Section: US & Canada
Briefing: Endgame Diplomacy
The Power Vertical Briefing is a short look ahead to the stories expected to make news in Russia in the coming week. It is hosted by Brian Whitmore, author of the Power Vertical blog, and appears every Monday. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
RFE/RL Journalists Assaulted
Journalists from RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service were assaulted by an unknown man while filming at a company headquarters near Odessa. The team were investigating a $3 million tender for licence plates issued by the Interior Ministry, which has been won by a company with no previous record of making licence plates. During the assault, captured...
U.S., European Fighter Jets Begin Arctic Exercise Near Russia
OSLO (Reuters) – About 100 fighter jets from the United States and eight European nations began an Arctic training exercise in the Nordic nations on Monday, a region worried by increased Russian military activity. The exercise, based in the north of Norway, Sweden and Finland with 4,000 personnel, is meant to test cooperation among Arctic...
Tremors in Europe
Another European election, another surprise: Andrzej Duda stunned observers by sweeping Bronislaw Komorowski in Poland’s presidential elections. Duda, a member of the right-wing Law and Justice party, is projected to have won 52%-48%, pushing out the centrist Komorowski, whose party has been at Poland’s helm for eight years. The...
US, European Jets Join Arctic Exercise Near Russia
About 100 fighter jets from the United States and eight European nations began an Arctic training exercise in the Nordic nations on Monday, a region worried by increased Russian military activity. The exercise, based in the north of Norway, Sweden and Finland with 4,000 personnel, is meant to test cooperation among Arctic nations near Russia. It...
About 100 US, European Jets Join Arctic Exercise Near Russia
About 100 fighter jets from the United States and eight European nations began an Arctic training exercise in the Nordic nations on Monday, a region worried by increased Russian military activity. The exercise, based in the north of Norway, Sweden and Finland with 4,000 personnel, is meant to test cooperation among Arctic nations near Russia. It...
The Mysterious Assassination Of A Rebel Commander In Ukraine
The assassination of Aleksei Mozgovoi, a separatist commander in eastern Ukraine and proponent of the idea of an independent Novorossia, has led to a lot of finger pointing. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Putin is risking a clash with the IMF over Russia’s $3 billion loan to Ukraine
President Vladimir Putin is warning that he could call in Russia’s $3 billion loan to Ukraine at any time, a move that would spark a stand-off with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Under the terms of the original 2013 deal, negotiated with then President Viktor Yanukoych who fled the country last year following massive anti-government...
In tiny Moldova, hints of a ‘federalized’ Ukraine’s future
Gagauzia, an autonomous region in southern Moldova, looks to Moscow before the West, much as Ukraine’s restive east does. And the poor, agricultural region could show the problems a federalized Donbass might face. …read more Source: Christian Science...
Russia says it has no access to men detained in Ukraine
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s embassy in Ukraine says it has still not been given access to two Russian citizens detained earlier this month on suspicion of fighting alongside separatists in the eastern region of Luhansk. …read more Source: CNS...
