Section: US & Canada
Rebel authorities in eastern Ukraine start paying pensions in Russian rubles
Russia-backed rebel authorities in eastern Ukraine have started paying pensions in Russian rubles. …read more Source: FOX...
Nemstov’s Report on Russian Soldiers in Ukraine to be Published Next Month
A report about Russian involvement in the war in eastern Ukraine, which opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was working on before he was murdered in February, will be published next month, his supporters say. The politician’s close friend and associate Ilya Yashin, who leads the Moscow branch of Nemtsov’s RPR-Parnas party and who was...
Ukraine Crisis Update: UN Mine Awareness Campaign Aims To Teach Children, Families About Risks Of Unexploded Ordnances
A United Nations program aimed at helping children in crisis-stricken countries announced Tuesday a new campaign around mine awareness in eastern Ukraine. Though the country has entered a ceasefire in its conflict with Russia and state officials are working to remove weapons from residential areas, many explosives remain on the ground. UNICEF...
World Bank Says Russia’s Economic Outlook Worse Than Thought
The World Bank predicts Russia’s economy will shrink more than previously forecast in the next two years as the effects of low oil prices and Western sanctions over Moscow’s interference in Ukraine take hold …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ancient Battle On UN Security Council ‘Trigger’ Bogs Down Iran Nuclear Talks
By Louis Charbonneau LAUSANNE, Switzerland, April 1 (Reuters) – It is one of those concepts that is particularly odious to Russia — an automatic trigger mechanism under which the U.N. Security Council would be forced to do something. Now a dispute over that issue threatens to wreck marathon negotiations on a preliminary political...
Hundreds of Indians Evacuated from Yemen; Senior MQM Official Arrested in London; Fighting Intensifies in Sangin
India Indians evacuated from Yemen The Indian Ministry of External Affairs said that approximately 349 Indian nationals were rescued from Yemen’s Aden city, according to news reports on Wednesday (Indian Express, Economic Times, BBC). In response to the security concerns in Yemen, and after Saudi Arabia launched airstrikes against the...
‘Just Give Us Our Freedom,’ Says Wife Of Exiled Crimean Tatar Leader
Mustafa Dzhemilev, the long-time leader of the Crimean Tatars has been banned from the peninsula since Russia annexed the Ukrainian region in March 2014. But his wife, Safinar Dzhemileva, remains in Crimea and spoke recently to Mumin Shakirov of RFE/RL’s Russian Service. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine turns down Georgia’s request for former president’s extradition
Ukraine has rejected Georgia’s request for the extradition of its former president, Mikhail Saakashvili, who is facing a criminal probe at home. …read more Source: FOX...
Ukraine Rejects Georgia’s Request To Extradite Saakashvili
Ukraine has rejected Georgia’s request for the extradition of former President Mikheil Saakashvili, saying it was politically motivated. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Obama’s Foreign Policy: Continuity Rather Than Contradictions
Analysts of foreign policy often dream or fantasize more than they analyze. Every single ideological stripe or every single political Internet site produces its analyses in accordance with preconceived notions or preferred frames of references. It is often difficult to know if analysts from different backgrounds are talking about the same events...
