Section: US & Canada
The Best (and Worst) Laid Plans
The United States has been pursuing an audacious project to fashion a global system according to its specifications and under its tutelage since the Cold War’s end. For a quarter of a century, the paramount goal of all its foreign relations has been the fostering of a system whose architectural design features the following: a neo-liberal...
Freed Ukrainian pilot Savchenko sworn in as lawmaker
Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, who spent two years in Russian custody before she was released last week, was sworn in as a lawmaker in the national parliament on Tuesday. …read more Source: CTV...
Savchenko Tells Parliament No Life Is More Important Than Ukraine
Nadia Savchenko, the Ukrainian military aviator who spent almost two years in Russian custody before she returned home last week, has taken her seat as a member of parliament. She became a hero to many Ukrainians during her detention and was elected in absentia in 2014. She was pardoned last week by Russian President Vladimir Putin as part of a...
Three Missing After Fire At Huge Ukrainian Landfill
A search was under way for three rescue workers who disappeared after a massive mound of garbage collapsed during a blaze at a landfill near Lviv, in western Ukraine. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia highlights ties with China ahead of Putin’s trip
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister says President Vladimir Putin’s planned trip to China will give powerful new impulse to ties between the two nations. Speaking Tuesday at a Moscow conference, Sergey Lavrov described expanding ties with China as Russia’s top foreign policy priority. Lavrov said the two nations share...
EU court adviser: Sanctions on Russian firms legally valid
LUXEMBOURG (AP) — A senior adviser to the European Court of Justice says European Union economic sanctions imposed on Russian companies are valid in the main under the EU’s common security and defense policy. Advocate General Melchior Wathelet issued the opinion Tuesday in response to a challenge the Russian oil and gas producer Rosneft...
The Morning Vertical, May 31, 2016
Your daily roundup. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The Seven Broken Guardrails of Democracy
A long time ago, more than 20 years in fact, the Wall Street Journal published a powerful, eloquent editorial, simply headlined: “No Guardrails.” In our time, the United States suffers every day of the week because there are now so many marginalized people among us who don’t understand the rules, who don’t think that rules of personal...
Freed pilot Savchenko sworn in as Ukrainian lawmaker
MOSCOW – Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, who spent two years in Russian custody before she was released last week, was sworn in as a lawmaker in the national parliament on Tuesday. …read more Source: USA...
Savchenko Sworn In As Ukrainian Lawmaker
Ukrainian military aviator Nadia Savchenko, who spent nearly two years in Russian captivity before she was released last week, has been sworn in as a lawmaker in parliament. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
