Section: US & Canada
Ukraine negotiators meet, but progress unseen
Negotiators seeking a resolution of Ukraine’s conflict have ended their latest session without obvious progress. …read more Source: FOX...
Ukraine Group Meets, Without Apparent Progress
Ukraine negotiators meet, but progress unseen …read more Source: ABC...
Toward a Migration Development Bank for Transition Economies
Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan and Otaviano Canuto Labor migration and remittances may bring positive economic effects to developing countries. This is the case particularly in countries like those in Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union members where remittances constitute high shares of foreign-currency revenues and GDP. There is nevertheless clear...
Clean sweep? Ukraine cans all its bribe-hungry traffic cops.
The country’s traffic police are notorious for pulling motorists over to extract bribes. Following a model that worked in Georgia, Ukraine is terminating the entire department and replacing them with new, Western-style patrol cops. …read more Source: Christian Science...
Russian Media Claims Su-24 Bomber Forced US Navy Ship To Abandon Mission, Pentagon Responds With Footage Of Peaceful Encounter
The Pentagon released footage Monday of a close encounter between a U.S. Navy warship and a Russian Su-24 bomber off the coast of Crimea. U.S. officials decided to release the video – a rare occurrence in military circles – to refute “erroneous” descriptions of the incident in foreign media, the Pentagon said. …read more Source:...
Russian warplanes fly near U.S. destroyer off Crimean coast
Fred LambertSEVASTOPOL, Russia, June 2 (UPI) — The U.S. Navy on Monday released video of Russian military aircraft flying close by a U.S. destroyer in the Black Sea. …read more Source: United Press...
Russian has a brand new theory about what brought down a passenger plane in eastern Ukraine
The Russian company that makes Buk air defense systems conceded that a Buk missile was responsible for the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight 17 on July 17, 2014. However, in a news conference, the adviser to the director general of the Almaz-Antei military consortium responsible for Buk systems claimed that the missile that downed MH17 was of...
Crimean Tatar Leader’s Son Found Guilty Of Manslaughter
The son of a leading Crimean Tatar figure has been found guilty of manslaughter by a Russian court. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
History Hijacked: Four Facts Recast By The Kremlin
A new Russian film on the 1968 events in Czechoslovakia has revived accusations that the Kremlin is twisting historical facts to forge a new ideology and justify some of its most controversial actions and policies. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Missile maker says Russia did not shoot down Malaysian plane over Ukraine
By Gabriela Baczynska MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian company that makes the BUK air defense system that was used to shoot down a Malaysian… …read more Source:...
