{"id":39726,"date":"2014-04-14T09:54:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T16:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=39726"},"modified":"2014-04-14T09:54:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T16:54:42","slug":"civil-war-in-ukraine-and-prospects-for-us-russia-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/04\/14\/civil-war-in-ukraine-and-prospects-for-us-russia-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil War in Ukraine and Prospects for US-Russia Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140414Uprising\/2014_04_14_vanden_huevel.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Katrina Vanden Huevel <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140414Uprising\/2014_04_14_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Host Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/ukraine_war.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Just weeks after Crimea&#8217;s vote to secede from the Ukraine and join Russia, Ukrainians are preparing for a Presidential election on May 25th. The lead-up to the election is highlighting tensions between Russia and the West. <\/p>\n<p>Fears of Russian expansionism are driving speculation over the motivations of tens of thousands of Russian troops stationed near Russia&#8217;s border, recently apparently exposed by satellite photos. NATO officials have warned that Russia could deploy those troops at a moment&#8217;s notice. President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s administration has argued that NATO is exaggerating and, in the words of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, authorities are harboring &#8220;groundless fears, phobias and ambitions of a minority of [NATO] members.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Eastern Ukrainian towns of Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk have faced serious pro-Russian protests. Just this morning, pro-Russian protesters took over a government building in the city of Horlivka. The Washington Post is reporting that &#8220;Ukraine\u2019s acting president said he would welcome United Nations peacekeepers to help establish order by conducting a &#8216;joint counterterrorist operation&#8217; with Ukrainian forces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Katrina Vanden Huevel,  editor and publisher of The Nation, a long time expert on US-Russia relations<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blog\/179285\/nuclear-safety-should-never-be-bargaining-chip\">Click here<\/a> to read Vanden Heuvel&#8217;s recent blog about US-Russia nuclear talks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just weeks after Crimea&#8217;s vote to secede from the Ukraine and join Russia, Ukrainians are preparing for a Presidential election on May 25th. The lead-up to the election is highlighting tensions between Russia and the West. Fears of Russian expansionism are driving speculation over the motivations of tens of thousands of Russian troops stationed near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39740,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39726\/revisions\/39740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}