Section: US & Canada
Dutch Say Inquiry Into Malaysia Jet Crash Is Being Blocked in Ukraine
Pro-Russian separatists, who strongly deny that they had anything to do with the disaster, are concealing cellphone communications, Dutch law enforcement officials say. …read more Source: The New York...
Army begins next rotation of troops in Poland
VALCARTIER, Que. – About 90 soldiers from 5 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group in Valcartier, Que., have deployed to Poland as part of a NATO response to Russian actions in central and eastern Europe. Over the next month, approximately 200 soldiers will take over Operation Reassurance duties from the 4th Canadian Division’s 2 Canadian...
Kiev Holocaust memorial defaced again with swastikas
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The monument commemorating Jewish victims of the Babi Yar massacre in Kiev was desecrated for the fifth time in about a year. Swastikas drawn on the monument were discovered last week by a delegation from the Shorashim organization, which helps immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union clarify their Jewish status in...
Army begins rotation of troops in Poland; 90 soldiers leave Valcartier, Que.
VALCARTIER, Que. – About 90 soldiers from 5 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group in Valcartier, Que., have deployed to Poland as part of a NATO response to Russian actions in central and eastern Europe.Over the next month, approximately 200 soldiers will take over Operation Reassurance duties from the 4th Canadian Division’s 2 Canadian...
Ukraine wants Canadian TV programs
KYIV, Ukraine – “The Littlest Hobo,” “Anne of Green Gables,” maybe even “Flashpoint” could find a new lease on life in Ukraine as the country’s broadcasting council scrambles to fill TV screens with something other than Russian programming, says a senior Ukrainian official. To counter — both real and perceived — propaganda throughout the...
Police threaten to break up ‘Electric Yerevan’ protests as tensions rise
Yerevan (AFP) – Armenian authorities threatened Sunday to forcefully break up a protest against rising electricity prices and police brutality after the president announced concessions in a bid to calm tensions.Thousands of demonstrators were expected to take to the streets of the capital Yerevan in the evening after President Serzh...
Ukrainians clamour for Canadian TV content and hardware
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko at the Presidential administration building in Kyiv, Ukraine on June 6, 2015. (The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld) KYIV, Ukraine – “The Littlest Hobo,” “Anne of Green Gables,” maybe even “Flashpoint” could find a new lease on life in Ukraine as the country’s...
Ukrainians clamour for Canadian TV content and hardware as plug pulled on Russian shows
KYIV, Ukraine – “The Littlest Hobo,” “Anne of Green Gables,” maybe even “Flashpoint” could find a new lease on life in Ukraine as the country’s broadcasting council scrambles to fill TV screens with something other than Russian programming, says a senior Ukrainian official.To counter — both real and...
Ukraine’s Wonder Woman
More than 8.3 million people have seen Yulia Marushevska’s video from the Maidan uprising, but now she’s got to face down the bureaucracy she’s supposed to control. …read more Source: The Daily...
Kasparov: ‘Putin Doesn’t Need Friends Any More. He Needs Enemies’
Adolf Hitler, I suggest to Garry Kasparov, undeniably had his faults. But is it wrong to imagine that even the führer—in common with Stalin, Robespierre and Pol Pot—initially entered political life with some notion of enhancing the public good? “Define good,” replies Kasparov. “Then examine the consequences. Stalin killed more...
