Section: US & Canada
Future of Former Ukraine President’s Estate Remains Uncertain
More than six months after Ukraine’s former President Viktor Yanukovych fled revolution to Russia, authorities have yet to gain control of his palatial estate. Protesters have occupied the grounds and opened it to tourists, but they are also refusing to turn it over to the state. VOA’s Daniel Schearf reports from Mezhigirya, north of...
Russia Urges Calm as Currency Continues Plunge
Moscow urged the Russian public not to panic Tuesday, as its battered currency, the ruble, plunged to an all-time low against the U.S. dollar. The national currency fell below 38 rubles per dollar amid investor worries about the impact of new Western sanctions aimed at punishing Moscow for its role in the Ukraine crisis. Deputy Russian Finance...
Q&A: Ukraine’s Donbas Battalion Commander Seeks US Support
The commander of Ukraine’s famed Donbas Battalion, Semen Semenchenko, is in Washington this week to lobby U.S. officials for stepped-up non-lethal aid and possible West Point training for his men. Semenchenko, who was recently wounded during an attack on the eastern city of Ilovaysk and walks with a cane, arrived just ahead of Ukrainian...
5774: For Europe’s Jews, a year of upheaval and uncertainty
Clockwise from top left, supporters of Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party (Getty); French Jews fighting pro-Palestinian rioters on a Paris street (Via YouTube); Jewish refugees from Eastern Ukraine (Cnaan Liphshiz); in Sarcelles, France, pro-Palestinian rioters broke shop windows and set fires in July. (Cnaan Liphshiz) THE HAGUE,...
75 years on, Polish brothers relive Soviet invasion
Warsaw (AFP) – The Soviets rode in on horseback, rifles dangling on rope. Boguslaw Kamola watched in horror from the woods as they occupied his city in eastern Poland. Then the shots rang out.”This dog was dashing across the field, and one of the soldiers reached for his rifle and fired at him,” he recalls. “They...
Thanks To Putin, Space Travel Is About American Prestige Again
On Tuesday afternoon, NASA administrator Charlie Bolden announced that SpaceX and Boeing would be testing a manned spacecraft by the end of the year, a vehicle capable of delivering humans to the International Space Station or any other point within low-earth orbit. SpaceX’s Dragon 2, or Boeing’s CST-100, would be the first...
Pussy Riot Comes to Harvard and Gets an Incomplete
Two members of the Russian protest/music group Pussy Riot came to the Harvard campus Monday night to describe their thinking behind the movement that captured the world’s attention. The panel discussion at the JFK Jr. Forum at the Harvard School of Government drew a packed house of more than 150 Harvard students and faculty to see the women...
Canadians won’t know cost of Ukraine mission until 2015
Taxpayers will have to wait until next year before they find out how much Canada’s military contribution to deal with the crisis in Ukraine is costing them. Figures will not be available until the end of March, 2105, almost a year after the first military units were sent overseas, according to the Canadian Forces. Even estimates of what it...
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Ukrainian Parliament Member Tossed In Trash Bin By Angry Protesters [VIDEO]
A Ukrainian member of the Verkhovna Rada, or Parliament, was thrown into a garbage bin Tuesday by angry protesters upset about his connections to former President Viktor Yanukovych. Vitaliy Zhuravskiy is a deputy in the Rada and a member of Yanukovych’s Party of Regions. The Rada approved a bill Tuesday that would throw out all of...
Group Jewish wedding held in eastern Ukraine
Liliya Menasheva Sadovski and Kim Boruchovitch were among 19 couples wed in Jewish ceremonies in Dnepropetrovsk’s Menora Center, Sept. 14, 2014. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Dnepropetrovsk) (JTA) — The Jewish community of Dnepropetrovsk in eastern Ukraine held a group wedding for 19 Jewish couples. Most of the couples that wed...
