Section: US & Canada
After Detention And Torture, Donetsk Artist’s Work Turns Grim
The Donetsk street artist best known for his satirical depiction of a suicidal separatist commander is now working on a more serious comic book based on his time as a captive of pro-Russian separatists. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russian Rights Ombudsperson Slams EU Over Ukraine Silence
Russia’s human rights ombudsperson has sharply criticized the European Union for “ignoring human suffering” in eastern Ukraine. Ella Pamfilova said in an interview published by “Rossiiskaya gazeta” on October 20 that although Europe is “an icon in the style of human rights, democracy, and freedom of...
Moscow Activists To Protest Savchenko Treatment
By RFE/RL A group of Russian human rights activists plans to protest against the trial of Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, who was captured in eastern Ukraine and was brought to Russia to face charges of participating in the killing of two Russian journalists. The protest on October 20, which will take the form of a series of one-person...
Expelled Nazis Paid Millions In Social Security
OSIJEK, Croatia (AP) — Former Auschwitz guard Jakob Denzinger lived the American dream. His plastics company in the Rust Belt town of Akron, Ohio, thrived. By the late 1980s, he had acquired the trappings of success: a Cadillac DeVille and a Lincoln Town Car, a lakefront home, investments in oil and real estate. Then the Nazi hunters showed up....
Ukraine, Russia agree on winter natural gas supply
Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko said Russia will supply his country with gas through March …read more Source:...
The airport here in this battle-scarred region of eastern Ukraine seems oblivious to the cease-fire brokered just six weeks ago.
USA Today’s Oren Dorell talks with Cmdr. Mikhael “Givi” Sergeyevich Tolstikh who says his forces will “hold the line” against Ukrainian forces whom he claimed were preparing an assault to retake the facility. …read more Source: USA...
‘Smart Sanctions’ on Russia Still Cause Collateral Damage
Owned by Sberbank of Russia, Denizbank became an unintended casualty in the geopolitical conflict between Moscow and the West over the crisis in Ukraine. …read more Source: The Wall Street...
World War 3: Vladimir Putin Threatens West with Russia’s 5,000 Nuclear Weapons
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has threatened the West with his country’s 5,000 nuclear warheads. Putin has raised the specter of nuclear war for the third time in the past two months as he and Western countries such as the United States clash over the Ukraine conflict, which has been bringing to light other deep-seated animosity....
Russia, Ukraine Edge Closer to Gas Deal
Russia and Ukraine have agreed a price for winter gas supplies, officials from both countries said, moving closer to a deal that would ease concerns that the countries’ dispute could disrupt supplies to Europe via Ukraine. …read more Source: The Wall Street...
Russia Agrees to Supply Gas for Ukraine as Winter Approaches
KIEV, Ukraine—The Ukrainian president has said his country has reached an agreement with Russia on supplies of natural gas for the winter. When Russia cut off gas supplies to Ukraine in June over unpaid bills, it raised the risk that Ukraine would be left without heating during the coldest months of the year. It also raised fears that Russia...
