Section: US & Canada
Russia wants to fly over US with advanced digital camera
WASHINGTON – Russia will ask permission on Monday to start flying surveillance planes equipped with high-powered digital cameras amid warnings from U.S. intelligence and military officials that such overflights help Moscow collect intelligence on the United States. Russia and the United States are signatories to the Open Skies Treaty, which...
Ukraine’s Eurovision song mourns Moscow purge of Crimean Tatars
By Matthias Williams KIEV (Reuters) – A Crimean Tatar who sings about Joseph Stalin’s deportation of hundreds of thousands of people from… …read more Source:...
Firebomb Attacks Target Russian Banks In Ukraine
In Ukraine’s western city of Lviv, an office of the Russian Sberbank was torched late on February 21 shortly after would-be arsonists failed to set ablaze another Sberbank office in Lviv. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
France, Germany Urge Ukraine To Push Forward On Reforms
The German and French foreign ministers have praised Ukraine for its reforms thus far but is urging Kyiv Ukraine to push for greater progress in battling corruption. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Selects Crimean Tatar For Eurovision Song Contest
The Crimean Tatar singer Jamala has been chosen to represent Ukraine at the Eurovision song contest in Sweden in May. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Picks Crimean Tatar for Eurovision
Ukrainians have chosen a Crimean Tatar singer and her song about the mass deportation of Tatars under Josef Stalin as the country’s entry for this year’s Eurovision song contest.Susana Jamaladinova, who performs under the stage name Jamala, was chosen Sunday night by the… …read more Source:...
The Haphazard Invention of Romania
Aram Bakshian Jr. Politics, Europe Robert Kaplan describes a country uniquely defined by its troubles. Robert D. Kaplan, In Europe’s Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond (New York: Random House, 2016), 336 pp., $28.00. PRINCE METTERNICH once remarked, “the Balkans start at the Rennweg.” The Hapsburg...
Fighting in Ukraine Picks Up Sharply
A resumption of hostilities suggests that Russia, which supports the rebels, is willing to sustain the conflict there as well as in Syria. …read more Source: The New York...
Ukraine picks Crimean Tatar for Eurovision
MOSCOW (AP) — Ukrainians have chosen a Crimean Tatar singer and her song about the mass deportation of Tatars under Josef Stalin as the country’s entry for this year’s Eurovision song contest. …read more Source: U.S....
Ukraine picks Crimean Tatar for Eurovision singing contest
MOSCOW (AP) — Ukrainians have chosen a Crimean Tatar singer and her song about the mass deportation of Tatars under Josef Stalin as the country’s entry for this year’s Eurovision song contest. …read more Source: CNS...
