Section: US & Canada
Tillerson: Biggest Snag in U.S.-Russia Relations is Ukraine, Not Election Meddling
U.S. ‘badly’ wants to mend fences with Moscow, Secretary of State Tillerson says. …read more Source: Foreign...
Art Of War: Ukraine Explores Donbas Conflict On Screen, In Books
A new film about Ukrainian “cyborg” soldiers who bravely fought for, but ultimately lost, Donetsk airport is the latest in Ukraine’s push to document the ongoing war in art form. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
How Saakashvili And Poroshenko Got Themselves Into This Mess
Being hauled off a rooftop by police may be the most normal thing that’s happened in Ukraine to Mikheil Saakashvili, the combative former Georgian president and Odesa governor. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Tillerson: Sanctions Will Stay Until Russia Withdraws From Ukraine
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said sanctions against Moscow will remain in place until Russia withdraws from Ukraine. Tillerson made the comment in front of his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, at a December 7 meeting in Vienna of foreign ministers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). (Reuters)...
Tillerson: Ukraine 'stands in the way' of closer ties with Russia
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Thursday that Russia’s involvement in Ukraine remained the major barrier to warmer relations between Washington and Moscow.Tillerson, who met with representatives to the Organization for Security and… …read more Source: The...
Tillerson Says the U.S. Will Never Accept Crimea Annexation
The American secretary of state and the Russian foreign minister traded barbs at a security conference in Vienna. …read more Source: The New York...
FBI Says Its Support for Anti-corruption Unit Abides by Ukrainian Law
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is challenging suggestions of illegal conduct in an undercover sting operation targeting allegedly corrupt government officials in Kyiv, which the FBI conducted in concert with the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU). The United States and European Union have provided logistical support and...
A war on ice: Ukraine, four years after Maidan
The Ukraine Crisis marks its four year anniversary this month. The crisis began on the Maidan Square in late November 2013 and escalated throughout December following the decision of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych not to sign the Association Agreement with the EU and to instead move towards a closer economic partnership with Russia. The...
Saakashvili Escapes Custody After Standoff With Police
Ukrainian security forces arrested former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili on suspicion of assisting a criminal organization but he later escaped from custody in Kyiv with help from his supporters. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Is Rapprochement with Russia Still Possible?
U.S.-Russian relations are at one of their lowest points since the end of the Cold War—and there seems to be little appetite for improvement on the part of the Trump administration and Congress. Egged on by anti-Russia hysteria in many parts of the American media, Congress has imposed new sanctions to penalize Moscow over its alleged meddling in...
