Section: US & Canada
Last-Ditch Talks With Russia Fail To Resolve Impasse Over Trade
Last-ditch negotiations aimed at addressing Russia’s concerns about a free trade agreement between the European Union and Ukraine ended without result December 21. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Stalin Gaining Popularity in Putin’s Russia
Russia’s Communist Party on Monday honored the birthday of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin with flowers and speeches during an annual ritual at his grave on Moscow’s Red Square. Gennady Zyuganov, head of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF), gave a long, admiring speech on Stalin to the gathered crowd. ”Today, the...
European Union extends sanctions against Russia
BRUSSELS — The European Union on Monday extended sanctions against Russia for six months, achieving unity among 28 member nations despite rising divisions over how long to press a major trading partner on its annexation of Crimea and fueling of a separatist war in Ukraine. The decision to extend the sanctions comes at the end of a difficult year...
Russia Says Ukraine Failed To Repay Multibillion Debt
Russia’s Finance Ministry says Ukraine has failed to repay a $3 billion Eurobond debt owed to Russia by December 21. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Blast Hits Donetsk Bus Stop
Russian news agencies have reported that a powerful explosive device went off late on December 21 in the city of Donetsk, in conflict-torn eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russian Activist Facing Protest Charges Flees To Ukraine
A Russian opposition activist who became the first person charged under a strict new protest law has reportedly fled to neighboring Ukraine, where he will seek political asylum. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Vladimir Sorokin and the Russian Novel’s Identity Crisis
Maria Sorokina / FSG / Zak Bickel / The AtlanticVast, grand, breathtaking—English-language readers typically associate such words with the 19th-century Russian novel. Bleak, brave, subversive—those go with 20th-century Russian fiction. If it’s epic or dissident, we know how to make sense of it. Following the Soviet Union’s collapse in...
Ukraine Media Says Govt Has Banned Limp Bizkit Leader Durst
Ukrainian news media are reporting that the country’s national security service has banned the leader of the group Limp Bizkit from entering the country for five years. Fred Durst, the founder of the group and its lead singer, was quoted in news reports in October as saying he was interested in buying a house in Crimea, the Black Sea region...
EU extends economic sanctions on Russia until mid-2016 over Ukraine
The European Union has linked the lifting of the sanctions to full implementation of a peace deal in east Ukraine …read more Source: The Globe and...
EU-Ukraine trade pact talks with Russia end without result
BRUSSELS (AP) — Talks aimed at addressing Russia’s concerns about a free trade agreement between the European Union and Ukraine have ended without result and as a result, it will go into force as planned on Jan. 1. …read more Source: U.S....
