Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- March 11, 2014



Ukraine Impasse Stirs U.S.-Russia Tensions -- Elise Labott, CNN Foreign Affairs Reporter

Washington (CNN) -- Tensions between the United States and Russia over the crisis in Crimea have exploded into an open row as Russia rejects U.S. diplomatic efforts to solve the impasse.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry postponed a face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss American proposals, which Moscow has effectively rejected, on solving the crisis.

The meeting, which Russia said was supposed to happen Monday, would have marked the highest-level contact between the two countries since Russian troops took up positions in Crimea, and would have come ahead of Sunday's potentially explosive vote on whether Crimea should split from Ukraine and join Russia.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Roundup: Opinions on Ukraine From American and Foreign Media -- Voice of America

Klitschko Interview: 'I'd Also Shake Hands with Devil To Save Lives' -- Marc Hujer and Christian Neef, Speigel Online

On The Scene: Elizabeth Arrott in Simferopol, Ukraine -- Voice of America

Today Crimea, tomorrow Estonia? -- William Cook, The Spectator

Putin's Targets: Will eastern Ukraine and northern Kazakhstan be next? -- Peter Eltsov and Klaus Larres, New Republic

The World Needs Russia. Russia Does Not Need Putin. -- Adam Michnik, New Republic

Syrian opposition can learn from Ukraine -- Michel Kilo, Al-Monitor

How to Deal with North Korea -- Doug Bandow, National Interest

Afghanistan's Elections: What Success Would Look Like -- Michael O'Hanlon and Najib Sharifi, National Interest

Will Scotland Go Independent? -- Jonathan Freedland, New York Review Of Books

Venezuela Goes Mad -- Rafael Osio Cabrices, New York Times

Venezuela's 'angry gochos': Why protests continue in western Venezuela -- Sibylla Brodzinsky, Christian Science Monitor

Is China in Al Qaeda’s Crosshairs? -- Rachael Levy, Vocativ

Slavery reparations: Is money the answer? -- inside Story/Al Jazeera

The C.I.A. Torture Cover-Up -- New York Times

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