Section: US & Canada
Mapping Chernobyl’s Radiation Hot Spots
Automated drones have been deployed to map in 3D radiation distribution in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine, site of the 1986 nuclear disaster. The U.K. researchers behind the project say the drones could be deployed in nuclear emergencies to quickly identify danger areas. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Congressional Inaction Is Emboldening Trump
It took Rudy Giuliani less than a month after the release of the Mueller report to begin colluding. In a buoyant interview with The New York Times on May 9, President Trump’s personal lawyer unveiled his plans to push the incoming Ukrainian government to kickstart an inquiry that, Giuliani hoped, would be politically damaging to former vice...
US, Russian Officials Signal Desire to Improve Relations
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said nearly two hours of meetings Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov about “nearly every issue facing our two countries” were productive, though there appeared to be no major breakthroughs. The United States and Russia both have interests in a number of...
Biden Swipes At Rudy’s ‘Inappropriate’ Ukraine Trip: ‘It’s Sort Of Giuliani’s Style’
2020 Democratic candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden took a swipe at Rudy Giuliani in an interview published on Tuesday after the President’s lawyer almost traveled to Ukraine to push the government to open an investigation into his son, Hunter Biden. “It’s sort of Giuliani’s style and this administration,” Biden told...
US, Russia Agree to Talk Again, Meet in Sochi
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov agreed to work to normalize strained relations and restore bilateral channels of communication following talks Tuesday at the Black Sea resort of Sochi. Although Pompeo and Lavrov discussed a wide range of bilateral and international problems, including the situations...
Germany’s Russia Lobby
In Germany, prominent Russia advocates abound. Most recently, Horst Teltschik accuses the West of being “obsessed” with blaming Vladimir Putin for all the evils in world politics, thus “alienating” him from cooperation. Jürgen Todenhöfer denounces the “demonization” of Russia, which, according to him, gets a bad rap. And in a collection of essays...
Trump’s ‘Good Cop’ Routine With Putin Could Seriously Backfire
Listening to President Donald Trump, he sounds like a heretic inside his own government: the lone official prepared to accept that Russian President Vladimir Putin is trustworthy and sincere.Nikki Haley, the president’s former ambassador to the United Nations, last week called Putin an enemy. National Security Adviser John Bolton has...
Secretary Pompeo to Russia: Interference in American Elections is Unacceptable
At a press conference in Sochi alongside Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo unequivocally declared, “interference in American elections is unacceptable.” “If the Russians were engaged in that in 2020, it would put our relationship in an even worse place than it has been,” Pompeo added....
Poland Proposes Closer Ties For EU Eastern Partnership Nations
The Polish foreign minister has called for an upgraded Eastern Partnership, including closer ties with the European Union and the creation of a free-trade zone among the six member nations. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Report: China, Russia Deepening Defense Partnership
China and Russia have developed an increasingly close security relationship that poses new and difficult challenges to the United States, according to a new report. Dr. Richard Weitz, a senior fellow and director of the Center for Political-Military Analysis at the Hudson Institute, explains in the report that the Sino-Russian defense partnership...
