News / MN Newsletter // May 17

May 17, 2019

Russia Ukraine Belarus' Belnefthekhim says oil transit flows to Ukraine suspended - Reuters UK Russia’s Covert Tactics Aim to Alienate Ukraine’s Western Neighbors - The Wall Street Journal Russia's Crimean Annexation Cost Ukrainian Ports $400Mln – FT - The Moscow Times Russia and the Iran Crisis - LobeLog Giacomo Sanfilippo: Orthodoxy, sexuality, and gender in Ukraine | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice - Kyiv Post Belarus' Belnefthekhim says oil transit flows to Ukraine suspended - Reuters UK Reuters UK MINSK, May 17 (Reuters) - Belarusian state oil company Belnefthekhim said on Friday Russian oil transit flows to Ukraine had been suspended because the country was still struggling to process contaminated crude it received last month. Read More Russia’s Covert Tactics Aim to Alienate Ukraine’s Western Neighbors - The Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal Russia’s efforts to keep Ukraine in its orbit have included invasions, targeted assassinations and economic coercion. Less prominently, Moscow has directed a clandestine campaign of vandalism and hate crimes aimed at spoiling Ukraine’s relations with its western neighbors, Ukrainian and European officials say. Read More Russia's Crimean Annexation Cost Ukrainian Ports $400Mln – FT - The Moscow Times The Moscow Times Ukrainian ports have lost $400 million in potential revenue from Russia’s seizure of Crimea and its chokehold on a key shipping passage with a bridge that connects the peninsula to mainland Russia, The Financial Times reported. Read More Russia and the Iran Crisis - LobeLog LobeLog by Mark N. Katz As tensions ratchet up between Washington and Tehran, Moscow has adopted a more measured approach. Putin, along with many of Washington’s Western allies, has criticized the Trump administration’s withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreement reached during the Obama years. Read More Giacomo Sanfilippo: Orthodoxy, sexuality, and gender in Ukraine | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post On May 14, UNIAN reported that Ukraine ranks 35th out of 49 European countries on an index of LGBTQ rights and protections. The methodology for creating this ranking is described at ILGA Europe, while the full list of countries and rankings is found on its Rainbow Europe page. Read More

Top News Democratic presidential candidates agree: Big Tech is too powerful - The Verge POLITICO Playbook: 2 mysteries of the Trump White House - POLITICO Climate change: Will India's election energy lead to CO2 rise? - BBC News Asus’ $499 ZenFone 6 has a flip-up camera and a giant battery - TechCrunch Sooners Qualify 34 to NCAA West Regional - Soonersports.com Democratic presidential candidates agree: Big Tech is too powerful - The Verge The Verge On Monday I noted here a growing consensus among Democratic presidential candidates that Big Tech in general, and Facebook specifically, should perhaps be broken up. Sen. Kamala Harris said “we have to seriously take a look” at breaking up Facebook. Read More POLITICO Playbook: 2 mysteries of the Trump White House - POLITICO POLITICO Presented by DRIVING THE DAY TWO WHITE HOUSE MYSTERIES ... MYSTERY NO. 1: THERE WAS A LOT OF GRIPING ON CAPITOL HILL that when the president announced his immigration plan, Republicans did not have any paper whatsoever to explain what he was proposing. Read More Climate change: Will India's election energy lead to CO2 rise? - BBC News BBC News Image caption India's CO2 emissions is predicted to roughly double by 2040 India's major political parties competing in the ongoing general elections have pledged free electricity to farmers, ambitious infrastructure projects and rapid expansion of the manufacturing sector. Read More Asus’ $499 ZenFone 6 has a flip-up camera and a giant battery - TechCrunch TechCrunch Asus’ $499 ZenFone 6 has a flip-up camera and a giant battery Premium smartphone manufacturers have moved the needle on pricing, but 2019 may well go down as a kind of golden age for budget flagships. Read More Sooners Qualify 34 to NCAA West Regional - Soonersports.com Soonersports.com NORMAN – The Oklahoma track and field teams will have 34 qualifiers (16 men, 18 women) competing at the NCAA West Regional in Sacramento, Calif., on the campus of California State University-Sacramento, May 23-25. Read More

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