Section: US & Canada
Actor Depardieu banned from Ukraine for stance on Russia
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine has banned French actor Gerard Depardieu from entering the country for five years, its state security service said on… …read more Source:...
OSCE Calls For Safe Conditions In Ukraine After Monitor Injured In Blast
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s special mission to Ukraine on July 28 made a fresh appeal to all sides in the military conflict in eastern Ukraine to guarantee safe conditions for its monitors after one of its officers was wounded during an exchange of fire. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Blacklists French Actor Gerard Depardieu For Five Years
Ukraine has blacklisted French film star, now Russian national, Gerard Depardieu, barring him from entering the country for five years, a spokeswoman for the National Security Service of Ukraine said on July 28. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia expected to veto UN tribunal on MH17
Russia on Wednesday is expected to veto a UN Security Council resolution to set up an international criminal court to prosecute those responsible for shooting down a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine a year ago. …read more Source: CTV...
World Briefing: U.N. Council to Vote on Creating Tribunal On Downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight
The jetliner is believed to have been destroyed by a surface-to-air missile fired from territory controlled by pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine …read more Source: The New York...
Russian veto expected as UN votes on tribunal for downing of Malaysian plane
Russia is expected to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution to set up an international criminal court to prosecute those responsible for shooting down a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine a year ago. …read more Source: Global...
East Ukraine War Death Toll: 2,300 Ukrainian Soldiers Dead, Hundreds Missing Since Conflict Began, Military Says
More than 2,300 Ukrainian soldiers have died since the east Ukraine war began in April 2014, the head of the civilian-military cooperation department of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksiy Nozdrachov, said Tuesday. In addition to the death toll, which represented nearly a third of the total number of deaths in the country as a result of the war,...
Russia Names US NGO ‘Undesirable’
Russian prosecutors Tuesday designated the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a Washington-based non-profit group funded by the U.S. Congress, as “undesirable” — making it the first foreign NGO to be banned in Russia under a controversial new law. In a statement posted on its website, the Prosecutor General’s office said an...
On the Ground in Russia
After traveling to Russia for more than 30 years as a “citizen diplomat,” Sharon Tennison isn’t buying the war propaganda intended to demonize Putin and cast us back into a Cold War. Originally a nurse in San Francisco, she has traveled in Russia more extensively than most citizens of that country, taking fellow Americans there...
Ukraine war monitor injured
They are meant to be monitoring a ceasefire but are increasingly caught between the shots themselves. …read more Source:...
