Section: US & Canada
FBI Raids Company Tied To Ukrainian Oligarch Who Pushed Biden Disinfo
FBI and IRS agents in Cleveland and Miami on Tuesday raided the offices of a company tied to a Ukrainian oligarch suspected of pushing dirt on Vice President Joe Biden. Vicki Anderson, a spokesperson for the FBI’s Cleveland office, confirmed the raids of Optima Management to TPM, declining to comment any further because the matter “is still...
Ukrainian police detain man with explosives at Kyiv bank
A man who allegedly threatened to blow up an explosive device at a bank in Ukraine’s capital has been detained by police …read more Source:: ABC...
Ukrainian police detain man with explosives at Kyiv bank
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian police on Monday detained a man who threatened to blow up an explosive device at a bank in the nation’s capital. The man, identified as Sukhrob Karimov, a 32-year-old citizen of the Central Asian nation of Uzbekistan, entered a bank office in Kyiv and said he had explosives in his backpack. He let bank clerks...
Exiled Lukashenka Challenger Said To Leave Moscow For Kyiv
A critic of Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka who last month fled the country along with his children after his and others’ candidacies were rejected for next week’s presidential election has reportedly left Russia for neighboring Ukraine. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Police Kill Man After Hostage-Taking, Official Says
KYIV (Reuters) – A man who had taken a senior police officer hostage a week ago and then escaped was killed by police special forces in central… …read more Source:: U.S....
Dems Subpoena Pompeo In Probe Of Senate GOP Biden-Ukraine Disinfo Campaign
House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) issued a subpoena to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday, demanding reams of documents that the State Department has already provided to Senate Republicans who are seeking damaging information about Vice President Joe Biden. Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA)...
A Reply to President Putin
This year, Americans have been preoccupied with several crises. One is their own public debate about history and public memory, especially involving the Civil War and the legacies of slavery and racism. Meanwhile, though, another large historical debate has been going on, in Europe. It is a debate about the origins and lessons of the most...
Nunes Stays Silent As House Dems Claim Proof He Got Foreign Disinfo On Biden
House Democrats pushed House Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) to say in a closed-door meeting on Wednesday whether he had received Ukraine-based disinformation about Vice President Joe Biden. Nunes declined to respond at all, saying “no” when asked if he would like to respond to the allegation that he has received a...
Ukraine To Seek Extradition Of Alleged Russian Mercenaries Detained In Belarus
Kyiv says it will seek the extradition of 33 alleged contractors from the Russian private military company Vagner being held in Belarus for their alleged participation in a conflict with Russia-backed separatists in Ukraine’s eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk since April 2014. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Reiterates Determination For Justice In Talks With Iran Over Downed Passenger Jet
Ukraine has reiterated its determination to bring Iran to justice for the downing of a Ukrainian airliner shortly after takeoff in Tehran during talks on compensation over the January air disaster that killed 176 people. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
