Section: US & Canada
Azerbaijani Opposition Journalist Released On Bail In Ukraine
A Ukrainian court has released on bail a self-exiled Azerbaijani opposition journalist, Ukrainian lawmaker Mykola Knyazhytskiy said on his Facebook page. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Azerbaijani Opposition Journalist Released On Bail In Ukraine
A Ukrainian court has released on bail a self-exiled Azerbaijani opposition journalist, Ukrainian lawmaker Mykola Knyazhytskiy said on his Facebook page. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The New-Old Fatalism
Historical inevitability is back in vogue for the first time since the aftermath of the Great Depression. Now as then, a rather crude form of economic determinism is the single engine of this supposed inevitability, and now as then, too, it purports to offer simple and precise answers to a range of complex social and political questions. In its...
Ukraine’s health care system to get comprehensive overhaul
KYIV – Ukraine adopted a crucial legislative health care package on October 19 that is designed to improve the health of its people and remove Europe’s largest country from the list of nations that have the world’s highest death rates. It is the first comprehensive change to the country’s Soviet-era health care system since...
Freed From A Cage, Masha The Bear Tastes The Good Life
A brown bear named Masha has spent most of her life in a cage outside a restaurant in Lviv, Ukraine. But with help from Four Paws, an international animal welfare group, she’s now settling in at a sanctuary where she can stroll, swim, and play. Her rescue was part of a larger campaign to relocate dozens of bears kept illegally by private...
Freed From A Cage, Masha The Bear Tastes The Good Life
A brown bear named Masha has spent most of her life in a cage outside a restaurant in Lviv, Ukraine. But with help from Four Paws, an international animal welfare group, she’s now settling in at a sanctuary where she can stroll, swim, and play. Her rescue was part of a larger campaign to relocate dozens of bears kept illegally by private...
Why deny the Ukrainian Nazi connection?
The Russian Embassy in Ottawa has created quite the controversy with its latest tweets about Nazi monuments in Canada. “There are monumets (sic) to Nazi collaborators in Canada and nobody is doing anything about it,” one of the tweets noted. A monument in Oakville commemorates those who served with the 14th SS Galizien Division (aka 1st...
The Roots of the Dem’s Russia Obsession
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism. Five years ago, Mitt Romney was hammering Barack Obama for being soft on Russia. And Obama was ridiculing him as a Cold War fossil. The Russia exchanges may seem confusing today, but...
Belatedly, Trump admin finishes list of off-limits Russians
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration gave Congress on Thursday a list of Russian officials who may soon become off-limits to anyone who wants to avoid U.S. sanctions, as criticism mounted over the administration’s tardy execution of new penalties on Moscow. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former NATO chief and adviser to Ukraine’s leader,...
Bombing that wounded Ukrainian lawmaker and killed 2 stirs fears of assassination attempts
When a bomb exploded outside a television station in Kiev, the Ukraine capital, lawmaker Ihor Mosiychuk of the nationalist opposition Radical Party was exiting after an interview. Mosiychuk was wounded, and his bodyguard and a pedestrian were killed, police said Thursday. Four others were wounded…. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
