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Ukraine vs. Russia: A long and unhappy history
The new book The Gates of Europe details the enduring conflict for territory and identity between Russia and Ukraine. …read more Source: Toronto...
Spicer: Britain should look to the EU’s true heroine
Day after day, night after terrifying night, flimsy little boats dump their human cargo into the angry, icy Mediterranean. Who cares? German Chancellor Angela Merkel does. Late last year, she said her country could easily “manage” one million or more refugees from the intractable conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. Three months ago,...
Pennsylvania high school student was actually a 23-year-old Ukrainian man whose visa had expired
Artur Samarin was arrested and charged this week by the Harrisburg police, who say he pretended to be a high school student named Asher Potts …read more Source: Vancouver...
23-year-old Ukrainian man posed as American high school honours student
Police say a high school honours student just months from graduation is a 23-year-old Ukrainian national using a false identity after his visa expired. …read more Source: Global...
Pulled anti-IS fighter jets heading to Romania
Four of Canada’s six fighter jets recently pulled from the bombing mission against ISIS are heading to Romania as part of a new mission to train that country’s airforce. In a press release Thursday, the Department of National Defence announced the jets will head from Kuwait, where they were based during the bombing mission, to Romania...
Governments worried about corruption in Ukraine, lack of legislation to allow for elections
The foreign ministers of France and Germany, on a visit to Kiev, are expressing concerns about the political tensions that are impeding reform efforts in Ukraine and about the persisting conflict in eastern Ukraine, the Associated Press writes. Here is more from the Associated Press article: The two countries have been trying to help resolve the...
Re-engagement with Russia a dangerous proposition, says anti-Putin activist
At the 2014 G20 Summit, then prime minister Stephen Harper famously avoided Vladimir Putin completely, except for a tense handshake and a gritted message for the Russian leader to quote “get out of Ukraine.” …read more Source: National...
Ex-member of Nazi death squad wins another chance to keep Canadian citizenship
TORONTO — The federal government has hit another roadblock in its decades-long effort to strip Canadian citizenship from a now 92-year-old man who was once a member of a brutal Nazi death squad. In its decision, the Federal Court of Appeal set aside a ruling against Helmut Oberlander and ordered the government to take another look at the case....
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...
