Section: US & Canada
Number of Russian Troops Killed in Ukraine Accidentally Published Online By Russia?
A Russian website published and then quickly removed what initially seemed like a mundane article this week titled “Increases in Pay for Military in 2015.” The reason for the sudden removal was what appears to be the accidental publication of secret figures on the numbers of deaths and injuries sustained by Russian soldiers fighting in eastern...
Ukraine’s Tarantino Goes to the Gulag
Oleg Sentsov, a Rising Star in European Cinema, is the Latest Victim of Russia’s Show Trials …read more Source: The Daily...
Amid Russian Hostility, Finland Says It Can’t Protect The Baltic Region From Attacks
Finnish President Sauli Niinisto made it clear Tuesday to his country’s Baltic neighbors of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia that Helsinki would not be able help them against any future Russian hostility, according to a Defense News report. Like the Baltic States, Finland shares a large border with Russia that has seen an increased level of...
Why Not Polyamory?
The Spectator, a British weekly which claims uninterrupted publication since 1828, covers cultural and political topics with a moderately conservative bias. (It also cultivates excellent writing, sometimes spiced with the distinctive nastiness that is the product of higher education in Britain.) In its issue of August 8, 2015, The Speccie, as its...
The Daily Vertical: A Song Of Defiance
The Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that appears Monday through Friday. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Former Foreign, Defense Ministers Urge NATO, Russia To Cooperate
A group of former foreign and defense ministers is urging Russia and NATO to come up with a set of rules to handle unexpected military encount …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia Sentences Ukrainian Filmmaker Oleg Sentsov to Twenty Years In Prison
Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian filmmaker best known for the 2011 movie Gámer, was sentenced to 20 years in a Russian prison on charges of terrorism on Tuesday in the city of Rostov-on-Don, the BBC reports. Sentsov, a vocal pro-Ukrainian activist, was arrested in May of 2014, and charged with organizing two arson attacks in the eastern Ukrainian city...
Marlene Rivier the NDP pick for Ottawa West-Nepean
Veteran community activist Marlene Rivier was nominated as the NDP candidate in Ottawa West-Nepean Tuesday, beating three challengers including former Ottawa city councillor Alex Cullen. Cullen was runner-up on the last of three ballots at a packed Ukrainian Orthodox Hall on Byron Ave. Rivier, who is the current president of the Ottawa...
The day in pictures
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How should Europe deal with its deluge of refugees?
GWEN IFILL: European Union officials say that the number of refugees and migrants fleeing to Europe reached a record high of more than 107,000 last month. The surge has reached Hungary’s southern border, where more than 2,000 people, most from Syria, crossed into the country yesterday and today, even as the government erected a border fence...
