Section: US & Canada
OSCE and NATO Warn Over Ukraine
The OSCE and NATO have issued more stark warnings about the risk of a return to all-out conflict in eastern Ukraine, as David Stern reports. …read more Source: The Boston...
Ukrainian Army Pilot Nadezhda Savchenko Appears in Moscow Court
A Ukrainian army pilot was paraded in front of the media Tuesday before appearing in a Moscow court, where she could face charges of illegally crossing the border into Russia. Nadezhda Savchenko was seized by pro-Russian separatists in June. She was fighting on the ground for a pro-Kiev militia near Luhansk on the border with Russia. During her...
MH17 Families Ask, Where Are The Bodies? Little To Show 4 Months Later
(Reuters) — Daisy Oehlers and Bryce Fredriksz, a Dutch couple in their early 20s, were sitting near the left wing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on their way to a holiday in Bali when “high-energy objects” — as officials later called them — struck the plane over eastern Ukraine. Their bodies were torn apart and scattered...
Russia’s Vulnerability to the EU
Photo by Remy Steinegger Introduction The US-EU sponsored coup in the Ukraine and its conversion from a stable Russian trading partner to a devastated EU economic client and NATO launch pad, as well as the subsequent economic sanctions against Russia for supporting the Russian ethnic majority in the Donbas region and Crimea, illustrate the...
No New Economic Sanctions on Russia as Cease-Fire in Ukraine Collapsing
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Ukraine Digs In to Keep Airport From Rebels
Two months into a truce with Russia-backed rebels, fighting still rages in eastern Ukraine, especially around an airport that is the last piece of territory in government hands in the regional capital of Donetsk. …read more Source: The Wall Street...
Ukraine’s hryvnia hits new all-time low
Ukraine’s central bank said the average rate set at a daily dollar auction was 15.8817 hryvnia per $1, a fresh all-time low. …read more Source:...
Dutch investigators collect remains at MH17 crash site
Dutch investigators collect remains at the site of the Malaysia Airlines crash in eastern Ukraine to send to the Netherlands. Nathan Frandino reports. Video provided by Reuters …read more Source: USA...
Russia adding major firepower in Crimea, NATO chief says
Annexed Ukrainian territory seeing influx of Russian military personnel and hardware, according to NATO intel …read more Source:...
The Sino-Russia Partnership Is Stronger Than the West Thinks
WASHINGTON — Some American pundits are calling for new overtures by the West that would distance China from Russia. In Japan, voices are urging the government to step up diplomacy with Russia to draw it away from China. In these appeals we can discern an assumption that divergent national interests leave either Moscow or Beijing susceptible...
