Section: US & Canada
Studying Stalin
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941Stephen KotkinPenguin Press, 2017, 1184pp., $40 Richard Aldous: Hello, and welcome. My guest this week on The American Interest Podcast is Stephen Kotkin, professor of history at Princeton and author of a new book, Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941. Stephen, welcome to the show.Stephen Kotkin: Thank you...
Ukrainian Lawmaker To Propose Cutting Diplomatic Ties With Russia
A lawmaker from Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s party has told RFE/RL he plans to propose legislation that would sever diplomatic relations with Russia. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Bodyguards Attack Journalists Covering Ukrainian Politician
Bodyguards violently attacked journalists covering the arrival in Kyiv of a Ukrainian politician with close personal ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
UN Warns Of Humanitarian Impact Of Increased Hostilities In Eastern Ukraine
The United Nations has raised “extreme” concern that an escalation of fighting near water infrastructures in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk could lead to a deadly chlorine gas disaster. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Israel’s president cheers a united Spain. Or did he?
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin meeting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy Brey of Spain, Nov. 6, 2017. (Haim Zach/Israeli Government Press Office) (JTA) — Israeli President Reuven Rivlin may court controversy back home, but in Madrid he is almost universally loved right now. That’s because during his visit to Spain this week, Rivlin – a Likud...
Ukraine’s High-Profile Killings
For more than a year, Ukraine has been plagued by a wave of high-profile killings. Most of the cases remain unsolved. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service, Current Time TV) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Gag order issued in Manafort-Gates Russia investigation
By Spencer S. Hsu | Washington Post WASHINGTON – The federal judge overseeing the criminal trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and business partner Rick Gates imposed a gag order Wednesday in the case ordering all parties, including potential witnesses, not to make statements that might prejudice jurors. U.S. District Judge Amy...
Stalin’s Ukrainian Genocide
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, On the 85th anniversary of the “Holodomor,” TWS contributor Andrew Stuttaford talks with host Eric Felten about the Soviet Union’s murder, by starvation, of 4 million Ukrainians. The Daily Standard is sponsored by DonorsTrust. on WeeklyStandard.com …read more Source: The Weekly...
Russia investigators probe 2016 GOP platform fight
U.S. investigators are focusing on an enduring mystery of the 2016 election: whether Trump campaign officials made the Republican Party platform more friendly to Russia as part of some broader effort to collude with the Kremlin, according to congressional records and people familiar with the probes.Congressional investigators have interviewed...
A century after the revolution, Russians build monuments to the czars
A Russian lawmaker speaking on TV recently described something amazing happening to a statue of the last Russian emperor in Crimea: The stone torso had begun to weep. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
