Section: US & Canada
Protesters In Kyiv Demand Thorough Investigation Into Death Of Noted Activist
Dozens of protesters have picketed Ukraine’s Interior Ministry, demanding a thorough investigation of the death of a well-known volunteer, Oleksiy Kuchapin. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The Problem With Putinology
By most accounts, the Cold War came to end in 1991. Soviet defeat equaled the victory of the West. The Washington consensus set the economic terms. Democracies were proliferating after 1991, and on the horizon a rules-based liberal international order was more and more clearly emerging, a global analogue to the ascendant European Union with...
Ukraine: Black Box Transcript Confirms Illegal Interference With Jet Downed in Iran in Jan
KYIV (Reuters) – The transcript from the black boxes from a Ukrainian jet accidentally shot down by Iran on Jan. 8 confirm the fact of illegal… …read more Source:: U.S....
International Team Completes Analysis of Ukrainian Jet Shot Down by Iran
An international team has completed a preliminary investigative analysis of the black boxes from a Ukrainian passenger jetliner accidentally shot down by Iran in January, Canada’s Transportation Safety Board said Thursday.”The work in Paris is finished, but the investigation is far from over. There are still many key questions that...
Washington to Putin: Don’t ‘Rewrite History’
The United States—joined by Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia—issued a statement condemning Russian president Vladimir Putin’s attempt to “rewrite history” by asserting that the Soviet takeover of the Baltic states was consensual, Reuters reported Thursday. “We stand firmly against any attempts by Russia to rewrite history in...
Don’t Leave the Balkans to Europe
Transatlantic relations, on fragile footing for the better part of the last three and a half years, have been fracturing further across a region that has in the recent past been a rare area of policy consensus. The Western Balkans, always a difficult portfolio, had seen a rare breakthrough agreement in 2018, when Greece and North Macedonia signed...
Should the West Be Worried About Belarus?
There is a joke in which a Russian, a Ukrainian, and a Belarusian enter a train compartment and sit down simultaneously. The Russian and Ukrainian immediately jump up with shouts of pain. After a stream of invective, the Russian exclaims, “Someone put a tack on my seat! I’m a Russian citizen, damn it, there’s gonna be hell to pay!”...
RFE/RL Investigation Identifies Several Who Served On Deadly Separatist Military Tribunals In Eastern Ukraine
RFE/RL has determined the identities of seven men who carried out several executions of those they “convicted” in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Pompeo: 1940 Soviet occupation of Baltics ‘a criminal act’
HELSINKI (AP) – The top U.S. diplomat says the Soviet occupation and annexation of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in 1940 was “a criminal act” and draws parallel with present-day Russia’s military maneuvers in Ukraine and Georgia. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a … …read more Source:: The...
Pompeo: 1940 Soviet occupation of Baltics ‘a criminal act’
The top U.S. diplomat says the Soviet occupation and annexation of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in 1940 was “a criminal act” and draws parallel with present-day Russia’s military maneuvers in Ukraine and Georgia …read more Source:: ABC...
