Section: US & Canada
Sweden is making a bunch of war pacts amid ominous warnings from Russia
With an official policy of neutrality dating back to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Sweden has avoided the worst of the violence that has shaped Europe over the past 200 years. But now, with the threat of an aggressive Russia across the Baltic, Stockholm has started pursuing military partnerships with gusto. As Russian military ships and planes...
Ukraine Campaigns to Strip Russia of Its UN Veto Power
Ukraine intends to pursue its campaign to strip Russia of its U.N. Security Council veto power at the United Nations General Assembly annual meeting and debate later this month. Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, voted unanimously Wednesday in favor of an international initiative to preventing use of the veto to block Security...
From Disgraced President to Ukraine’s Lead Diplomat: The Unlikely Redemption of Leonid Kuchma
On September 8, 2015, former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma arrived in Minsk. He travelled to the Belarusian capital, as Ukraine’s representative to the Trilateral Contact Group that seeks to end the conflict in Donbas. At the summit that followed, Kuchma called for the withdrawal of heavy artillery from Eastern Ukraine, and urged the UN...
Ukraine extends or applies sanctions on over 400 individuals, 90 legal entities -decree
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree on Wednesday to extend or apply sanctions on over 400 individuals and 90… …read more Source:...
On Display At ‘Made-In-Russia’ Fair: Hope, Patriotism, And Crimean Wine
A big trade fair in Moscow this week is showing off Russian-made goods that the government hopes will help wean the country off imports – amid signs that the Kremlin campaign for “import-substitution” has had little effect so far. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russian pranksters say they fooled Elton John on Putin ‘call’
Would you recognize Vladimir Putin’s voice if he called? …read more Source: USA...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko: Rebel Elections Threaten Peace Deal
A leader of Russian-backed separatists in east Ukraine signed a decree on Wednesday to hold local elections, a move President Petro Poroshenko condemned as a risky and irresponsible decision that threatened a cease-fire deal. Under the terms of the much-violated Minsk peace agreement, reached in February, local elections were meant to be held in...
The Obama administration is worried that Putin is about to pull a fast one in New York
US President Barack Obama is considering meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin when he comes to New York this month for the United Nations General Assembly, but the Obama administration doesn’t know if that’s a good idea. White House officials are reportedly trying to decide whether the two leaders should meet to “work...
On Russia, Donald Trump’s Bluster Is No Match for Putin
Donald Trump is the latest Republican presidential candidate to falsely assess the impact of President Barack Obama’s engagement in Ukraine. The former Soviet nation is in the middle of a bloody proxy war with Russia that started last year, after Ukrainians revolted against and overthrew the corru …read more Source: The New...
OSCE Urges Full Probe 15 Years After Gongadze’s Disappearance
The OSCE’s media-freedom representative has highlighted the 15th anniversary of the disappearance of Ukrainian investigative journalist Heorhiy Gongadze by reiterating her call for authorities in Kyiv to fully investigate the crime. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
