Section: US & Canada
Crimean Tatar Leader Tells Court He’s ‘Only A Citizen Of Ukraine’
A Russian prosecutor in Crimea has recommended a suspended sentence for Ilmi Umerov, a Crimean Tatar leader who has criticized Russia’s seizure of the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Manafort offered to give Russian billionaire ‘private briefings’ on 2016 campaign
By Tom Hamburger, Rosalind S. Helderman, Carol D. Leonnig and Adam Entous | Washington Post Less than two weeks before Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, his campaign chairman offered to provide briefings on the race to a Russian billionaire closely aligned with the Kremlin, according to people familiar with the...
Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Doctrine Makes No Sense
In the lead-up to President Donald Trump’s maiden speech before the United Nations General Assembly, there were whispers that we would see a new Trump. After weeks of being schooled by Chief of Staff John Kelly, the White House’s own Henry Higgins, our nativist president would renew America’s commitment to upholding the world...
Manafort used Trump email to contact Ukrainian operative: report
Former Trump campaign head Paul Manafort used his official Trump campaign email to contact a Ukrainian political operative, … …read more Source: The...
While chairing Trump campaign, Manafort tried to set up private briefings for a Russian billionaire
Investigators are scrutinizing Paul Manafort’s emails. While working unpaid for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, Paul Manafort mused about how he could use his new prominence to get financially “whole,” and offered to give private political briefings to a Russian billionaire who had recently sued him. That’s according to...
Do Russia’s war games have a darker purpose?
JUDY WOODRUFF: This week, Russia has been conducting a large-scale military exercise within the territory of one of its neighbors, Belarus, a former Soviet republic. Russian units are also war-gaming near the borders of three Baltic NATO member states which were also once part of the Soviet Union. Moscow says that this is a defensive exercise,...
What I Learned About War From the Parents Who Lost Their Son
ZAPORIZHIA, Ukraine—The last time Marina Kasyanenko saw her son, Daniel, she begged him not to return to war. “It was hard for him,” she later says of her son, a 19-year-old Ukrainian soldier. “I didn’t want him to go to war. But he was determined—he had to be the one to go.” It was July 2015, and Daniel had gone home to his parents’...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko Rejects Russia’s ‘Hybrid’ Peacekeeping Offer
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko dismissed a Russian proposal to deploy U.N. peacekeepers in eastern Ukraine as an effort to legalize its proxies and freeze the conflict. Relations between Kyiv and Moscow have never been worse since Russia annexed Crimea more than three years ago and Russian-backed separatist fighters subsequently took up...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko Rejects Russia’s ‘Hybrid’ Peacekeeping Offer
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko dismissed a Russian proposal to deploy U.N. peacekeepers in eastern Ukraine as an effort to legalize its proxies and freeze the conflict. Relations between Kyiv and Moscow have never been worse since Russia annexed Crimea more than three years ago and Russian-backed separatist fighters subsequently took up...
European Union Sets Conditions For More Aid To Ukraine
A top European Union finance official said Kyiv needs to do more in fighting corruption and to pass pension and land reforms as conditions for receiving more financial aid from Brussels. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
