Seventy years after their families' mass deportation under Soviet leader Josef Stalin, the Crimean Tatars are in a quandary: should they cooperate with their homeland's new Russian authorities or resist them?

• Date: 15.05.2014  |  Published on EGF: 15.05.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

He is a man with three names, sought by Ukrainian intelligence as the top Russian operative in the separatist east. He moves through the streets in a black Mercedes, his face with pencil moustache hidden behind tinted windows, and his aim is to "destroy" Ukrainian forces that venture onto his territory.

• Date: 15.05.2014  |  Published on EGF: 15.05.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

NATO members in Central and Eastern Europe need to beef up defense spending after cutting it for the past five years while Russia has sharply increased its military budget, the head of the Western alliance said on Thursday.

• Date: 15.05.2014  |  Published on EGF: 15.05.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Europe is partly to blame for the crisis in Ukraine although this is no excuse for Russian behavior towards the former Soviet republic, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's deputy said on Wednesday.

• Date: 14.05.2014  |  Published on EGF: 14.05.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday Russia's defense industry should stop relying on foreign components and become self-sufficient following Western sanctions imposed on Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine.

• Date: 14.05.2014  |  Published on EGF: 14.05.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Rioting broke out at industrial zones in southern Vietnam during protests by thousands of workers angered by Chinese oil drilling in a contested area of the South China Sea, officials said on Wednesday.

• Date: 14.05.2014  |  Published on EGF: 14.05.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russia's Gazprom (GAZP.MM) demanded a $1.66 billion pre-payment from Ukraine for June gas deliveries on Tuesday, saying the neighboring country had only half its requirements in storage to ensure a trouble-free winter

• Date: 13.05.2014  |  Published on EGF: 13.05.2014  |  Energy  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

President Barack Obama's decision on possible changes to U.S. deportation policy sets up an election-year skirmish that could help Democrats win points with their political base while irritating Republicans who are open to immigration reform.

• Date: 13.05.2014  |  Published on EGF: 13.05.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/