Section: US & Canada
“All In” On Ukraine
In October 1949, as the defeated forces of Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan and Mao Zedong declared the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Republicans in Congress blamed Harry S. Truman for losing China. Some demanded a pivot from Europe to Asia in U.S. foreign policy. Truman might have been persuaded a few years earlier when U.S....
Global press freedom is in bad shape
Bad news for journalists: Freedom House published its 35th annual Freedom of the Press Report today and among its chief findings was that press freedom has declined over the past year to a 10 year low. Even worse, the rate of decline accelerated drastically, with the world seeing its largest one year drop in press freedom in a decade. As of...
SEE IT: Fox assembles double-decker sandwich in Chernobyl
A wild fox built a double-decker sandwich after a team of Ukrainian journalists put bread and meat on the ground in Chernobyl. …read more Source: New York Daily...
A Sticky Situation For Poroshenko As Russians Seize Candy Assets
Russian authorities have seized several assets at a candy factory owned by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in the Russian city of Lipetsk. The move is certain to complicate Poroshenko’s attempts to divest himself of his holdings. But some critics suggest he’s not all that eager to sell. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe...
Gazprom profits down 86 percent
Daniel J. GraeberMOSCOW, April 29 (UPI) — Russian energy company Gazprom said Wednesday its profits for the year ending Dec. 31 were down 86 percent on currency values and charges tied to Ukraine. …read more Source: United Press...
Some 28,000 young Jewish adults to visit Israel this summer on Birthright
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Some 28,000 young Jewish adults will visit Israel through the Taglit-Birthright Israel program this summer, the organization announced. Also during the summer, the 15-year-old program will welcome its 500,000th participant. Prior to 2000, about 1,500 Jewish American young adults visited Israel each year, according to...
Ukrainian PM Says Wildfire Near Chornobyl Contained
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk says firefighters have contained a large forest fire burning near the abandoned Chornobyl nuclear power plant. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Here’s A Wild Fox In Chernobyl Making His Own Sandwich. That Is All.
This is a wild fox who lives in the Chernobyl nuclear exclusion zone in Ukraine. And here, you can watch him assemble a “five-decker sandwich.” According to the BBC, a team from Radio Free Europe had encountered the fox after stopping their cars near the nuclear power plant. The humans tossed the fox some bread and pieces of sausage,...
The Daily Vertical: Moscow’s Desperate Donbas Endgame
The Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that appears Monday through Friday. Viewers can suggest topics via Twitter @PowerVertical or on the Power Vertical Facebook page. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Radiation levels normal in Kyiv as a result of forest fire in Chornobyl exclusion zone
Ukrainian authorities say there has been no change in background radiation levels in the capital as a result of fires in woodlands in the exclusion zone around the destroyed Chornobyl nuclear power plant. …read more Source: Global...
