Section: US & Canada
Putin Says He May Expand Controversial Russian Citizenship Decree To Include All Ukrainians
Russian President Vladimir Putin says his administration is considering a plan to ease the process of granting Russian citizenship to all Ukrainians, not only those in war-torn parts of eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia Says Druzhba Oil Deliveries May Be Restored To Europe In Two Weeks
Russia says it will be able to restore acceptable-quality oil supplies through the key Druzhba pipeline to Europe in two weeks. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
What We Know About Peace
Peace has a golden reputation. Worshippers pray for it. A Norwegian committee awards a celebrated prize to individuals and organizations that it believes promote peace. The central figure of Christianity bears the honorific “the Prince of Peace.” Yet peace on Earth has proven elusive. In the three decades since the end of the Cold War, however,...
Photos of the Week: Unicorn Factory, Bavarian Pilgrims, Miniature Chernobyl
Thanos in the Philippines, an adoptive cat in Crimea, mourning in Sri Lanka, Holy Week in Jerusalem, ANZAC Day in Australia, flooding in Quebec, a light show in Romania, stylish indoor tennis in Barcelona, Kim Jong Un in Russia, an Easter parade in New York City, equestrian vaulting in France, and much more. …read more Source: The...
Russia Is Giving Passports to Separatists in Ukraine. That’s Not Unusual.
Russia’s announcement this week that it intends to issue passports to residents of the breakaway Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk is provocative—Kiev has called it “aggression” and Washington has labeled it “provocative”—but it is hardly novel.Granting passports is, in effect, the equivalent of handing out citizenship, and...
A Ukrainian Town Whose Dreams Died In Chernobyl’s Fallout
When the proposed Chigirinsky Nuclear Power Plant was canceled in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster, the Ukrainian town of Orbita was left to molder away. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
On The Front Line: Shells Continue To Fall In Eastern Ukraine
Four years after the cease-fire signed in Minsk, intermittent shelling continues on the front line between Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed separatists.(Camera: Maryan Kushnir, Markiyan Lyseyko) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Unscripted: The Serious Stakes for Ukraine’s New Leader
By the time Ukraine’s voters cast their ballots in the second round of presidential elections on April 21st, it was all but certain what the outcome would be — change was in the air. Indeed, when the ballots were counted, 73 per cent of voters had voted for a new president. “Chocolate King” oligarch Petro Poroshenko – president since 2014 –...
Lawyer For Ukrainian Oligarch Claims He Planted Seed Of Zelenskiy Presidency
President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy has worked hard to distance himself from one of the country’s wealthiest and most controversial oligarchs, Ihor Kolomoyskiy. But a humble brag by a lawyer working for both men could dent that effort. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The True Story Behind the Rudolf Nureyev Movie The White Crow
When the Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev came to Paris to tour with the Kirov ballet company in 1961, he was “like a wild animal out of a cage,” says Oleg Ivenko, the 26-year-old Ukrainian dancer and actor who plays Nureyev in the new movie The White Crow, out April 26 in the United States. “He got a taste of freedom and another world.” And...
