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Putin says Russia may offer passports to all Ukrainians

Bloomberg Russian President Vladimir Putin said he may extend an offer of citizenship to cover all Ukrainians after he sparked controversy by ordering passports to be made available to people in areas of the country controlled by pro-Moscow separatists. Russia’s offer of citizenship is “not only to the people who live” in the rebel-held areas of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk and ...

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US must break out of its ‘terrorism fatigue’

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One disturbing aspect of the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka was that the slaughter of 321 victims came at a time when America is suffering what might be described as “terrorism fatigue.” The wars against Al Qaida and the IS extremists are part of a painful past that policymakers and the public want to escape. Those Middle East conflicts ...

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The real crisis risk at the ECB

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The euro zone has only recently recovered from a double-dip recession, but there are already questions about how prepared it would be for a new crisis. All eyes are on the European Central Bank (ECB), which has been the strongest line of defense against an economic slowdown. While pessimists worry that the ECB has few tools left if it needs ...

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