Section: US & Canada
HBO show’s popularity drives Chornobyl tourism boom
The success of a U.S. television miniseries examining the world’s worst nuclear accident at Chornobyl has driven up the number of tourists wanting to see the plant and the abandoned ghost town in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Brussels To Drop Criticism Of Ukraine’s Controversial Education Law
A draft statement expected to be issued at an upcoming EU-Ukraine summit will express Brussels’ continued recognition of Ukraine’s European aspirations while dropping criticism of the country’s education law, according to a copy of the draft seen by RFE/RL. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Spellcheck beware: Ukraine’s capital is #KyivNotKiev
The United States Board on Geographic Names will officially list the capital of Ukraine as Kyiv, not Kiev. It’s the result of years of advocacy by the Ukrainian government to popularize the Ukrainian spelling. But why does it matter? …read more Source: Public Radio...
‘It’s Time To Pay’: Ukraine Detains Donetsk Separatist Referendum Organizer
The chief organizer of a 2014 Donetsk separatist “independence” referendum in eastern Ukraine condemned by the international community has been detained by Ukrainian authorities, Prosecutor-General Yuriy Lutsenko has announced. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
HBO Series Fuels Chernobyl Tourism Boom
Tourists are flocking to explore Chernobyl’s exclusion zone in Ukraine after the HBO miniseries dramatized the 1986 meltdown at the doomed nuclear plant. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Poll Shows Fewer Russians Consider Ukraine, U.S. As Enemies
Fewer Russians consider Ukraine and the United States as enemy states as they shift their attention toward growing domestic problems, according to a new poll. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
U.S. Senators Submit Bill To Sanction Russian Gas Pipeline
A group of U.S. Republican senators has introduced a bill to sanction a Kremlin pipeline project as Washington seeks to force its European allies to reduce their dependence on Russian energy. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Vladimir Putin not interested in fighting corruption in Moldova
I laughed when I read Western press accounts regarding the current governmental crisis in the Eastern European nation of Moldova. Over the last few weeks, oligarch Vladimir Plahotnuic’s control over the tiny former Soviet republic, sandwiched between Ukraine and Romania, has been threatened. A coalition of the Socialist Party, headed...
Saakashvili, Party Colleagues To Run In Ukraine’s Parliamentary Elections
The party of Mikheil Saakashvili, the former Georgian president who served as governor of Ukraine’s Odesa region in 2015-16, has presented its list of top 10 candidates for Ukraine’s July 21 parliamentary elections. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Trump: ‘I Meet and Talk to Foreign Governments Every Day’
President Donald Trump took to Twitter Thursday to defend his stance that he would check out information from foreign governments about political opponents before going to the FBI. ABC’s George Stephanopoulos asked Trump in an interview Wednesday what he would do if someone from a foreign government came to him with information on an...
