Section: US & Canada
Stunning Photographs Show Crimea’s Beauty In Every Season
For photographer Sergei Anashkevitch, taking remarkable images of China, France, Tanzania and seemingly everywhere in between is just another day in the life. He posts images of his travels to his blog, “A Life In Travel,” and to his Instagram account, where he’s amassed more than 13,000 followers. But no matter where he goes,...
John Kerry Meets Putin To Gauge Flexibility On Ukraine, Syria
By Arshad Mohammed and Denis Dyomkin SOCHI, Russia, May 12 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to probe Russia’s willingness to curb its involvement in Ukraine and its backing of Syria’s president. Kerry met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for more than four hours before...
Boris Nemtsov’s Final Report Unveils Russia’s Involvement In East Ukraine War And Pain Back Home
At least 220 Russian soldiers were killed while fighting beside pro-Russian rebels in the East Ukraine war, according to the final report of slain politician Boris Nemtsov that was released on Tuesday. …read more Source: International Business...
Could Potato Diplomacy Warm Ties Between Russia and the United States?
Secretary of State John Kerry met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Sochi Tuesday with tensions between Russia and the United States at their highest levels in decades because of Washington’s anger over Russia’s military intervention into Ukraine and Moscow’s anger at perceived Western...
Key Allegations Of Nemtsov War Report
Before he was killed in February, opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was working on an investigative report to expose what he described as President Vladimir Putin’s “war” in Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
‘What Does Moscow Want?’ Asks Georgian President
The former Soviet republics of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine are moving inexorably from the orbit of a Russian state that promotes values fundamentally alien to its neighbors, according to Georgia’s president. President Georgy Margvelashvili told Reuters in an interview that Russia, which crushed Georgian forces in a 2008 five-day war, could...
A former congressman mistakenly blamed Islam when he couldn’t buy booze at Walmart
Former Rep. Allen West (R-Florida) apparently made an embarrassing error after he couldn’t buy alcohol from a particular Walmart cashier in Dallas, Texas. In a since-updated blog post on his site, the conservative firebrand suggested on Monday that he wasn’t allow to purchase booze from the employee because the cashier was Muslim and...
Nemstov allies’ report cites Russian involvement in Ukraine
Ed AdamczykMOSCOW, May 12 (UPI) — At least 220 Russian soldiers have died in fighting in Ukraine, a report released Tuesday by colleagues of slain activist Boris Nemtsov said. …read more Source: United Press...
Georgian President: Russia is Alien To Us
Shockingly enough, it turns out that bold irredentist moves by the biggest country in a region tend to spook its neighbors. That, at least, is the tone set by Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili as he spoke to reporters during his first trip to Brussels to meet with EU and NATO officials.On the precedent of Ukraine: “A country that is...
Russian opposition: 220 Russian soldiers died in Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian opposition activists published a report Tuesday that they claim proves that Russia is deeply involved in the war in Ukraine, seeking to counter overwhelming state media reports casting the events as a local uprising against the Ukrainian government. …read more Source: CNS...
