Section: US & Canada
Russia calls for end to sanctions as EU targets Ukraine separatists
Moscow offers to lift ban on EU food imports …read more Source: The Globe and...
Ukraine faces coal shortage with rebels controlling mines
Kiev (AFP) – With the rich seams of coal in eastern Ukraine under rebel control and Russia cutting off supplies, the Kiev government faces the awkward prospect of turning to its enemies for help.As winter set in, the biggest fear in recent months was that Ukraine would run out of the natural gas that heats the country. A last minute deal...
EU Expands Sanctions On Ukraine Separatists
The European Union has imposed sanctions on separatist leaders who organized elections in eastern Ukraine this month, hitting individuals and organizations with asset freezes and travel bans. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia’s Freest Website Lives in Europe
Moscow-based Editor in Chief Galina Timchenko was fired for ‘extremism’ after running an article on Ukraine. So she and her staff packed up shop and moved west. …read more Source: The Daily...
National Post editorial board: Keep Ukraine warm
This week, just as winter approaches, Russia suspended shipments of coal to Ukraine. Supplies had already been disrupted by Russian-backed insurgent activity in Ukraine’s eastern regions, which have fallen victim to a slow-motion Russian invasion in recent months. But the suspension of coal has taken an already acute problem and made it...
Ukraine: EU Imposes Sanctions On Rebel Election Organizers
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union has imposed sanctions on the organizers of rebel elections in eastern Ukraine this month, the bloc said on Saturday, hitting the separatists and their organizations with asset freezes and travel bans. As reported by Reuters on Thursday, EU governments decided to add 13 Ukrainian separatists and five...
Brown Bears Return To Chornobyl
Scientists have captured what is said to be the first photographic evidence of brown bears within the Chornobyl exclusion zone in northern Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Crimea is becoming more Russian — and less hospitable to minorities
Eight months after the Russian annexation of the region, Ukrainians and other minorities are struggling to survive, as their schools, newspapers and jobs vanish. …read more Source: Toronto...
Watch: What Chernobyl looks like now — from a drone
The area around Ukraine’s Chernobyl power plant, site of one of the world’s most horrifying nuclear disasters, is the subject of endless fascination. Increasingly, adventurous tourists and scientists have come to the site, which was abandoned after a reactor in the Soviet facility exploded in 1986. Cloaked in both the trauma and the...
Donetsk shelling victim: my wish is to “go to Kiev and to kill them all”
Shelling kills at least two near Ukraine’s Donetsk international airport with residents voicing despair. Gavino Garay reports. Video provided by Reuters …read more Source: USA...
