Section: US & Canada
Nemtsov’s murder reveals the rotten core of Putin’s propaganda war
Six years ago I wrote an article for Prospect Magazine in which I argued that Vladimir Putin was highly unlikely to seek a return to the Russian presidency in 2012. It was an article that expressed my hope at the time that the incremental changes the country was seeing under then-president Dmitry Medvedev and the “reset” policy being...
U.N.: 6,000 killed thus far in Ukraine conflict
Ed AdamczykUNITED NATIONS, March 2 (UPI) — Over 6,000 people have been killed since April 2014 in the Ukraine conflict, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights reported Monday. …read more Source: United Press...
Kerry decries ‘unbalanced focus’ on Israel in UNHCR
(JTA) — There is an “unbalanced focus” on Israel by the United Nations Human Rights Council, John Kerry told its members “No one in this room can deny that there is an unbalanced focus on one democratic country,” Kerry said in an address to the council on Monday in Geneva. “It must be said the HRC’s obsession with Israel actually risks...
Ukraine Natural Gas Deal: Russia Violates Agreement, Says Ukraine’s Naftogaz
Ukraine’s natural gas and oil firm Naftogaz accused Russia’s Gazprom Monday of failing to uphold an agreement signed last year to supply Ukraine with gas over the winter months ahead of a planned meeting between the countries’ energy ministers in Brussels to work out a compromise over deliveries. Last week, Gazprom threatened to...
Estonian PM aims for coalition talks to create new govt
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JXK returns to shale work in Ukraine
Daniel J. GraeberLONDON, March 2 (UPI) — Ukrainian shale pioneer JXK Oil & Gas said Monday it returned to full-scale operations in the country after receiving approval from the state gas distributor. …read more Source: United Press...
Tens of Thousands March to Protest Killing of Putin Critic
Tens of thousands of Russians took to the streets of Moscow and St. Petersburg on Sunday carrying pictures of the murdered politician Boris Nemtsov and placards reading “I am not afraid.” In Moscow, as the crowd approached the Kremlin, it chanted “Russia without Putin,” and “Putin, leave!” according to the BBC. Boris Nemtsov, a former deputy...
Kelly McParland: Nemtsov’s murder is the logical result of Putin’s disregard for life or laws
It’s possible that Vladimir Putin didn’t order the murder of Boris Nemtsov, a political opponent and one of his most prominent critics. Even for a leader as proudly thuggish as Mr. Putin, it would be quite a step to have an opponent gunned down Mafia style while walking on a bridge near the Kremlin. Still, no one’s going to...
China state media seen stepping-up anti-Western rhetoric
BEIJING (AP) — Western values are a “ticket to hell,” a newspaper published by China’s Communist Party said in a recent editorial that held up Ukraine and some Arab countries as examples of outside ideas causing turmoil. It was the latest colorful example of a rising level of invective targeting critics of the authoritarian government. In...
China state media seen stepping-up anti-Western rhetoric
BEIJING (AP) — Western values are a “ticket to hell,” a newspaper published by China’s Communist Party said in a recent editorial that held up Ukraine and some Arab countries as examples of outside ideas causing turmoil. It was the latest colorful example of a rising level of invective targeting critics of the authoritarian government. In...
