Trump Administration takes heat for State Department and Treasury's "weak" blacklist for new sanctions. Stocks and bonds spared.
Bei seinem Ukrainebesuch Anfang Januar 2018 sprach Außenminister Sigmar Gabriel die Entsendung einer vollwertigen UN-Friedensmission in das Donezbecken (bzw. „der Donbas“) als...
Moscow's military is back--sort of.
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/russias-military-used-215-new-weapons-systems-syria-24283
With United Nations-sponsored talks to end the civil war getting nowhere, Russia staged its own. Neither has made much progress.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/world/middleeast/syria-russia-sochi-talks.html
https://ru.krymr.com/a/29005285.html
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3533418
https://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2018/01/29_a_11628913.shtml
https://www.gazeta.ru/army/2018/01/29/11629213.shtml
https://www.rbc.ru/newspaper/2018/01/29/5a6d87959a79475a5bddfac9