Section: US & Canada
Putin says Russia won’t enter arms race with NATO
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin says that Russia will respond to NATO’s military buildup near its borders, but will not be drawn into an arms race. Putin said Thursday that NATO underlined its anti-Russian intentions by deploying forces in Poland and the Baltics and building missile defense sites. Russia has described NATO’s...
Armenia Ratifies Joint Air-Defense With Russia
Armenian lawmakers have approved the cabinet’s decision to join Russia’s air-defense system amid protests by the opposition. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
AP PHOTOS: Kiev’s outdoor gym flourishes 50 years on
Every day in summertime, hundreds of people flock to an outdoor gym on an island in the Dnieper river in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. …read more Source: FOX...
AP PHOTOS: Kiev’s outdoor gym flourishes 50 years on
Kuk, a mathematician who worked in a cybernetics research center, says it was easy to obtain materials and factory hands willing to shape the equipment in the 1970s, when Soviet heavy industry was still flourishing. Nearly 50 years on, the gym boasts about 200 hand-made machines, from leg and arm trainers to more sophisticated contraptions. The...
AP PHOTOS: Kiev’s outdoor gym flourishes 50 years on
Every day in summertime, hundreds of people flock to an outdoor gym on an island in the Dnieper river in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
AP PHOTOS: Kiev’s outdoor gym flourishes 50 years on
Every day in summertime, hundreds of people flock to an outdoor gym on an island in the Dnieper river in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The News...
AP PHOTOS: Kiev’s outdoor gym flourishes 50 years on
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Every day in summertime, hundreds of people flock to an outdoor gym on an island in the Dnieper river in the Ukrainian… …read more Source:...
Details of some of the Istanbul airport attack victims
ISTANBUL (AP) — Suicide attackers armed with guns and bombs killed more than 40 people and wounded hundreds at Istanbul’s busy Ataturk Airport late Tuesday, apparently targeting Turkey’s crucial tourism industry. Details are emerging about some of the victims. ___ Caglayan Col, 26, began working at Ataturk International...
Makeshift Shrine In Kyiv To Opera Singer Killed By Sniper
Photos, flowers, and candles were placed on Kyiv’s Independence Square after a famous opera singer was killed by a sniper in eastern Ukraine. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia Is Far From Isolated
Nikolay Pakhomov Economics, Eurasia A recent economic summit shows the world still wants in. In 2014, when the White House started pressuring the chief executives of some of America’s largest companies to skip the event, the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) gained an additional symbolic meaning. After the twentieth SPIEF...
