Section: US & Canada
Ukraine Security Official Warns Pro-Russian Dissidents To ‘Shut Their Mouths’ After Opposition Murders
A top Ukraine security official spoke Tuesday about the dangers government critics face in the country after the recent murders of three opposition figures. Pro-Russian journalists Oles Buzina and Serhiy Sukhobov and former politician Oleh Kalashnikov were all killed last week by unknown assailants. …read more Source: International Business...
EU Expected To Announce Antitrust Charges Against Gazprom
The European Commission on April 22 is expected to announce antitrust charges against state-controlled Russian energy giant Gazprom for noncompetitive practices in the EU, a move that might stoke further tensions between Moscow and the West. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Pivot to Japan
“The Japanese,” wrote Joseph Grew to President Roosevelt’s Secretary of State Cordell Hull in May 1933, are “extremely nationalistic [and] war-loving.” They had already become, at the time, observed Roosevelt’s Ambassador in Tokyo, “a tremendously powerful fighting machine.” Nearly a decade later, three years before the end of World...
Cameraman For Closed Crimean Tatar TV Channel Detained
A cameraman for a Crimean Tatar television channel that was shut down by the Russian authorities controlling the Black Sea peninsula has been detained over a clash in February 2014, shortly before its annexation by Moscow. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Situation Report: China looking at floating bases; Islamic State’s weed; defense contractors eye two big prizes; and lots more
By Paul McLeary and Ariel Robinson I’m on a boat. Forget about China building its own islands out of rocks in the South China Sea. Two Chinese companies are working on constructing massive, 2 km long floating sea bases that can move around according to need, and conduct a range of military operations. The idea is to build multiple...
It’s Tax Time In Ukraine, And Financial Discrepancies Suggest Corruption Endures
It’s tax season in Ukraine. And as politicians’ declarations come in, they suggest that corruption remains an enduring problem. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia’s Medvedev sees more economic pain from sanctions in 2015
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said he expected the economy to suffer further this year from Western sanctions over Moscow’s role in the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source: The Globe and...
Ruble Falls To Two-Week Low Against U.S. Dollar
Russia’s ruble currency has fallen to a two-week low against the U.S. dollar. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
What you need to know about today’s economic news
It’s the day you’ve been waiting for! (Probably.) At last, at long last, it is finally federal budget day. Let the debate – over everything from unemployment, to tax-free savings, to child care benefits, to stimulus – begin (and then we can hash it all over again tomorrow morning.) Wholesale trade numbers will also be out for Canada...
Bomb Blast In Government-Held Kharkiv, Ukraine
Authorities say a bomb exploded in the center of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on April 21. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
