Section: US & Canada
Russia’s Chief Investigators Equates Crimea Denial to Extremism
One of Russia’s most senior law enforcement officials has said that dismissing the referendum under which Crimea joined Russia should be a crime equal to extremism. Crimea was controversially annexed from the territory of Ukraine in 2014 as well-armed, but unmarked, fighters who appeared to be Russian special operations forces seized...
The Briefing: Savchenko On The Brink
Is a prisoner exchange that could free Nadia Savchenko finally on the horizon? Listen to this week’s Power Vertical Briefing. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The Briefing: Savchenko On The Brink
Is a prisoner exchange that could free Nadia Savchenko finally on the horizon? Listen to this week’s Power Vertical Briefing. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The Morning Vertical, April 18, 2016
Your daily roundup …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The Daily Vertical: Watch What He Does, Not What He Says
The Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that appears Monday through Friday. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Swedes Could Support A ‘Swexit’
Britain is facing the possibility of “Brexit,” The Czech Prime Minister recently fretted about “Czexit,” and Marine le Pen has been gleeful at the level of support for “Frexit.” Now it’s time for a new portmanteau in Europe’s mounting identity crisis; a poll shows there could be support for a “Swexit.” Only 39 percent of Swedes think...
Toward a Global Realignment
Five basic verities regarding the emerging redistribution of global political power and the violent political awakening in the Middle East are signaling the coming of a new global realignment.The first of these verities is that the United States is still the world’s politically, economically, and militarily most powerful entity but, given...
Why a babushka refuses to leave Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone
A Ukrainian grandmother and her sisters refuse to leave Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone. …read more Source: USA...
Chernobyl’s searing legacy still crippling and killing
Thirty years later, 5 million people still live on heavily contaminated lands in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, and hundreds of thousands of people are sick or suffering in different ways. …read more Source: USA...
Chernobyl won’t be radiation-free, if ever, for at least 24,000 years
Thirty years later, 5 million people still live on heavily contaminated lands in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, and hundreds of thousands of people are sick or suffering in different ways. …read more Source: USA...
