Section: US & Canada
Lawyer for Russian Soldier Found Dead in Ukraine
Ukrainian authorities say they found the body Friday of a lawyer representing one of two Russian soldiers being tried on terrorism charges. Yuriy Grabovsky was the defense attorney for Aleksander Aleksandrov, who was arrested last May on terrorism charges stemming from the separatist conflict in pro-Moscow eastern Ukraine. Grabovsky’s body...
Lawyer for 2 Russian troops in Ukraine found dead
MOSCOW (AP) — A lawyer for two Russian servicemen on trial in Ukraine has been found dead. …read more Source: CNS...
Ukrainian lawyer defending Russian serviceman found slain
Relations between Ukraine and Russia grew even darker Friday when a Ukrainian lawyer was killed “in a violent way, and finished off with a fiream.” He had been defending a Russian citizen captured in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Jaresko says she’s ready to lead a technocratic government
KYIV – Ukraine’s Minister of Finance Natalie Jaresko on March 22 released a statement declaring her readiness to assemble a team of technocrats for a government that “is able to work in the interest of the whole country, all its citizens, not some political or business groups.” The statement came in the wake of reports […] …read more...
Russia’s conflict against Ukraine and the West: the religious dimension
The conflict Russia is waging against Ukraine has, from the very beginning, had many different dimensions. Currently, it is increasingly assuming the narrative and form of an existential conflict between two antagonistic civilizations with competing ideologies, cultures and religions. The February 12 meeting in Havana, between the Roman pontiff,...
The tryzub is the new meme
Maidan and the war in eastern Ukraine have patriotic Ukrainians around the world coming out of the woodwork. People with barely one gram of Ukrainian heritage are wearing blue-and-yellow everything, and boasting tryzub tattoos. The tryzub (trident) has always been a special, meaningful symbol for Ukrainians, and anathema to the Russians. The...
Ukrainian reforms two years after the Maidan and the Russian invasion
With more unity and leadership, 2016 can and should be the year Ukraine breaks free from the unholy alliance of dirty money and dirty politics which has ripped off the Ukrainian people for too long. Without it, Ukraine will slide backwards once again into corruption, lawlessness and vassal statehood. Following is a slightly abridged version […]...
Trump says Ukraine affects U.S. less than other NATO countries
As reported by The Washington Post, (“Trump questions need for NATO, outlines noninterventionist foreign policy,” by Philip Rucker and Robert Costa, March 21), Donald Trump said on the subject of Russia’s aggression in Ukraine that America’s allies are “not doing anything.” The Washington Post story quoted him as saying: “Ukraine is a...
Zankovetska Theater to present “Natalka Poltavka” in U.S.
CLEVELAND – The Maria Zankovetska Theater based in Lviv is one of Ukraine’s most distinguished and respected cultural institutions. Starting April 1 at the Ukrainian Catholic Seminary in Stamford, Conn., and ending April 10 at the Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center in Jenkintown, Pa., near Philadelphia, the group will be on tour...
Russia to Deploy Weapons to Disputed Kurile Islands
Russia this year will deploy some of its newest missile defense systems and drones to the Kurile islands, where Moscow and Tokyo have rival territorial claims, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Friday. The dispute over the islands, known as the Kuriles in Russia and the Northern Territories in Japan, has strained the two countries’...
