Section: US & Canada
Lithuania Fears Russia Will Attempt to Sway Its Elections
Lithuania’s intelligence agencies fear Russia will interfere in its forthcoming elections, including one in May to find a successor to the staunchly anti-Kremlin president, Dalia Grybauskaite. The Baltic state, ruled from Moscow for much of the 20th century but now a member of both the European Union and NATO, was rattled by Russia’s...
NYT: Broader FARA Probe Linked To Manafort Ukraine Work Is Heating Up
A federal investigation into lobbying done by top firms in D.C. that is connected to the Paul Manafort work in Ukraine is continuing, according to a New York Times report Tuesday, with prosecutors in Manhattan interviewing witnesses about the flow of money that paid for the work. Prosectors’ interest appears to be around the lobbyists who...
Ukraine Opens Treason Probe Against Pro-Russian Politician
Ukrainian authorities say they are investigating allegations that Viktor Medvedchuk, a shadowy Ukrainian political operative with close personal ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, has committed high treason. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Kyiv Court Says U.S.-Born Suprun Can No Longer Head Health Ministry
A court in Kyiv has ruled that U.S.-born Acting Health Minister Ulyana Suprun can no longer head the ministry. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Reports: U.S. Prosecutors Subpoena Records From Trump’s Inauguration Committee
The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times both reported that the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan issued a subpoena seeking information on the committee’s donors and event attendees, ticket details, federal disclosure filings, and other details. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Manhattan Feds Subpoena Trump Inaugural Committee
Federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York sent a wide-ranging subpoena to Trump’s presidential inaugural committee today. An inaugural committee spokesman confirmed the receipt of the subpoena in a statement to TPM. “We have just received a subpoena for documents,” the statement read. “While we are still reviewing the...
Germany Vows to Keep Troops in Lithuania, Invest More in Barracks
Germany will invest a total of 110 million euros until 2021 in improving military bases in Lithuania, its defense minister said on Monday, underlining Berlin’s continued commitment to the defense of its NATO allies in the Baltic region. Germany leads a NATO force of 1,200 troops from 10 countries sent to Lithuania two years ago as part of...
Ukraine Ex-PM Accuses President of Corruption
Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is running for president in next month’s election, accused the incumbent of corruption — charges his office rejected as a lie as the race was heating up. Tymoshenko told The Associated Press in an interview Monday that President Petro Poroshenko has used his position to enrich himself....
AP Interview: Ukraine ex-PM accuses president of corruption
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The Unquiet American
From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s RussiaMichael McFaulHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018, 528 pp., $30 During a press conference at Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport on September 19, 1952, the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, George Kennan, remarked that his isolation in Moscow was worse than what he had endured...
