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Russia beefs up military on southwestern flank as NATO approaches
Russia has strengthened its southwestern flank as NATO builds up its military presence near its borders and next-door Ukraine remains unstable, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Wednesday. …read more Source: The Daily...
Thousands of Russian Orthodox gather in Kiev despite threats
Thousands of Russian Orthodox Christian pilgrims have reached the center of Ukraine’s capital to finish their procession to the city’s most revered monastery after their march was disrupted Tuesday. …read more Source: The Daily...
Firebombs hurled at hassidic luminary’s grave in Ukraine
Grave of Arye Leib, disciple of ‘Maggid’ of Mezeritch, desecrated by firebombs. …read more Source: Arutz...
Controversial religious procession barred from entering Kiev
Authorities in Ukraine’s capital say pilgrims in a major religious procession connected with a Moscow-loyal church will be taken to their goal by bus, a compromise reached hours after participants in the procession were barred from entering Kiev on foot. …read more Source: The Daily...
Death and rebirth in contemporary Ukrainian journalism
Ukraine deserves to break out of its current state to resolve the protracted war in the east and pervasive corruption. …read more Source: AL...
100-year global study finds world’s tallest are Dutch, Latvians
Dutch men and Latvian women are the planet’s tallest people but Iranian men and South Korean women have grown the fastest in the last century, according to the largest ever study of height around the world. Americans, once among the world’s tallest people, have dropped from having men and women at 3rd and 4th in the global height...
Fighting continues in eastern Ukraine despite ceasefire
Violence has intensified in eastern Ukraine as more people are killed in clashes between government forces and pro-Russia militia. …read more Source:...
Six Ukrainian soldiers killed in troubled east
Six Ukrainian soldiers are killed in a fresh wave of clashes with pro-Russia forces in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Six Ukrainian soldiers killed as clashes surge
The latest deaths come after the government on Tuesday reported fighting had claimed the lives of seven servicemen in the highest one-day death toll in the conflict for two months. …read more Source: World...
Six Ukrainian soldiers killed as clashes surge
Six Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and thirteen wounded in a fresh surge of fighting between pro-Russian rebels and government forces in the country’s war-torn east, Kiev said Sunday …read more Source: The Daily...
