Section: US & Canada
The Return of the Mercenary
Rande Archer/Flickr The use of mercenaries in warfare has a very long history—much longer, in fact, than the almost-exclusive deployment of national militaries to wage wars. Before the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 ended Europe’s Thirty Years’ War and marked the rise of the modern state system, medieval powers from kings to popes...
Ukraine officials arrested, dismissed; stage set for possible political unrest
Ukraine’s president acted to quell a potential source of fresh political unrest Wednesday by dismissing the truculent billionaire governor of a region neighbouring areas where fighting is still taking place between government and separatist forces. …read more Source: CTV...
In ‘war of the oligarchs,’ Ukrainians will be the losers
President fires billionaire governor of the eastern region of Dnipropetrovsk as new fault lines emerge in Kiev …read more Source: The Globe and...
Drama as Ukraine arrests officials suspected of corruption on live TV
DONETSK, Ukraine — They were arrested on live television. Ukrainian police walked into a nationally televised meeting of the country’s cabinet of ministers in Kiev on Wednesday, and with cameras rolling, slapped cuffs on the chief and deputy chief of the emergencies services ministry The charges: corruption. See also: Gaming out...
Ukraine officials arrested in bribery case on live TV
Ukrainian police officers charged into a televised government meeting Wednesday and detained two top officials on suspicion of extorting bribes. …read more Source: CTV...
2 Ukraine Officials Arrested on Live TV During Gov’t Meeting
Ukrainian police officers charged into a televised government meeting Wednesday and detained two top officials on suspicion of extorting bribes. …read more Source:...
2 Ukraine Officials Arrested on Live TV During Gov’t Meeting
2 Ukraine emergency officials arrested in bribery case on live TV during Cabinet meeting …read more Source: ABC...
In Shattered Ukraine Town, Residents Rebuild Lives
Residents of Debaltseve in eastern Ukraine are starting to rebuild their lives after heavy fighting last month destroyed hundreds of buildings and forced many people to flee. Russian-backed separatists took control of the strategic town in February, days after a cease-fire agreement with Ukraine’s Kyiv government was signed. As Adam Bailes...
Ukraine Starts Cleaning Its Augean Stables
Ukraine appears to have taken some very deliberate, forceful, and very welcome steps towards fighting the corruption that has been at the heart of its state since independence. First, in a bid to end a dangerous standoff that had developed over the weekend, President Petro Poroshenko late last night fired upstart oligarch Igor Kolomoisky from his...
2 Ukraine officials arrested on live TV during gov’t meeting
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian police officers charged into a televised government meeting Wednesday and detained two top officials on suspicion of extorting bribes. The government in Ukraine has vowed to take firm action to stamp out rampant corruption and the highly public nature of the detentions appeared designed to convey the impression that...
