Section: US & Canada
New Names New US Commander in Europe Amid NATO Worries, Tensions
The United States is installing new military leadership in Europe at a moment of heightened worries about Russian aggression, doubts about the future of arms control and rising tensions among NATO allies. These pressures are reflected in stepped-up U.S. military maneuvers in Europe, including the unusual simultaneous deployment last week of two...
Going Toe-to-Toe With Ukraine’s Separatist Hackers
The proliferation of cyberespionage tools empower even small breakaway regions to run digital intelligence operations. …read more Source: Foreign...
Roger Stone Could Have the Answers
On the eve of his first major appearance since the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s final report, Roger Stone assured me that he would be “appropriately attired” for his day in court.The veteran Republican operative and longtime confidante of Donald Trump—who boasts a Richard Nixon back tattoo and whose sartorial choices are...
Putin Signs Order Widening Eligibility For Russian Passports
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to fast-track passports and citizenship for people in Ukraine and Soviet-era deportees. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Lies Are Fueling the Rise of Anti-Semitism
A 19-year-old man on Saturday opened fire in a synagogue filled with hundreds of Jews celebrating the final hours of Passover. His hate-fueled act ended the life of Lori Gilbert Kaye—a woman dearly loved by her family and community. The bullets severed the finger of Rabbi Goldstein and wounded several others. The trauma, anguish, and terror will...
Shipyard Opera, Choreographed Cranes Enliven Ukrainian Port
The Ukrainian port of Mariupol has hosted an arts festival, [Startup] Gogolfest, meant to breathe new life into a city shaken by conflict in recent years. The festival’s highlight was a new opera performed in the shipyards, with water and machinery incorporated into the performance. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Werner Herzog’s Ode to Gorbachev
Werner Herzog is in love. His eyes glimmer, his smile is unforced, and his much-parodied Teutonic drone cannot conceal his affection for his subject, the ailing 87-year-old man who once ruled the largest country on earth and then presided over its dissolution. In Mikhail Gorbachev, Herzog has found a secular saint, a man who was a titan in an age...
Report Explores Who Owns Huawei
KIEV, Ukraine—Two western academics have examined the issue of Huawei’s true ownership in an unclassified analysis paper “Who Owns Huawei,” which was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The report comes as an increasing number of nations are wrestling with the issue of whether or not they should permit Huawei to participate...
Georgian President: Decadelong Russian Military Occupation a Failure
Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili says Russia’s decadelong military occupation of South Ossetia and Abkhazia has failed to break the national will to maintain sovereignty and achieve European Union and NATO accession. “Despite the occupied territories and despite the … constant everyday pressure with hostage-taking, with...
Putin Suddenly Sacks Russian Envoy to Belarus Amid Oil Row
Russian President Vladimir Putin suddenly sacked Moscow’s ambassador to Belarus, Mikhail Babich, the Kremlin said on Tuesday, amid a row over contaminated oil and a wider political discord between the ex-Soviet countries. Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko has generally been more closely aligned with Moscow than any other ex-Soviet...
