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Thousands attend gay pride march in Ukraine’s capital
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Thousands of people have attended a gay pride parade in the Ukrainian capital amid tight security. Much of downtown Kiev was cordoned off and about 5,000 police officers were on duty for Sunday’s event, which has traditionally been a focal point for attacks by ultranationalists. …read more Source: San Francisco...
Thousands attend gay pride march in Ukraine’s capital
Thousands of people have attended a gay pride parade in the Ukrainian capital amid tight security. Much of downtown Kiev was cordoned off and about 5,000 police officers were on … Click to Continue » …read more Source: Miami...
Thousands attend gay pride march in Ukraine’s capital
Thousands of people have attended a gay pride parade in the Ukrainian capital amid tight security. Much of downtown Kiev was cordoned off and about 5,000 police officers were on … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The News...
Thousands attend gay pride march in Ukraine’s capital
Thousands of people have attended a gay pride parade in the Ukrainian capital amid tight security. Much of downtown Kiev was cordoned off and about 5,000 police officers were on … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Some 2,500 Attend Gay-Pride March In Kyiv Amid Massive Security Presence
Thousands of gay-rights activists marched in a pride rally in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, on June 18 amid a massive police presence. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Trump’s silence on Russian hacking hands Democrats new weapon
Democrats are uniting behind a simple message about Russian hacking during the 2016 election: Donald Trump doesn’t care.Even as the president lashes out at the series of Russia-related probes besieging his administration, Democrats say Trump has yet to express public concern about the underlying issue with striking implications for...
Oliver Stone’s Putin puzzle: An evil genius who made history, or a shrewd, small-minded nonentity?
Vladimir Putin in “The Putin Interviews” (Credit: Courtesy Of Showtime/Komandir) Oliver Stone seems to have two goals in mind in his four-part documentary “The Putin Interviews,” which premiered over the past week on Showtime. They are distinct but closely connected; one of them is subtle and complicated, while the other is a great...
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl Nearly Outlived the Europe He Created
Before his death on Friday at the age of 87, Helmut Kohl, the former Chancellor of Germany, spent several years wondering whether he would outlive the Europe he had helped to build. And, in some ways, he did. The idea of an “ever closer union” of European states was enshrined in the continent’s politics during Kohl’s tenure, which...
Children at Risk of Disease in Eastern Ukraine as Fighting Threatens Safe Water Supply
The UN Children’s Fund warns three-quarters of a million children in Eastern Ukraine are at risk of water-borne diseases as fighting threatens to cut off their safe water supply. The United Nations estimates around 10,000 people have been killed and more than 23,500 injured since fighting in Eastern Ukraine erupted between the government...
US Concerned About Baltic Incidents in Upcoming Russian War Games
The United States is concerned about possible Russian incursions along NATO’s Baltic borders during large Russian military exercises in September and will send more troops to the area, the commander of U.S. troops in Europe said on Friday. Russia has denied Western concerns that its Zapad 2017 war games will threaten stability in eastern...
