Section: US & Canada
Where Do Oligarchs Stash Their Cash?
How do the wealthiest citizens of post-Soviet countries keep their money safe? For some, it’s simple: just buy a palatial home in London. To show the public how it’s done, anticorruption campaigners took journalists on a “Kleptocracy Tour” of London residences owned by foreign oligarchs. (RFE/RL’s Marek Hajduk and...
Ukraine’s Blockade Leaves Borders Clogged With Russian Trucks
Activists in the southern Ukrainian region of Bukovyna have been blocking Russian trucks from crossing the border for days. The Ukrainian government made a Russian truck ban nationwide on February 15, saying it was in response to Moscow’s ban on Ukrainian trucks a day earlier. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source:...
Ukraine in Political Crisis as Government Faces No Confidence Vote
Ukrainian prime minister could be ousted this afternoon. …read more Source: ABC...
Ukraine PM Yatsenyuk faces threat of no-confidence vote
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk is due to address parliament, where he faces the threat of a vote of no confidence. A no-confidence vote could cause the government to collapse, leading to snap elections. Mr Yatsenyuk’s government has been criticised over the slow pace of reform and faces allegations of corruption. Western...
Fighting Between Ukrainian Forces and Separatists Is Surging Once Again
Conflict in eastern Ukraine between state forces and Russian-backed separatists has escalated in recent weeks, despite a series of ceasefire attempts over the last year, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE) reported on Tuesday. “It’s still, unfortunately, an active conflict,” Lamberto Zannier, secretary-general of the Organization for...
Tatars Step Up Resistance to Russian Rule Over Crimea
MoreExclusive: Russia’s Prime Minister on Syria, Sanctions and a New Cold WarRussia’s Former Anti-Doping Chief Dies After Resigning From Scandal-Hit AgencyExclusive: Russian Premier Remains Defiant on Bombing of Syrian Rebels (UROZHAYNE, Crimea) — Elnara Asanova lives alone with her four small children because her husband, an ethnic...
Why Leftists Want to Draft Women
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. Hillary Clinton had endorsed forcing women to register for a draft. Now the issue is taking on new urgency. Despite the left’s anti-draft posturing, it has fond memories of its protests during the Vietnam War and it is the...
Laurus Contest Winners
‘Ustina,’ by Matthew Teter Above, the first winner of the Laurus contest: a portrait of the character Ustina from the celebrated Russian novel. Matthew Teter, the San Antonio, Texas, art teacher who produced the striking image above, writes: I was inspired by the novel LAURUS to paint an imagined portrait of the character Ustina. The novel...
How the World Looks From the Russian Perspective
This piece is an excerpt taken from a longer article originally featured in Russia In Global Affairs.Old Rules Gone, No New Ones in Place MOSCOW — Let me start with global trends. The era that began with the end of the Second World War is now over. That period was characterized by a relatively orderly and stable system of confrontation. In...
It’s time for the Liberals to show us their Arctic plan
During one of the 2015 election debates, Justin Trudeau accused Prime Minister Harper of lacking an Arctic policy, calling it “Big Sled, No Dogs.” The idea was that the Conservative government’s Arctic record was empty rhetoric on investment in northern communities and on security in the face of Russian expansion in nearby waters. Mr....
