Section: US & Canada
Ukraine Moves To Bar Election Monitors From ‘Aggressor State’ Russia
Ukrainian lawmakers have voted to ban Russian citizens from serving as election monitors in the country. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Google Censors Search Results After Russian Government Threat, Reports Say
Google has begun censoring websites blacklisted by the Russian government after Russia’s communications watchdog threatened to block the search-engine giant for not following its increasingly stringent rules, the Russian daily Vedomosti reported. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
EU To Call For Ukraine Support Ahead Of Elections, In Document Seen By RFE/RL
Eighteen European Union member states have called on the bloc to be “ready to act” in support of Ukraine in case Russian tries to undermine the country’s presidential and parliamentary elections later this year, according to a document seen by RFE/RL. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine MPs Bar Russians From Observing Elections
Ukraine’s parliament has barred Russian citizens from serving as election monitors during an upcoming presidential election. The Supreme Rada voted to exclude Russians from international observers’ missions that will be monitoring the voting in Ukraine next month. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe submitted a...
In Ukraine, comedian who plays president on TV leads real race
In a popular TV series in Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy plays a high school teacher propelled into the presidency after a video of him blasting official corruption goes viral. In reality, he is now the leading candidate for the country’s upcoming presidential election. …read more Source: Christian Science...
Ukrainian lawmakers bar Russians from observing election
Ukraine’s parliament has barred Russian citizens from serving as election monitors during an upcoming presidential election. The Supreme Rada voted to exclude Russians from international observers’ missions that will be … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Ukrainian lawmakers bar Russians from observing election
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukraine’s parliament has barred Russian citizens from serving as election monitors during an upcoming presidential election. The Supreme Rada voted to exclude Russians from international observers’ missions that will be monitoring the voting in Ukraine next month. The Organization for Security and...
After Slip In Polls, Tymoshenko Goes Low In Ukraine Campaigning
Presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko claimed this week without evidence that Ukraine’s American-born acting health minister was sent to “experiment” on Ukrainians and that President Poroshenko was bribing prospective voters. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Amends Constitution to Cement EU, NATO Course
Ukraine on Thursday adopted “historic” changes to its constitution, spelling out the ex-Soviet country’s aspirations to join the EU and NATO two months before a crucial presidential vote. In a final third reading in parliament, a total of 334 lawmakers approved the amendments to the country’s basic law, with 35 voting...
How Russia Exported Kleptocracy to America
For two years, in the early 1990s, Richard Palmer served as the CIA station chief in the United States’ Moscow embassy. The events unfolding around him—the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the rise of Russia—were so chaotic, so traumatic and exhilarating, that they mostly eluded clearheaded analysis. But from all the intelligence that...
