Section: The Vancouver Sun (Canada)
Nagorno-Karabakh: This ‘frozen’ post-Soviet conflict is heating up and fits right in with current global chaos
With more than 60 deaths during four days, one of the many ‘frozen’ post-Soviet conflicts — Ossetia, Abkhazia, Crimea, Transnistria — may have suddenly became unfrozen …read more Source: Vancouver...
Here is what the ‘Panama Papers’ tell us about the embattled President of Ukraine
The release of the Panama papers will accelerate the public debate in Ukraine about outdated corporate governance laws, potential conflicts of interests and political accountability …read more Source: Vancouver...
Putin associates stashed billions in offshore accounts, leaked records from Panamanian law firm reveal
Mossack Fonesca did not serve only the Russian elite. Putin’s arch enemy, Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, also appears to have made use of the Panamanian law firm …read more Source: Vancouver...
Prisoner exchange offered after Ukrainian officer sentenced to 22 years in Russian penal colony
Ukrainian officer Nadiya Savchenko, 34, was convicted by a court in Russia of complicity in the murder of two Russian journalists following a controversial trial …read more Source: Vancouver...
Wife of Ukrainian pianist charged with killing daughters — three years after he won a ‘cursed’ competition
‘You can imagine the stresses’: Past winners of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition died of AIDS, a series of strokes and suicide …read more Source: Vancouver...
Russian court poised to find Ukrainian pilot guilty for deaths of journalists in ‘Stalinist-era show trial’
Lt. Nadiya Savchenko had been accused of helping the Ukrainian army target the shelling that led to the June 2014 deaths of two Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine …read more Source: Vancouver...
Captured Ukrainian military pilot who flipped off Russian judge ends hunger strike with drink of water
But she may have done so after falling for a trick by Russian intelligence agencies, her lawyer, Mark Feygin, later said …read more Source: Vancouver...
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...
Obama’s passivity after Syria crossed his ‘red line’ changed the world, France’s ex-foreign minister says
There were global consequences for Syria’s unpunished use of chemical weapons, most notably in Russia’s attack on Crimea the next year, Laurent Fabius says …read more Source: Vancouver...
Putin launches surprise military drills near Ukraine border as civil war threatens to reignite in Donbass
Vladimir Putin has scrambled troops across southwestern Russia for large-scale military drills intended to test the troop readiness amid continuing tensions with the West …read more Source: Vancouver...
