Section: National Post (Canada)
Robert Fulford: Putin says Ukraine isn’t a country. Too many in the West agree with him
This week, the Ukrainian parliament banned all Russian films released after Jan. 1, 2014, the date Russia annexed Crimea, moving it from Ukraine’s jurisdiction to Russia’s. The note accompanying the decision said it was taken for reasons of national security. Connecting security with movies sounds like eccentric policy, but perhaps...
NYC exhibition explores works of Ukrainian-American woodcut artist Jacques Hnizdovsky
NEW YORK — A new exhibition explores the prolific career of Ukrainian-American artist Jacques Hnizdovsky, a master of intricate woodcuts and paintings depicting an array of stylized flora and fauna. “Jacques Hnizdovsky: Content and Style” at the Ukrainian Museum in New York’s East Village covers the breadth of his creative output, from 1944...
Russian court poised to find Ukrainian pilot guilty for deaths of journalists in ‘Stalinist-era show trial’
MOSCOW – A Russian court appeared Monday to lay the groundwork for a guilty verdict against a Ukrainian helicopter pilot nicknamed Ukraine’s “Joan of Arc,” Russian news agencies reported, wrapping up a trial over the 2014 deaths of two Russian journalists that has revived memories of Stalin-era show trials. There was, however, initial...
Captured Ukrainian military pilot who flipped off Russian judge ends hunger strike with drink of water
MOSCOW — Nadya (Nadezhda) Savchenko, a captured Ukrainian military pilot who in a show of defiance raised her middle finger to a Russian judge and sang the Ukrainian national anthem in court, ended a dry hunger strike on Thursday by drinking water, according to her lawyer. Associated PressNadezhda (Nadya) Savchenko is on trial as an accessory to...
Ukrainian pilot denounces trial in Russia as ‘farce of Kremlin puppets’
DONETSK, Russia — A Ukrainian pilot charged in the deaths of two Russian journalists on Wednesday denounced her trial as a farce. “In Russia, there are no courts and no investigations,” Nadezhda SavchenkoAP Photo/FileNadezhda Savchenko stands in a glass cage during her trial in Donetsk, Russia told the court in the Russian border town of Donetsk....
Leonid Bershidsky: Why Putin stopped at the Crimea
President Vladimir Putin has boasted that Russia took over Crimea “without a single shot being fired.” There’s even a propaganda movie that presents the operation as the result of brilliant Kremlin planning and seamless execution. A document published on Monday shed new light on why the annexation was bloodless — and on the limits of...
Pretty please? Russia asking permission to fly over U.S. with advanced digital camera
WASHINGTON — Russia will ask permission on Monday to start flying surveillance planes equipped with high-powered digital cameras amid warnings from U.S. intelligence and military officials that such overflights help Moscow collect intelligence on the United States. Russia and the United States are signatories to the Open Skies Treaty, which...
Matt Gurney: Missing the Cold War? You can get a taste of it again in Eastern Europe
I confess to always having had a touch of Cold War envy. As a keen watcher of military and geopolitical affairs, I far prefer the relatively clear and orderly divisions of the superpower rivalry to the gigantic sucking chest wound that is modern international affairs. I’m old enough, barely, to remember the dying days of the Cold War — my...
Talking to Russia doesn’t mean abandoning Ukraine, ambassador says
Ukraine’s new ambassador to Canada has dismissed suggestions the Liberal government is automatically abandoning his country by re-engaging with Russia. In an exclusive interview, Ukrainian Ambassador Andriy Shevchenko said he hopes Canada will boost its support for his country, including through the provision of arms and long-term aid. He...
Michael Colborne: Russia’s bald-faced lies
We can complain all we want about lying politicians in our own country, but last week Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stepped up and showed us how it’s really done: without batting an eye, he told a press conference that Russia had never violated the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, the agreement that guaranteed Ukraine’s territorial...
