Section: US & Canada
Russia Isn’t Going Away in Ukraine
Lyle J. Goldstein Security, Europe The developing escalation spiral needs to be halted before it ends in total catastrophe. The North Korea situation seems to bring U.S. national security “back to the future,” inviting Americans to seriously contemplate the prospect of nuclear war for the first time in decades. That is regrettable, and this...
Riot Police Clash With Protesters In Kyiv
Ukrainian riot police clashed with protesters in Kyiv who marked the fourth anniversary of the crackdown on the pro-European Maidan movement. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Deadly Grenade Blasts Rock Ukrainian Court
The father of a murder victim detonated two hand grenades in a Ukrainian courtroom, killing himself and a defendant. Ten people were also injured and loaded into ambulances after the November 30 explosions in the eastern Ukrainian town of Nikopol. The defendants were accused of killing the man’s son with an automatic weapon in 2016....
U.S. Diplomat Says Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Probably Won’t Be Built
A U.S. diplomat has dismissed the idea that the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline will ever be built. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
U.S. Diplomat Says Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Probably Won’t Be Built
A U.S. diplomat has dismissed the idea that the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline will ever be built. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Says One Soldier Killed, Two Wounded Amid Shelling In East
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry says one Ukrainian soldier was killed and two were wounded in the previous 24 hours as Russia-backed separatists shelled government positions in the eastern Luhansk and Donetsk regions. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Chronicler of Evil
Anne Applebaum has written a new book, Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine. It is about the “terror-famine” of 1932–34. She has also written Gulag: A History and Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956. As you can see, she does not pick the cheeriest of subjects. But she picks important ones, and she is utterly authoritative...
Report: Turkey Swapped Two Alleged Russian Spies For Crimean Tartar Leaders
Turkish broadcaster Haberturk reports that Turkey has extradited two Russians accused of espionage in exchange for the release of two Crimean Tatar leaders jailed in Russia-occupied Crimea. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Congressional Radio-TV Gallery Pulls RT’s Accreditation After Network Registered as Foreign Agent
The Congressional Radio and TV Correspondents’ gallery announced Wednesday that it had voted to withdraw the news credentials for the Russian government-funded RT television network. Craig Caplan, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Congressional Radio and Television Correspondents’ Galleries, wrote in a letter that the...
Poroshenko Signs Law Declaring December 25 Public Holiday
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a law declaring December 25 a public holiday. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
