Section: US & Canada
EU court annuls fund freeze of 7 former Ukraine officials
One of the European Union’s highest courts has annulled an asset freeze against seven former leading Ukraine officials accused of siphoning off state funds for their own gain. The General … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Russia’s Putin Says He’s Ready for Talks With Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he’s willing to sit down with Ukraine’s new president for talks to settle a deadly conflict in eastern Ukraine.Putin responded Thursday to Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s proposal to hold talks with the mediation of U.S., British, French and German leaders, saying that he is open to the idea. He said,...
EU Leader To Putin: Soviet Union’s Collapse ‘Was A Blessing,’ Not A Catastrophe
European Council President Donald Tusk has said that “the collapse of the Soviet Union was a blessing” for Central and Eastern Europe. Speaking on July 11 at an international conference in the Georgian city of Batumi, Tusk was referring to a frequently quoted statement from Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Russian parliament in...
Russia’s Putin says he’s ready for talks with Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he’s willing to sit down with Ukraine’s new president for talks to settle a deadly conflict in eastern Ukraine …read more Source: The Washington...
Russia’s Putin says he’s ready for talks with Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he’s willing to sit down with Ukraine’s new president for talks to settle a deadly conflict in eastern Ukraine. Putin responded Thursday to Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Russia’s Putin says he’s ready for talks with Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he’s willing to sit down with Ukraine’s new president for talks to settle a deadly conflict in eastern Ukraine …read more Source: ABC...
Moscow Police Detain Dozens Of Supporters Of Crimean Tatars Convicted On Terrorism Charges
Police in Moscow have detained dozens of demonstrators who rallied in front of the Supreme Court to show solidarity with four Crimean Tatars sentenced to lengthy prison terms on terrorism charges. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Joe Biden’s Foreign Policy of Nostalgia
If the election of Donald Trump and rise of populists in Europe has killed off the liberal world order as we knew it, no one told Joe Biden. The former vice president is billing himself as the man who can revive it.Biden will deliver his first major foreign-policy address as a Democratic presidential contender today, and it will underscore a...
Ukrainian President Kicks Out ‘Rogue’ Official From Meeting Over Criminal Record
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy booted a regional government official with a criminal record from a meeting that was broadcast on live television. “Get out of here, rogue!” Zelenskiy shouted at Yaroslav Hodunok, a Boryspil city council secretary and parliamentary candidate. Zelenskiy was attending the meeting in the Kyiv...
Ukraine: Chernobyl’s radioactive dust shelter unveiled
KIEV, Ukraine — A structure built to confine radioactive dust from the nuclear reactor at the center of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster was formally unveiled on Wednesday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy inaugurated the “new safe confinement” shelter that spans the remains of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant’s Reactor No. 4. The...
