Section: US & Canada
Ukraine Deputy Minister Detained Over Alleged $1.1 Million Bribe Scheme
A Ukrainian deputy minister and his aide were detained on August 14 after taking an alleged bribe worth $480,000, the National Anticorruption Bureau (NABU) said on Facebook. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
FSB Raids Offices Of Moscow-Based Human Rights Group
Agents of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) have raided the offices of Russia Justice Initiative (RJI), a human rights group in Moscow.The group’s press secretary, Ksenia Babich, wrote on her Facebook page that officers said the August 14 searches were being conducted on the basis of a search warrant for the whole building,...
Ukraine’s Government Backs Away From Fight With Kyiv Mayor Klitschko
Ukraine’s government says it will not seek to take away part of Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko’s executive powers, at least for now. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Court Gives Green Light For Poroshenko To Take Lie-Detector Test
A Kyiv court has granted permission for authorities to administer a polygraph test to former President Petro Poroshenko in a tax evasion case, a spokeswoman for the State Bureau for Investigations (DBR) told Interfax on August 13. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
National-Security Council Chief: Ukraine’s Spy Agency Is Top Reform Priority
Reformation of Ukraine’s SBU security service was high on the agenda at the August 13 meeting between the head of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) and an international advisory group composed of representatives of the European Union, NATO, and the United States. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
VOA Interview: Russian Opposition Deputy Leonid Volkov
This story originated in VOA’s Russian Service. WASHINGTON – VOA Russian Service’s Danila Galperovich caught up with Leonid Volkov, fundraising chief for prominent Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, to discuss the recent street protests and mass arrests in Moscow.The interview occurred just hours after Russian officials...
A Kremlin-Linked Firm Invested Millions in Kentucky. Were They After More Than Money?
Last summer, it looked like things were finally about to change for Ashland, Ky. For two decades, the jobs that once supported this Appalachian outpost of 20,000 people on a bend in the Ohio River have been disappearing: 100 laid off from the freight-rail maintenance shop; dozens pink-slipped at the oil refinery; 1,100 axed at the steel mill that...
Ukraine’s President Offers Citizenship to Russian Political Refugees
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a decree Tuesday offering citizenship to Russians suffering political persecution, and also to foreigners who fought on Kyiv’s side in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.Zelenskiy had announced such a move last month in response to a Russian decree expanding the number of Ukrainians who can apply...
Isolated by Ukraine’s war, Mariupol looks for a peaceful future
In the port city of Mariupol, locals struggle with Ukraine’s ongoing civil war and plan for a future where trade with the world is free again. …read more Source: Christian Science...
Militarization Has Become Our National Religion
William Astore As attitudes toward war grow dangerously worshipful in the US, quitting our endless wars becomes all the more difficult. The post Militarization Has Become Our National Religion appeared first on The Nation. …read more Source: The...
