Section: US & Canada
Russia Prepares to Sue Ukraine
Russia says it is preparing to take Ukraine to court over an outstanding $3 billion loan Moscow issued to the government of former President Viktor Yanukovich in the weeks leading up to his abdication in the face of tenacious street protests in early 2014. Reuters: Russia has offered to restructure the debt in equal installments over the next...
Ukraine ‘in process’ of resuming power supplies to Crimea: Ukrenergo
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine is resuming electricity supplies to Russian-annexed Crimea, a state energy official said on Monday, more than two… …read more Source:...
Joe Biden Says U.S. Is Still Backing Ukraine
During a visit to Kiev, the vice president assured Ukrainian leaders that Russian cooperation in Syria would not change America’s position. …read more Source: The New York...
Dutch Golden Age Art Stolen From Museum Traced to Ukraine
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A trove of Dutch Golden Age art stolen from a provincial Dutch museum nearly 11 years ago has been linked to a volunteer nationalist militia in Ukraine, the museum announced Monday. The Westfries Museum in the northern town of Hoorn went public with claims that the 24 paintings snatched in a burglary on Jan. 9, 2005,...
Ukraine’s Corruption Battle: The Fight Against Graft Goes Online
Natalia Shyrba had never even been to the southwestern Ukrainian city of Odessa when she decided to move there in August to take an unpaid job fighting one of the country’s biggest problems: corruption. The 26-year old who was born in Ukraine left behind a comfortable life in Philadelphia to help build an online government platform where...
Biden Calls On Russia To Stop ‘Continued Aggression’ Against Ukraine
On a visit to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden announced $190 million in new financial and said the United States will never accept Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Life Is Not A (Foreign) Beach For Russians
When a top Russian tourism official said that beach and sea vacations were a foreign idea, it triggered a tsunami of anger — especially when the same official was found to have owned property on a tropical Indian Ocean island. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine rebels linked to trove of stolen Dutch Golden Age art
A trove of Dutch Golden Age art stolen from a provincial Dutch museum nearly 11 years ago has been linked to a volunteer nationalist militia in Ukraine, the museum announced Monday. …read more Source: CTV...
U.S. Navy begins PASSEX exercise with Baltic navies
Ryan MaassWASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (UPI) — The U.S. Navy began its bilateral passing exercise known as PASSEX with ships from the Romanian, Turkish, and Ukrainian Navies on Sunday. …read more Source: United Press...
How Facebook, Google And Twitter Are Combating Terrorism
Facebook, Google and Twitter are stepping up efforts to combat online propaganda and recruiting by Islamic militants, but the Internet companies are doing it quietly to avoid the perception that they are helping the authorities police the Web.On Friday, Facebook Inc said it took down a profile that the company believed belonged to San Bernardino...
