Section: US & Canada
Kyiv Says Russian Ship Rams Ukrainian Navy Tugboat Off Crimea
Ukraine says a Russian coast guard vessel has rammed one of its navy tugboats off the Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula in “openly aggressive actions,” resulting in damage to the ship. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Marks Holodomor Anniversary, U.S. Blasts Russia’s ‘Ongoing Aggression’
Ukraine has marked the 85th anniversary of the Stalin-era famine, known as the Holodomor, in which millions of people died of starvation. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
New documentary series explores centuries of Russian Jewish life
A scene from the new three-part documentary series about Russian Jewish history. (Courtesy of Studio Namdeni) This story is sponsored by Genesis Philanthropy Group. In 1894, a Jewish military officer in France, Alfred Dreyfus, was sentenced to life imprisonment for treason for allegedly passing state secrets to the enemy. When evidence came to...
Kyiv Archivist Discovers Ersatz Bread Samples From Ukraine’s 1932-33 Famine
Ersatz bread from Ukraine’s 1932-33 famine was preserved for decades as criminal “evidence” against a church choir conductor who saved the scraps to tell future generations of the “terrible hunger.” …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia Undermines Freedom Of Expression ‘Both Domestically And Abroad,’ U.S. Says
Russia is working to subvert free speech both at home and abroad, and is stepping up pressure on its independent media, the United States has warned at a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Broken Faith: Ukrainian Church Fights For Independence From Moscow
A stark decision by one church in eastern Ukraine sheds light on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s struggle to emerge from Russia’s shadow. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russian Minority Party Wins Latvian Vote; Populists Surge
An opposition party favored by Latvia’s large ethnic Russian minority has won the Baltic nation’s parliamentary election, but it’s expected to face difficulties forming a ruling coalition after a vote that saw new populist parties surge and government parties falter. Voters in Latvia, a member of the European Union and NATO,...
Trump Refugee Policy Leaves Thousands Stranded Outside US
WASHINGTON (AP) — Death threats drove Hadi Mohammed out of Iraq and to a small apartment in Nebraska, where he and his two young sons managed to settle as refugees. But the danger hasn’t been enough to allow his wife to join them. Mohammed, who worked as a security guard for the U.S. military in Baghdad, says he was initially told his wife...
Chechen Fighter Gives Up Gun For Shepherd’s Crook In Belarus
For one Chechen mercenary and his family, Belarus was supposed to be the springboard to a better life in the West. But the former soldier of fortune has settled in, and now wields nothing more dangerous than a cattle-herding crook. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Was Trump Alone Employing the Tools of Cyber Warfare?
Here’s a question I’d like your help with. Some questions are so sprawling and broad there’s no better way to get started than to canvass TPM Readers. So here goes. One of Trump supporters’ zanier pushbacks has been this argument: In 2008 when Barack Obama was way ahead of the curve using the Internet to run a political...
