Section: US & Canada
After Two Years, Journalist Aseyev Remains Captive In Donbas
In the spring of 2017, RFE/RL contributor Stanislav Aseyev was allegedly abducted by Russia-backed separatists while reporting from the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine. Two years later, he is still being held. His only opportunity to communicate with the outside world was when he appeared in handcuffs on Russian state-run TV and said he had been...
Estonian President to EU Centrists: Be a Voice for Disenfranchised
As far-right nationalists look to expand their power in European Parliamentary elections taking place this weekend, Estonia’s president has some advice for politically embattled centrists: don’t blame Brussels for waning political support at home. A once-shining example of democratic growth, progressive e-governance policies and a...
‘Brightburn’: What If Superman Was a Murderous, Sexually-Frustrated Supervillain?
Courtesy of Sony PicturesIntegral to the Superman myth is the issue of nature versus nurture. In its classical incarnation, the DC Comics icon is both the offspring of noble Kryptonian parents and the beneficiary of good old-fashioned heartland values, courtesy of Kansas’ Jonathan and Martha Kent. It’s the latter, however, that at The...
Ukrainian Church Leaders Meet Amid Power Struggle
Top figures in Ukraine’s new Orthodox Church are meeting in a synod amid an apparent power struggle between Patriarch Filaret, an early vocal supporter of the independent Ukrainian church, and the new church’s elected head, Metropolitan Epifaniy. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine’s PrivatBank Sues Billiionare Kolomoisky In U.S. Court
PrivatBank filed the lawsuit against Ihor Kolomoyskiy and Hennadiy Bogolyubov, one day after Ukraine’s newly elected president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, was sworn into office. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
A timeline of official apologies from the federal government
OTTAWA — When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday exonerated Chief Poundmaker in Saskatchewan, it was the latest in a long list of government efforts to apologize for past wrongs. Here are a few formal and informal apologies: 1988 Sept. 22: Prime minister Brian Mulroney formally apologizes in the House of Commons for the internment of...
Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Zelensky Era
If Moscow felt a warm sense of schadenfreude at the electoral trouncing of Ukraine’s incumbent President Poroshenko in the second round of the April 21 presidential elections, celebrations were outwardly subdued. Largely absent was the open, vindictive gloating that had accompanied Viktor Yushchenko’s record-breaking humiliation in...
Medieval Warriors Storm Ukrainian Battlefield
More than 1,000 men and women from dozens of countries took part in a world championship in medieval-style combat in Ukraine, beating their armored opponents with blunt swords and battleaxes. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Manafort Lender Steve Calk Indicted For Loan Linked To Trump Cabinet Post Hopes
Bank CEO Stephen Calk has been charged with financial institution bribery for the $16 million in loans he extended former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort in late 2016 and early 2017, allegedly in the hope that Manafort would secure him a position in Trump’s cabinet. The indictment, filed in the Southern District of New York and...
Winnipeg church’s statue left headless; scrap dealers possible saving grace
WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg church’s bronze statue of a prominent saint that was once blessed by a pope has been decapitated. The work depicting St. Volodymyr outside the Cathedral of Sts. Vladimir and Olga in the city’s north end was stolen early Tuesday morning. A cross-like symbol seen on the Ukrainian coat of arms that’s included...
