Section: US & Canada
The Daily Vertical: Will Ukraine Be Bosniafied?
The Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that will appear Monday through Friday. Viewers can submit suggested topics to address on Twitter @PowerVertical or on the Power Vertical Facebook page. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia’s oil industry is getting ‘crushed’
The combination of low oil prices and international economic sanctions have thrown Russia’s oil industry into chaos. Oil production in the country was expected to exceed 11 million barrels a day by 2019 but is now expected to fall to below 10.5 million barrels over the next five years, according to a new report from the International Energy...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko: Further Fighting Will Lead to Martial Law
President Petro Poroshenko said on Wednesday that Ukraine was prepared to introduce martial law nationwide if the separatist conflict in the east escalates further, news agency Interfax reported. …read more Source:...
10 Things to Know for Today
By The Associated Press read more …read more Source: CNS...
Deadly fighting mars Ukraine's final push for peace
Kiev said 19 of its soldiers were killed in a day of pro-Russian separatist assaults …read more Source: The Globe and...
What’s at stake as Putin, Poroshenko meet in Minsk to talk peace
KIEV, Ukraine – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, will give peace a chance one more time when they meet in Minsk late Wednesday to discuss bringing an end to the war in eastern Ukraine. More than 5,300 people have been killed over the course of the 10-month-long conflict, and over one million people...
Death toll rises in Ukraine ahead of reported cease-fire talks
Shelling rocked a bus station in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk Wednesday as fighting continued to rage in eastern Ukraine ahead of crucial peace talks later in the day. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Ukraine fighting continues ahead of peace talks
Shelling rocked a bus station in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk Wednesday as fighting continued to rage in eastern Ukraine ahead of crucial peace talks later in the day. …read more Source:...
Forlorn Ukraine city: Death comes calling from the skies
Debaltseve is a ghost town. …read more Source:...
Leaders gather in Minsk for Ukraine crisis summit
All eyes were on Minsk, Belarus, on Wednesday as officials from Russia, Ukraine and separatist groups met to hammer out proposals for a possible peace deal for Ukraine. …read more Source:...
