 Russia and the US, fuelled by fears that Moscow plans to invade Ukraine. Tensions also spiked Thursday along the line that separates Ukrainian forces from Russia-backed separatists in the country's east, with the parties accusing each other of intensive shelling.
Western fears resurged that Russia is planning to invade Ukraine, after weeks of East-West tensions that have threatened Europe's post-Cold War balance of power. The US and its NATO partners said they had seen no sign yet of Russia's promised troop withdrawal.
“We have seen the opposite of some of the statements. We have seen an increase of troops over the last 48 hours, up to 7,000," said British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace ahead of a meeting Thursday of the western alliance in Brussels. That squared with what a US administration official said a day earlier. The top EU official said similar.
British Armed Forces Minister James Heappey even called Russia's claim to be withdrawing troops “disinformation.” Russia accuses the West of the same. Russia has “enough troops, enough capabilities, to launch a full-fledged invasion of Ukraine with very little or no warning time,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said.
“The fact that you're putting a battle tank on a train and moving it in some direction doesn't prove a withdrawal of troops.” While no attack materialised Wednesday as some had feared, Western officials warned the threat of invasion remains high and vowed to counter it.
“The consequences of this mass buildup – nearly 60 per cent of Russia's land combat forces on the border of a sovereign nation – will get you the opposite effect,” Wallace said. “We are deadly serious,” he added, “and we're going to face the threat that is currently being posed.”
Moscow said several times this week that some forces are pulling back to their bases, but it gave few details that would allow for an independent assessment of the scope and direction of the troop movement. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj.-Gen. Igor Konashenkov offered a bit more detail Thursday, saying that Russian tank and infantry units that took part in drills in the Kursk and Bryansk regions neighboring Ukraine were pulling back to their permanent bases in Nizhny Novgorod region.
He said that some of those units already had arrived at their bases after a 700-kilometer journey east. Troops deployed for exercises in Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, have moved back to Chechnya and Dagestan in Russia's North Caucasus, he noted.
NATO, meanwhile, has moved troops and military equipment into Eastern Europe in a display of resolve of meant to deter any Russian aggression and underline its intent to defend NATO's eastern members, in the unlikely event that they too become a target. The US has started deploying 5,000 troops to Poland and Romania. Another 8,500 are on standby, and some US troops are expected to move toward Bulgaria.The nonorientable genus is additive

A graph G is a k-amalgamation of two graphs G1 and G2 if G = G1 ∪ G2 and G1 ∩G2 is a set of k vertices. In this paper we show that γ(G) differs from γ(G1) + γ(G2) by at most a quadratic on k, where γ denotes the nonorientable genus of a graph. In the sequel to this paper we show that no such bound holds for the orientable genus of k-amalgamations.While I was sitting at home last night wishing Breaking Bad was still on, Aaron Paul was at the airport in his Range Rover Sport. Paul’s wife, Lauren was spotted dropping him off at LAX and driving away in their Rover. Between this Rover and the Lamborghini Aventador we’ve also seen him driving, I’d say his off-screen car game is a definite step up from his on-screen Tercel.
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The hidden truth of Vedic..
1. Like it or leave it, the hinterland of India is firmly behind Modi.  For the first time, they have a leader and a party that has gone through almost 3 years without a single financial scam against their name. For a country used to spectacular monetary frauds and a silent PM who took plausible deniability to laughable proportions, this is a great and welcome change.
2.   Simply because he has hijacked their agenda and has started influencing public opinion more than carefully crafted editorials or freebies doled out during elections. Armchair experts who discussed Indian politics over the ubiquitous cup of ‘chai’ are being given a nice proverbial kick on their rounded rumps. The man is shaping opinions and this isn’t being liked by sections of the media who were interestingly the same set of people who are still smarting from Brexit and our own Trump presidency.
4. I get a sense that a lot of Indians consider it a status symbol to oppose Modi, as it makes them appear intellectual and secular. Case in point was the CM of Delhi (along with a lot of intellectuals) who questioned his educational qualifications. But again went completely silent when he was exonerated by the University that confirmed their authenticity. It’s the worst kind of ‘spit and run’ politics that you can imagine. People will keep spitting and hope that something sticks. Especially because no one can find one thing against this man which will get validated.
5. Public memory in India is notoriously short in India. The 1984 carnage in which the martial sect of Sikhs were mercilessly slaughtered has been forgotten by the state of Punjab, which has today booted out the Akali Dal and brought in the Congress. I see that not only as an example of short memory but also as a positive and mature sign, as a very corrupt incumbent party was thrown out. But then if this is being welcomed by a lot of intellectuals, why is a section of polity so perturbed by the BJP getting substantial Muslim votes in UP? Just like how the Sikhs have forgiven the Congress, maybe the Muslims have forgiven the BJP! Mind boggling double standards… Like the Sikhs, why can’t Muslims also want good governance and development?
6. As the third largest economy in PPP terms, India stunned the world by pulling out 86% of its currency that was in circulation. While it is still debatable whether it was a good move (as an Economics major, am not completely convinced), the country seems to lap it up. My sense is not whether it was a good or a bad move; it was a VISIBLE move, which when you analyze with the BJPs track record of no scams, seems to make Modi even more credible.
7. Where Modi lost the trick (in my opinion) is when he promised to put in a couple of million rupees in the accounts of the poor and underprivileged. And his promise of better days. That has backfired and seems to have given fodder to a lot of Indians who were expecting him to work miracles. And am not surprised. Since I do know that in the land of spiritual enlightenment, miracles are often expected and taken for granted.
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Should the “Rajiv Gandhi” Khel Ratna award be renamed as “Dhyan Chand” Khel Ratna Award?Russell Eugene Jones, age 57, of Neodesha, Kansas passed away at home on Monday, June 19th, 2017 surrounded by his family. Graveside services will be held at 10:30 AM, Thursday, June 22nd at Oak Hill Cemetery in Elk City, KS, with Pastor Terry Marta officiating. Travis Wilkes, Jeffrey Leddy, Jeff Jones, Buddy Finney, Tony Paul Fowler, and Tosh Littau will serve as pallbearers. Memorial contributions to Harry Hynes Hospice may be sent to Potts Chapel, 122 S. Penn Ave, Independence, KS 67301. Russell was born on December 1st, 1959 in Independence, Kansas to Rosalie Gail (McMurray) Jones and Graydon Lee Jones. Russell attended local schools and graduated Longton High School. He married Dawn Leddy on May 1st, 2009 and they made their home in Neodesha, KS. Russell worked at Cobalt Boats in Neodesha for 33 years. In his spare time he enjoyed riding his Harley Davidson, fishing, and spending time with his family. He attended the Nazarene Church in Elk City, KS. Survivors of Russell include: three daughters; Wyspher Wilkes and spouse Travis, Neodesha, KS, Jessica Leddy, Neodesha, KS, and Katelynn Jones, Neodesha, KS, four sons: Trayce Schmitt, Fort Walton Beach, Florida, Tosh Littau and spouse Tara, Independence, KS, Jeffrey Leddy and spouse Kristen, Wichita, KS, and Travis Leddy, Kansas City, MO, four brothers: Bob Jones and spouse Linda, Elk City, KS, Ronnie Jones and spouse Anita, Ozawkie, KS, Roger Jones and spouse Kris, Neodesha, KS, and Ricky Jones, Independence, KS