Section: US & Canada
Saakashvili’s resignation: Start of parliamentary election campaign?
The sudden resignation of the governor of Odesa Oblast, Georgia’s former President Mikheil Saakashvili, roiled the Ukrainian media landscape last week (November 7). Mr. Saakashvili was appointed to head the coastal Black Sea province in May 2015 by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, a long-time personal friend. He attributed his...
Moscow hopes Trump administration will give Russia free hand to suppress Syria and Ukraine
The news of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton conceding the race to Donald Trump was met with spontaneous applause by the Kremlin-controlled State Duma (the lower house of the Russian Parliament) during a plenary session. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the Kremlin-linked flamboyant nationalist politician and leader of the Liberal...
Ukrainian Who Masqueraded As U.S. High School Student Sentenced To Prison
A Ukrainian man who lied about his name and his age while attending high school in the United States has been ordered to spend two months in prison on federal fraud charges. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Remarks by Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.N.
Text of remarks by Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations, Volodymyr Yelchenko, delivered on November 13 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. This month Ukraine and Ukrainians of the whole world commemorate the 83rd anniversary of a most terrible catastrophe, the artificial famine known as [the] Holodomor of 1932-1933. [The] Holodomor is...
Ukraine’s Merchant of Death in S. Sudan
The war profiteers answer to critics who say theyre fueling carnage in the worlds newest country? Somebodys gonna do it. …read more Source: The Daily...
The U.S. Voted Against a U.N. Anti-Nazi Resolution. Here’s Why
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States was one of three countries to vote against a U.N. resolution condemning the glorification of Nazism on Thursday, citing freedom of speech issues and concerns that Russia was using it to carry out political attacks against its neighbors. The resolution entitled “Combating glorification of Nazism, Neo-Nazism...
U.S., Ukraine Vote Against Russian Measure Condemning Nazism At UN
The United States joined Ukraine in voting against a United Nations resolution condemning the glorification of Nazism, citing freedom of speech concerns and saying Russia sponsored the measure as a political attack against Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Obama’s World: Utopian Myth?
Speaking in Greece on his valedictory trip to Europe as president, Barack Obama struck a familiar theme: “we are going to have to guard against a rise in a crude form of nationalism, or ethnic identity, or tribalism that is built around an ‘us’ and a ‘them’ … “[T]he future of humanity and the future of the world is going to be defined...
More Olympic Athletes From Russia, Former Soviet States Lose Medals
Ten more athletes, mostly weightlifters and wrestlers from Russia and former Soviet states, have been stripped of medals they won at the 2008 Beijing Olympics after failing doping retests. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Nigel Farage On The Year Of Political Revolution
Below are the video and transcript of Nigel Farage’s address at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s 2016 Restoration Weekend. The event was held November 10th-13th in Palm Beach, FL. Nigel Farage from DHFC on Vimeo. Nigel Farage: Wow, wow, well, thank you very much indeed, and thank you to David and the Freedom Center, and thank you...
