Section: US & Canada
Ukrainian lawmaker stripped of immunity on coup charges
MOSCOW (AP) — The Ukrainian parliament on Thursday stripped a celebrated former military pilot and presidential hopeful of her immunity as a lawmaker, sanctioning her arrest on charges of plotting an attack on parliament with grenades and automatic weapons. Nadiya Savchenko was served summons minutes after the parliamentary session, where she...
Putin Won. But Russia Is Losing
Vladimir Putin may have been re-elected president of Russia on March 18, but he’s far from the grand master of geopolitical chess portrayed in the Western media. Whether bragging about Russia’s “invincible” new missile, playing coy over accusations that his hackers play games with foreign elections or that his spies murder opponents...
Ukrainian lawmaker stripped of immunity on coup charges
MOSCOW (AP) — The Ukrainian parliament has stripped a former military pilot who became a national icon after spending time in a Russian jail of her immunity as a lawmaker on charges of plotting a military coup. …read more Source: The Bismarck...
Ukrainian lawmaker stripped of immunity on coup charges
The Ukrainian parliament has stripped a former military pilot who became a national icon after spending time in a Russian jail of her immunity as a lawmaker on charges of … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Ukrainian lawmaker stripped of immunity on coup charges
The Ukrainian parliament has stripped a former military pilot who became a national icon in Ukraine after spending two years in a Russian prison of her immunity as a lawmaker on charges of plotting a military coup …read more Source: ABC...
Ukrainian lawmaker stripped of immunity on coup charges
The Ukrainian parliament has stripped a former military pilot who became a national icon after spending time in a Russian jail of her immunity as a lawmaker on charges of … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The News...
The Morning Vertical, March 18, 2018
Your daily roundup. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
FSB Holds Crimean Tatar Activist For Questioning, Wife Fears Terror Charge
Crimean Tatar activist Nariman Memediminov has been taken in for questioning by Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officers and may face charges of propagating terrorism, his wife says. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Parliament Committee Green-Lights Savchenko Arrest
The Ukrainian parliament’s rules committee has unanimously approved the cancellation of immunity, detainment, and arrest of lawmaker and former Russian captive Nadia Savchenko, who is accused of plotting a “terrorist” attack on the legislature. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Cambridge Analytica boss went from ‘aromatics’ to psyops to Trump’s campaign
Long before the political data firm he oversees, Cambridge Analytica, helped Donald Trump become president, Nigel Oakes tried a very different form of influencing human behavior. It was called “marketing aromatics,” or the use of smells to make consumers spend more money.In the decades since, the Eton-educated British businessman has styled...
