Section: US & Canada
Ukraine’s Pig-Fat Chocolate
If life is like a box of chocolates, some Ukrainian confectioners are thinking well outside the box. Salo restaurant, in Ukraine’s western city of Lviv, has carved out a reputation for serving the eponymous Slavic food of cured pork fat with just about everything: The restaurant serves sushi rolls wrapped in strips of salo, and even an...
‘The Jews Will Not Replace Us!’
An advisor to Vladimir Putin suggests that Ukraine’s new President may cleanse the eastern portion of the country of ethnic Russians and repopulate the country with Jews. President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy is Jewish by birth. From the Moscow Times … Glazyev’s blog post on an obscure nationalist website appeared on the day that...
Russian Authorities Promise To Remove Accusatory Pages From Crimean History Textbook
The Russian authorities who control Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula have promised to remove a section of a high-school history textbook that claims many Crimean Tatars collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
WTF MSM!? Adam Sandler’s SNL skit reminds us how political comedy used to be
Rip-roaringly funny … On Saturday, comedian-actor Adam Sandler – who often shows up on lists of Hollywood conservatives – returned to “Saturday Night Live” to host the program for the first time. During the “Weekend Update” segment, Sandler reprised his Opera Man character and reminded us all what political comedy used to...
Ukraine Says Clean Russian Oil Starts Flowing from Belarus
Pipeline operator Ukrtransnafta said on Monday that clean Russian oil had started flowing from Belarus towards Ukraine and it was ready to resume oil exports to the European Union following a transit hiatus over contaminated crude. Flows through the Druzhba pipeline were suspended in late April because tainted crude had entered the system,...
Facebook Removes More Pages, Accounts Linked To ‘Inauthentic’ Russian Operators
Facebook said it has removed more pages and accounts that are believed to have originated in Russia and were involved in “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Dan Crenshaw issues warning to President Donald Trump about Russia during appearance on ‘The View’
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) appeared on Monday’s broadcast of “The View,” and offered up a rebuke of President Donald Trump for sounding like he is emulating Russian President Vladimir Putin. Crenshaw appeared on the popular daytime show for the first time since winning in the 2018 midterm elections. What did he say? Crenshaw...
U.S. Ambassador To Ukraine, Openly Criticized By Top Ukrainian Prosecutor, Departing Early
The U.S. ambassador to Ukraine is departing her position by the middle of May, two months ahead of schedule, according to four people familiar with the decision. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Industry Observers: Sukhoi Superjet Crash No Surprise
KIEV, Ukraine—An Aeroflot-operated Sukhoi Superjet 100 regional passenger jet crashed and burned in a “hard landing” at Moscow’s Sheremyetevo airport on Sunday, killing 41 of the 78 passengers on board. Flight 1492 took off on schedule for a two-hour trip to the northern port city of Murmansk, but returned only a few minutes...
Zelensky, the Post-Soviet Man
In the early 2000s I arrived at graduate film school in Moscow thinking I would be surrounded by brooding lovers of avant garde Soviet cinema, devotees of the evasive spiritual allegories of Tarkovsky or the high-art agitprop of Sergey Eisenstein. To my surprise, most of my mature co-students—many of whom were from outside Moscow, as well as from...
