Section: US & Canada
The Trouble With Netflix’s New Cold War Thriller
Earlier this year, the first issue of Vogue Poland appeared on newsstands. The Polish imprint of the fashion magazine joined Vogue Russia (launched in 1998) and Vogue Ukraine (2013) as the brand’s newest incursion into the East European market (Vogue Czech Republic and Slovakia later debuted in August). The March 2018 cover depicted Polish...
Neve: Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70 – Seven decades of betrayal, but also of hope
Seventy years ago, world leaders committed to what was at once both an urgent set of promises and a compelling dream when the newly formed United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Today, International Human Rights Day, as we mark that platinum anniversary, in many ways the Universal Declaration has never had more meaning....
Russia Dispatching Blackjack Bombers to Venezuela
Russia is deploying nuclear-capable Tu-160 Blackjack bombers to Venezuela this week as part of an increasingly provocative pattern of bomber training flights, according to American defense officials. At least two Blackjacks will fly from a strategic forces air base in Russia to Venezuela as part of a series of training exercises that will include...
Russia building up forces near Crimea amid tensions with Ukraine, satellite photos show
Two weeks after Russia fired on and seized three Ukrainian vessels in the contested Kerch Strait, satellite images obtained exclusively by Fox News on Sunday show that additional forces may be headed to the region. …read more Source: FOX...
The Mysterious Return of Manafort’s ‘Russian Brain’
In the Collected Works of Robert Mueller, there are Russian names that come and go. But there’s only one of these figures who provides a recurring presence in this oeuvre. He is a diminutive man, whom Mueller has called an “asset” of Russian intelligence. His presence is either the sort of distracting irrelevance that Alfred Hitchcock...
Who is Konstantin Kilimnik, the suspected former Russian spy who worked closely with Paul Manafort?
Konstantin Kilimnik has a history of connecting former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to contacts in Russia and Ukraine. …read more Source: Global...
Russian Rights Activist Alexeyeva Dies at 91
Lyudmila Alexeyeva, a human rights pioneer and dissident who challenged the Soviet and Russian regimes for decades, demanding that they free political prisoners and establish democratic rights, died Saturday in a Moscow hospital, a Russian official said. She was 91. “She remained a human rights activist to the very end,” said Mikhail...
West must take tougher stand against Russia, Ukraine president tells FOX News
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko called on Western democratic nations to take a tougher stand against Russia amid escalating tensions between the two regional rivals. …read more Source: FOX...
U.S. Prosecutors Alleged Former Top Trump Associates Lied Over Russia Contacts
U.S. prosecutors have laid out in court details of what they say are lies by former top associates of President Donald Trump regarding their interactions with Russian contacts, charges that will likely lead to long prison terms for the two men. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Here are the 5 things Paul Manafort has been lying to Robert Mueller about
Mueller laid out the case in a new court filing — and said his team could back it up with evidence, if need be. When Special Counsel Robert Mueller declared that President Donald Trump’s former Campaign Chair Paul Manafort was in breach of his plea deal, observers were immediately asking: What did he lie about?Now we know. In a new court...
