Section: US & Canada
Moldovans electing president for 1st time in 20 years
CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldovans began voting Sunday for a president in an election that could move the former Soviet republic closer to Europe or push it back into Russia’s orbit. It is the first time in 20 years citizens have directly voted for their president in a country where many are angry about high-level corruption. Both the...
Ukrainian man renames himself iPhone 7 to win the phone
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian man has officially changed his name to iPhone 7 after an electronics store offered the latest Apple product to the first five people who do that. The 20-year old iPhone Sim (Seven) got the coveted prize Friday. He said he might change it back to his original name, Olexander Turin, when he has children. The price...
An Education and a Pleasure
Anne Applebaum is an expert on world affairs, and in particular on Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. She is the author of several books, including Gulag: A History, which won the Pulitzer prize. And she is a columnist for the Washington Post.Her husband, Radek Sikorski, is a Polish politician, journalist, and writer. He was...
At Least Six Die In Sudden Surge Of Violence In Eastern Ukraine
At least six people died in clashes between government forces and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, officials said on October 28. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Emails show how John Pedesta was apparently hacked
Hillary Clinton at University of Nevada in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) WASHINGTON — New evidence appears to show how hackers earlier this year stole more than 50,000 emails of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, an audacious electronic attack blamed on Russia’s government and one that has resulted in...
Emails show how Clinton campaign chairman was probably hacked
WASHINGTON — New evidence appears to show how hackers earlier this year stole more than 50,000 emails of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, an audacious electronic attack blamed on Russia’s government and one that has resulted in embarrassing political disclosures about Democrats in the final weeks before the U.S. presidential...
‘Hope Is Not Enough’: Ukrainian University Students Prepare for War
KYIV, Ukraine—The young man never told anyone he was going to war. The 20-year-old student at Kyiv’s Taras Shevchenko National University slipped away in June 2014 to join a civilian paramilitary group fighting in eastern Ukraine. The young man, whose name was Sviatoslav Horbenko, was a star pupil at the university’s Institute of...
Top Vladimir Putin Aide Hacked
A Ukrainian group claims it hacked the email account of one of Vladimir Putin’s top aides, releasing more than 1 gigabyte of emails. A trove of emails from Vladislav Surkov show that Russia was likely involved in the separatist movement in Ukraine, leading to the Russian takeover of the Crimea region in 2014. “This is a serious hack,” said...
Belarusian Court Orders House Arrest For Blogger Critical Of Russia
A Minsk court has sentenced a Belarusian blogger to nearly two years of house arrest after finding him guilty of “inciting hatred” on his blog, which was critical of Russian policy toward Belarus and Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukrainian Man Renames Himself iPhone 7 to Win the Phone
KIEV, Ukraine—A Ukrainian man has officially changed his name to iPhone 7 after an electronics store offered the latest Apple product to the first five people who do that. The 20-year old iPhone Sim (Seven) got the coveted prize Friday. He said he might change it back to his original name, Olexander Turin, when he has children. The price of phone...
