Section: US & Canada
Back In The U.S.S.R.: The Soviet Union In Color In 1963
Pretend you’re rummaging through an old steamer trunk in a dusty antique store somewhere. Inside the trunk, hidden amidst some old Frank Sinatra LPs and a stack of fading “National Geographic” magazines, you find a cardboard box. You open the box and discover a stack of photographic slides wrapped in a yellowed newspaper dating to 1963....
France Suspends Delivery of Warship to Russia
PARIS—France suspended the delivery of a warship to Russia on Tuesday, after months of speculation about what would be the biggest arms sale ever by a NATO country to the Kremlin. French President Francois Hollande’s office announced the suspension “until further notice” after growing pressure from allies due to tensions over Russia’s...
Ukraine Says More Russian Military In East
Ukraine has leveled fresh charges that Russia is sending military support to pro-Russian separatists in the east. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The case for bringing Ukraine into Europe early
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko intends to prepare his country for European Union and NATO membership within six years. Some of his fellow East Europeans who are already members of both organizations will actively encourage that ambition, while leaders of NATO and the EU will do their best to rain on Poroshenko’s parade. I think the...
News of the day from across the globe, Nov. 26
An apartment building in Egypt’s capital collapsed Tuesday, killing at least 19 people as rescuers and neighbors frantically dug through rubble with their hands to find survivors, authorities said. The collapse in Cairo’s eastern Matariya district highlights the longtime problem of shoddy construction across Egypt, as neighbors said...
French National Front Secures Funding From Russian Bank
Is Russian President Vladimir Putin meddling in the internal politics of countries in the European Union? That seemed a strong possibility to some Europeans this week, after French political leader Marine Le Pen confirmed she had secured a €9-million ($11.1 million) loan from a Moscow-based bank, in order to run her right-wing National Front...
Russian state media seizes propaganda opportunity in Ferguson
KIEV, Ukraine – Russia is trolling the U.S. hard over Ferguson. With fresh riots in the Missouri town after a grand jury’s decision not to indict the police officer who shot Michael Brown there in August, the Kremlin, its powerful state media machine and pro-Russian bloggers — never ones to let an opportunity pass in which they can...
France suspends delivery of warship to Russia
France pushed back indefinitely the delivery of a warship to Russia on Tuesday over Russia’s actions in Ukraine. …read more Source: New York Daily...
France suspends delivery of warship to Russia
France is suspending the planned delivery of a warship to Russia, citing eastern Ukraine’s “current situation”. …read more Source:...
Critics: UN Resolution on Nazism Too Restrictive on Rights
As Russia continues to deny military involvement in Ukraine, it appeared to be fighting an image war last week at the United Nations – in what has become an annual exercise in condemning Nazism and racism. For about a decade, the U.N. General Assembly committee that deals with human rights has voted each year on a Russian-drafted resolution...
