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The Towson orchestra, based at Loch Raven High School, charges no admission to help spread a love of classical music to people young and old.

This Spy vs. Spy relationship with Russia has plunged us into a new Cold War that feels more threatening and unpredictable than the first.

Vladimir Putin functions in long-term historical categories. In recent years, he has increasingly invoked them to achieve political goals. To grasp Russia’s political vector under Mr. Putin, we need to be more attuned to his use of history.

Of all Barack Obama's costumes, the most ill-fitting is that of the hawk. The guise doesn't work for all sorts of ideological and historical reasons. Plus there's the fact that he's rushing to put on the outfit as he's heading out the door.

At the highest levels, the U.S. and European Union believe that corruption in Russia is so extensive that after the invasion of Crimea and Ukraine, they directed many sanctions toward Russia's elite. John McCain maintained in 2013 that Putin rules by "corruption, repression and violence," and various news commentators calls Mr. Putin a "thug" at every turn. Yet, considering some of the legislation and behavior of our own political class, these claims seem sanctimonious. U.S. politicians would do

With the personal approval of the Defense Secretary, Ukrainian Col. Ihor Hordiychuk is the beneficiary of a little-known program that the Defense Department uses to take care of allied soldiers on American soil.

The meeting of the Russian foreign minister and the U.S. secretary of state in Paris last month has led to a surprising thaw in relations and an opportunity these two countries should not waste.

Until Russia directly harms the U.S., America should keep its troops out of Ukraine.

The Ukraine crisis owes its roots to a deal America made and broke with the recently deceased Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze.

As Russia's actions in Ukraine rattle its neighbors, the Maryland National Guard is affirming its decades-long partnership with Estonia.

Ukraine sought to unify during this weekend's election, while European Union members voted for nationalist parties.

Approximately 12 percent of the Crimean population — over 250,000 people — are ethnically "Tatar," a largely pro-Ukrainian, Sunni Muslim group. They have an embattled history with Russia.

President Putin doesn't realize how much leverage the West has over Russia's economy; it's up to the U.S. and its allies to convince him he doesn't want to find out the hard way

Russian-organized protests in the eastern part of the country could provide a pretext for invasion

The conventional view in Washington is that Mr. Putin is a belligerent authoritarian intent upon expanding Russia's borders and confronting the West. What the White House refuses to acknowledge, however, is that the Russian leader is simply acting in what he believes to be his country's best interest.

Friends School students take a trip to Russia in the midst of geopolitical turmoil and find the Russian people to be kind of blase about Crime and the Ukraine, compared to the hyperbole in Western media. The most nerve-wracking part of the trip came at the end, when a pilot strike delayed their departure for a day and a half, and they had to switch from Lufthansa to the Emirates airline.

Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians are justifiably concerned about the Russian invasion. But their fight, in its narrowest terms, is not our fight.

After playing in only four of the team's first 32 games, Alex Len has slowly made his way into first-year coach Jeff Hornacek's rotation, playing behind former Duke star Miles Plumlee and, if the Suns go to a smaller lineup, Channing Frye.

U.S. and its European allies badly underestimate Putin's ambitions

President Barack Obama must take stronger steps to confront Vladimir Putin.

Russia's land grab in the Crimea has created the most serious European security crisis since the end of the Cold War.

The U.S. should stay out of the crisis in Crimea

Hillary Clinton touched the 'third rail' of foreign policy by making a Hitler reference in relation to the crisis in Ukraine.

Amid the storm created by Russian President Vladimir Putin's extralegal incursion into the Crimean peninsula, the U.S. and Europe risk allowing an event equally important to Ukraine's future to fall out of focus: the May 25 election in which the divided country is set to select a new president. The credibility, inclusivity and peacefulness of this event are vital to U.S. and European interests.