Section: US & Canada
Crimea Trial Of RFE/RL Contributor Adjourned Until April 18
The trial of Crimean journalist Mykola Semena, an RFE/RL contributor who has been indicted on separatism-related charges by the Russian authorities controlling the Ukrainian peninsula, has been adjourned until April 18. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukrainian defence minister to visit Petawawa – Canada, Ukraine sign agreement
Canada and Ukraine are further strengthening their ties. Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan and Ukrainian Defence Minister Stepan Poltorak have signed what is being called the Canada-Ukraine Defence Cooperation Arrangement. The bilateral arrangement identifies areas of mutual cooperation such as defence policy; defence research, development, and...
Ukrainian defence minister to visit Petawawa – Canada, Ukraine sign agreement
Canada and Ukraine are further strengthening their ties. Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan and Ukrainian Defence Minister Stepan Poltorak have signed what is being called the Canada-Ukraine Defence Cooperation Arrangement. The bilateral arrangement identifies areas of mutual cooperation such as defence policy; defence research, development, and...
Belarus and the Failure of the Russian World
In April 2014, a month after annexing Crimea, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared himself the defender of the Russkiy Mir—a “Russian world” dominated by ethnic Russians and encompassing most of the territory of the former Soviet Union. Observers in Russia and abroad had long interpreted the Kremlin’s interest in Eurasian integration...
Trump loves despots: He couldn’t shake Angela Merkel’s hand, but falls hard for Egypt’s strongman. Sense a pattern?
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Evan Vucci) Whenever I hear someone on the cable gabfests say that President Trump is an isolationist I have to wonder if they’ve ever actually listened to anything the man says. It’s true he claimed to have been against military action in Iraq and Libya, against all evidence to the...
Watchdog report: ‘Breakdown of democracy’ in Poland, Hungary
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — U.S.-based pro-democracy group Freedom House said Tuesday that a “spectacular breakdown of democracy” has been taking place in Poland and Hungary, two countries that stood as models of democratic change after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. The watchdog organization’s report said that Hungary now has the...
Another Donald Trump-Russia contact: Eric Prince met with Russian sources just before inauguration
(Credit: AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File) Two more individuals connected to Donald Trump have been revealed to have connections to Russia. Erik Prince, the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and founder of the private security firm Blackwater (whose project manager once threatened to kill a government investigator), is reported to have...
The Morning Vertical, April 4, 2017
Your daily roundup …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Putin Signs Law Granting Sanctions-Hit Russians Tax Breaks
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that exempts Russians who are under Western sanctions from paying taxes in Russia if they are registered as taxpayers abroad. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
What Trump’s Foreign-Aid Budget Means to the Rest of the World
The Trump administration’s budget proposal for 2018 sent shockwaves across the country, but when it came to one slice of the funding, the international-affairs budget, those waves extended across the globe.The proposed 31 percent cut affects the U.S. bilateral foreign-aid accounts; funding for the United Nations, World Bank, and other...
