assessment of the scale, reach and character of contemporary surveillance practices, as well as of the justifications they attract and the controversies they provoke.

The decision of the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, to send forces into Crimea provoked a hysterical reaction, but his motives are less ambitious than is commonly assumed.

I remember when I first discovered internet porn – I was 17 years old. Fascinated by this world of unleashed sexual expression and fantasy, I couldn’t get enough of it.

As I grew up and began exploring my own sexuality, I discovered just how different watching pixels on a screen was compared to the intimacy of making love with another human being.

I thought I’d outgrow my porn habit over time. But I never did.

Regarding the Russian aggression against Ukraine, much depends on what Vladi­mir Putin does next. But what Putin does depends on not only his calculation of the likely NATO (and especially the U.S.) response but also his estimate of how fiercely the Ukrainian people would respond to any further escalation by Russia.

John Wells and I have been together a very long time.

If you haven’t heard of Wells, he’s a C.I.A. operative who plays the starring role in a series of espionage thrillers that I started writing a decade ago. Random House published the first, “The Faithful Spy,” in 2006. I planned to kill Wells off at its end, a la John le Carre’s Alec Leamas. But my editor told me I couldn’t end with a fade to black, that I’d have to have a funeral. I found I couldn’t write the scene.

Gli sarebbe piaciuto concentrare pensieri e parole solo sul confronto con i campioni del mondo, esame non da poco a un centinaio di giorni dal Mondiale brasiliano. Invece l'avvicinamento all'amichevole con la Spagna è stato caratterizzto da qualche polemica di troppo che ha infastidito Cesare Prandelli. Ecco perché, nella conferenza stampa di Madrid alla vigilia della gara con le furie rosse, il commissario tecnico si ritrova a tornare sul botta e risposta con Antonio Conte per la convocazione di Giorgio Chiellini.