Section: US & Canada
EU ‘to announce anti-trust charges against Gazprom’
Brussels (AFP) – EU regulators will announce on Wednesday anti-trust charges against Russia energy giant Gazprom, sources close to the matter told AFP.The European Commission formally opened its probe in September 2012 and has significantly delayed moving forward due to tensions with Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine.The EU will officially...
U.S., Ukraine kick off joint military exercises
Troops from the United States and Ukraine kicked off joint training exercises Monday intended to help bolster Ukraine’s defences against incursions from Russian-backed separatists in the east. …read more Source: CTV...
Letter From Europe: Competing Over World War II’s Memory
The echoes of World War II have never stopped reverberating in France. But perhaps nowhere is the divergence over the memory of the war more acute than between Russia and Ukraine. …read more Source: The New York...
U.S., Kyiv Launch Joint Training Exercises In Western Ukraine
U.S. and Ukrainian troops have begun joint training exercises in Western Ukraine in a bid to strengthen government forces that are fighting Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
US, Ukraine Start Military Training, Defying Russian Fury
Troops from the United States and Ukraine kicked off joint training exercises Monday intended to help bolster Ukraine’s defenses against incursions from Russian-backed separatists in the east. Speaking under driving rain at a military base in the western region of Lviv, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said the country’s armed...
Cyprus: Russia’s Potemkin Village in the European Union?
Cyprus recently signed an agreement with Russia giving the Kremlin’s navy ships the right to access the island nation’s ports. Cypriot president Nicos Anastasiades quickly specified that this agreement, signed during his visit in Moscow in February, was merely the symbolic renewal of a former 1996 agreement that existed between the...
Tongue-Tied on Ukraine’s Front Lines
Three years ago, well before the war in Ukraine began, Roman Matys was shopping at Tommy Hilfiger in downtown Lviv when a sales clerk offered him a customer loyalty card. As Matys read the registration form, he noticed it was in Russian. Like most people in Ukraine, he speaks the language, but the principle of the matter annoyed him. The country...
US Starts Training Ukraine Govt Forces to Fight Pro-Russia Rebels
US paratroopers launched a training mission Monday for Ukrainian government forces who will fight pro-Russian separatists in the east, angering Moscow as the deadly conflict rumbles on.President Petro Poroshenko welcomed troops from the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade for… …read more Source:...
Moscow dismisses Norway’s protests over Arctic islands visit
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Monday dismissed Norway’s protests over a weekend visit to a Norwegian archipelago by a delegation that included Russia’s deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin. Rogozin, who oversees defense in the government among other things and is known for his nationalist views, has been slapped with sanctions barring him...
Georgian Killed Helping Ukrainian Forces Battle Separatists
Another Georgian citizen fighting along Ukrainian forces against Moscow-backed separatists has been killed in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
