Section: US & Canada
EU Leaders Prepare To Meet Eastern Neighbors
European Union leaders are set to hold a meeting aimed at deepening ties with six of the EU’s eastern neighbors. The November 24 Eastern Partnership Summit in Brussels is designed to bolster trade and promote European values in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine. The EU is expected to sign a partnership deal...
Veteran Crimean Tatar Activist Dies As Associates Detained By Russia
Russian security officers detained several Crimean Tatar activists in Crimea on November 23, a move that comes amid continuing pressure on a group that has broadly opposed Moscow’s 2014 seizure of the Ukrainian peninsula. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
What In The World Is Going On In The Russia-Backed Separatist Luhansk ‘Republic’?
Heavily armed men on armored vehicles are patrolling the streets of a war-wracked eastern Ukrainian city — but this time it’s different. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
What In The World Is Going On In The Russia-Backed Separatist Luhansk ‘Republic’?
Heavily armed men on armored vehicles are patrolling the streets of a war-wracked eastern Ukrainian city — but this time it’s different. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine’s Bolshevik Shadow
When George Kennan was asked in 1967 by Foreign Affairs to reflect on the accomplishments and failures of Soviet rule at the 50-year mark, he stated that without a doubt, the October Revolution that had brought the Bolsheviks to power in Russia had altered world history and was the single most consequential event of the 20th century. Indeed, at...
Ukraine’s Bolshevik Shadow
When George Kennan was asked in 1967 by Foreign Affairs to reflect on the accomplishments and failures of Soviet rule at the 50-year mark, he stated that without a doubt, the October Revolution that had brought the Bolsheviks to power in Russia had altered world history and was the single most consequential event of the 20th century. Indeed, at...
The Diplomat vs. the Lobbyist
One would think Paul Manafort’s current legal troubles would serve as a cautionary tale for Washington lobbyists about the perils of seeking to burnish the reputations of authoritarian political leaders from other lands. And yet these lobbyists persist, even to the point of working for sketchy Ukrainian politico-oligarchic interests with...
Ukrainian Separatist Chief Accuses Another of Plotting Coup
A separatist leader in Ukraine’s east on Thursday accused a former official of trying to unseat him as a showdown between the two entered its third day. Breaking almost a week of silence, Igor Plotnitsky, leader of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic, claimed that former Interior Minister Igor Kornet “tried to seize...
News of the Day From Around the World, Nov. 22
1 Ukraine standoff: Dozens of armed men occupied the center of the city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, blocking the entrances to several government buildings during a standoff between two top officials in the Russian-backed separatist enclave. The menacing deadlock in the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic began on Monday,...
Rival Factions Battle for Control in Eastern Ukraine
With armored vehicles on streets, civilians fled a showdown between rival Moscow-backed political leaders in the breakaway Luhansk region. …read more Source: The New York...
