Section: US & Canada
Editorial: Canada’s modest contribution welcome
We welcome this country’s commitment to send a small Canadian Forces contingent to Ukraine, where it’ll spend the next two years training up soldiers there in areas like explosive ordnance disposal, military policing, medicine, flight safety and logistics system modernization. It’s important, however, to keep our contribution in...
Top NATO official: alliance must assure public it can confront Moscow, be ready defend Baltics
A top NATO official has acknowledged that the western military alliance was wrong-footed by Moscow’s moves in Ukraine and now has to reassure the public it has the means and will to confront Russia. …read more Source: FOX...
Kremlin Says Putin Made Just $151,000 Last Year
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin earned about $151,000 in 2014, less than many others in the presidential administration, according to details of his income declaration published by the Kremlin on Wednesday. Putin’s wealth has long been the focus of speculation by opponents who portray him as one of the richest men...
Putin’s Nordic Miscalculation
HELSINKI – Vladimir Putin is proving to be a tactical genius but a strategic blunderer. Perhaps the most important geostrategic result of the ongoing invasion of Ukraine is occurring 800 miles to the north in Scandinavia, whose sturdy governments, rather than being cowed by unsubtle Russian attempts at intimidation, are instead coordinating...
No need to bring Russia back to G8, Nicholson says
Foreign Affairs Minister Rob Nicholson told reporters Wednesday morning he doesn’t see a need to bring Russia back into the G8. Speaking on teleconference from a G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Lubeck, Germany, Nicholson said the “affable” meeting touched on a range of issues, from Ebola and Iran to Ukraine and Yemen. Earlier this...
Ruble on the Rebound
The Russian ruble is rebounding, outpacing all other world currencies against the dollar this year. The 20 percent recovery this month alone stands in stark contrast to last year, when U.S. officials smugly pointed to Russia’s plummeting currency as proof that Western sanctions against Moscow for meddling in Ukraine were working. That...
Ukraine Crisis: Russia Accused Of Sending Military Weapons To Rebels
Russia was expected to send another convoy into eastern Ukraine on Wednesday that Moscow says will be packed with humanitarian aid, but Ukraine has accused its Eastern European neighbor of loading up the convoy with military equipment to supply pro-Russia rebels. The convoy would be the 24th sent into Ukraine from Russia since the conflict...
Ukrainian Rockers Mock Separatists
A Ukrainian amateur rock group has created a mock anthem for Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine and posted it on YouTube. The video mixes cliches of Soviet-era propaganda with shots from the current conflict. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukrainian Art Group Goes Viral With Music Videos Mocking Separatists
A string of satirical musical clips mocking Russia’s support for separatists in eastern Ukraine has gone viral on YouTube. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Hollywood Movie Barred From Russian Theaters Ahead Of Premiere
Russia’s Culture Ministry has barred a Hollywood movie set in the post-World War II Soviet Union a day before its scheduled April 16 premiere, because of what it said was the distorsion of “the historical facts and the idiosyncratic treatment of events before, during and after” World War II. …read more Source: Radio Free...
