Section: US & Canada
OSCE Monitoring Drone Shot Down Over Eastern Ukraine
A surveillance drone operated by monitors for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in eastern Ukraine has been shot down near the government-controlled village of Popasna in the Luhansk region. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine’s Leap of Faith Is a Step Toward Ditching Russian Influence
KYIV, Ukraine—Orthodox Christians celebrated Christmas on Jan. 7, according to the Julian calendar. This year’s holiday was the first for Ukraine’s newly unified, national Orthodox Church, independent from Russian control for the first time since the 17th century. Monday’s milestone marked a major step forward in Ukraine’s...
Foreign Affairs Committee Ditches Terrorism Subcommittee in Favor of Investigating Trump
House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Eliot Engel (D., N.Y.) announced he will eliminate the terrorism subcommittee in favor a new subcommittee dedicated to investigating President Donald Trump. “We just thought, if we’re going to do something relevant in this era where Congress is going to reassert itself, where there are so many...
Russian Court To Consider Prolonging Pretrial Detention Of Ukrainian Sailors
A court in Moscow says it will consider a request by the Russian Investigative Committee to prolong the pretrial detention of 24 Ukrainian sailors detained by Russian forces who attacked three Ukrainian navy vessels in the Black Sea in November. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The Vices of Nationalism
One common narrative about the West’s ongoing predicament is that the current revival of nationalism is a foreseeable and potentially helpful corrective to liberalism’s overreach. Pushing the Euro, gay marriage, permissive immigration policies, and the climate change agenda down the throats of reluctant electorates was bound to...
Germany Says U.S. Sanctions Against Gas Pipeline ‘Not The Way To Go’
U.S. sanctions against the Moscow-backed Nord Stream 2 natural-gas pipeline project would be the wrong way to solve a dispute over energy supply, according to German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The Last Link Of Luhansk
Crossing through the only corridor that remains open for people in Ukraine’s Luhansk region to navigate the so-called line of contact. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Jeremy Corbyn Has a Sordid Past. Now, He’s Closer Than Ever to Leading Britain.
The Democratic Party is seriously flirting with socialism. It’s frightening on so many levels. If you want an idea why, take a look at my country, Britain. We tried “real socialism” two generations ago, and it was a disaster. Yet it has had a Lazarus-like revival in the U.K., inspiring the Democrats in America. Thanks to the Brexit crisis,...
Ukraine FM: Russia will do everything to break up
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) – The Ukrainian foreign minister says Russia “will be doing everything to break up Ukraine, somehow to divide Ukraine further.” Pavlo Klimkin says Moscow doesn’t want “to have a free and democratic Ukraine as such” and his country needs “military, political and economic support to...
The Quick Read on the Top Geopolitical Risks of 2019
What Happened This Week: It’s a new year which means Eurasia Group, the risk consultancy I founded and run, has just released our annual look ahead at the top 10 geopolitical risks facing the world in 2019. Buckle up. Why It Matters: Because politics matter now more than ever, both to international markets and to the way people live their...
