Section: US & Canada
Sunflowers From Ukraine Memorialize Dutch MH17 Victims
Five years ago, on July 17, 2014, flight MH17 was shot down over the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board. In the Dutch city of Hilversum, home to 15 of the victims, residents have planted memorial gardens of sunflowers grown from seeds gathered near the crash site. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
RFE/RL Urges Release Of Ukrainian Journalist Held By Separatists For Two Years
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has urged Russia-backed separatists to release blogger Stanislav Aseyev, who has been held in eastern Ukraine since July 2017. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Could Jeremy Corbyn Destroy the Special Relationship?
The resignation last week of Britain’s ambassador to the United States was a reminder of the sorry state of the special relationship—as if one were needed. The strains on the allegiance that, with a healthy dollop of self-flattery, we Brits think is essential for the United Kingdom, the United States, and even the rest of the world, are...
Italian Weapons Cache Tied To Suspects Who Fought In Ukraine
Italian police are continuing their investigation into a far-right group found to have a large cache of weapons, including an air-to-air missile. The investigation centers on men who once fought in the pro-Russia separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Moscow Court Extends Detention For Captured Ukrainian Sailors
A Moscow court has extended the pretrial detention of 6 captured Ukrainian sailors by 3 months. They are among 24 Ukrainian sailors currently being held by Russia after they and their 3 vessels were seized last November in the Kerch Strait. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Moscow Court Extends Pretrial Detention Of 24 Ukrainian Sailors
A Moscow court has prolonged by three months the pretrial detention of 24 Ukrainian sailors detained by Russian forces along with their three naval vessels in November near the Kerch Strait, which links the Black Sea and Sea of Azov. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Mr. President, It’s Time to Meet With Ukraine’s New Leader
There is an old saying that I made up: “Nobody wants to be a suburb of Moscow.” That’s the sum of decades of experience witnessing how the Soviet Union abused captive nations, now only to watch history repeat itself through Russian President Vladimir Putin’s destabilizing foreign policy. Put Ukraine at the top of the list of free...
Victims’ Families, Nations Commemorate MH17 Tragedy
Families of victims and their countries’ embassies are marking the fifth anniversary of the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine, amid mounting evidence of Russia’s involvement in shooting the passenger plane out of the sky.The airliner flying between Amsterdam and Kuala Lumpur was shot...
Ukraine’s Constitutional Court Upholds Law Equating Communism To Nazism
Ukraine’s Constitutional Court has upheld a law that equates communism to Nazism and bans the dissemination of its symbols, a law that has prompted angry protests from Moscow. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Relatives of victims mark 5th anniversary of MH17 downing
Five years after a missile blew Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 out of the sky above eastern Ukraine, relatives and friends of those killed are gathering at a Dutch memorial to mark the anniversary …read more Source: The Washington...
