Section: US & Canada
Putin Urged To Allow Jews To Return To Crimea
Russian president Vladimir Putin has been urged to allow as many as 40,000 Jewish people who left Crimea during the reign of the Soviet Union to return to the now Russian-held peninsula, according to a Moscow Times report. Leonid Grach, head of the Crimean branch of the Communist party, has formally written to Putin to ask him to ease the complex...
The Best Way to Day-Drink Is With Low-Alcohol Brews
Nguyen Huy Kham / Reuters “Beer,” writes the Egyptologist Wolfgang Helck, “could easily have been discovered by chance.” The Babylonians and ancient Egyptians didn’t have microbrewing supplies, but they had grains—grains that would, from time to time, get wet, interact with airborne yeasts, and voila, a brewski was born. That’s...
Russia Will Deploy First Bastion Surface-To-Surface Missile System In Crimea By 2020
Russia will deploy the first Bastion silo-based surface-to-ship missile system in the Crimean Peninsula by 2020, Moscow-based Interfax news agency reported Thursday. The new missile system will be positioned in the region as part of the Kremlin’s plans to increase security in the Black Sea area. …read more Source: International...
Russia: New US Military Strategy Is Confrontational
Russia said Thursday a new U.S. military strategy was confrontational and would not help improve relations with Moscow, strained by the crisis in Ukraine. The strategy, released by the Pentagon on Wednesday, said Russia had repeatedly demonstrated it does not respect the sovereignty of its neighbors and that it was willing to use force to achieve...
Azov Regiment Stands Off With Rebels In Seaside Ghost Town
A former holiday resort on the Sea of Azov, the town of Shyrokyne now stands largely abandoned, patrolled by fighters on both sides of Ukraine’s conflict. Members of the Azov Regiment, a former volunteer militia now included in the National Guard, are holed up in burned-out buildings near the coast as they trade fire with pro-Russian...
Ukraine Says Russian Generals Lead Separatists
An report sent to U.S. officials names names. …read more Source:...
NATO chief to inspect site of future alliance facility
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is meeting top officials in Romania and will inspect a site where the alliance will build a facility in reaction to the crisis in Ukraine. …read more Source: CNS...
NATO chief in Romania to inspect site where alliance to build facility in reaction to Ukraine
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is meeting top officials in Romania and will inspect a site where the alliance will build a facility in reaction to the crisis in Ukraine. …read more Source: FOX...
NATO Chief to Inspect Site of Future Alliance Facility
NATO chief in Romania to inspect site where alliance to build facility in reaction to Ukraine …read more Source: ABC...
Russia, US Work To Restore ‘Normalcy’ in Their Relations: Russian Foreign Minister
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia and the United States are becoming more realistic and are working together to restore “normalcy” in diplomatic relations between the two countries. While the bilateral relations between Russia and the United States seem to be at an all-time low after the Ukraine crisis, it is also feared...
