Section: US & Canada
Putin Says He Is Considering Retaliation Against ‘Strange’ Western Sanctions
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he is weighing the response to a new round of sanctions from the West. The EU and US tightened economic penalties on Moscow, accusing it of sending troops to back pro-Russian separatists fighting Ukrainian government forces in eastern Ukraine. Putin, who regularly denies any involvement and already responded...
EU toughens sanctions against Russia
The European Union tightened sanctions on Russia on Friday over its role in the Ukrainian conflict, restricting access to financing for top Russian banks, defense and energy firms and freezing the assets of senior politicians and rebel leaders. …read more Source: New York Daily...
Second Russian Aid Convoy Reaches Ukrainian Border
The first 35 vehicles in a second Russian aid convoy headed to areas in separatist-held eastern Ukraine have cleared the Russian customs checkpoint. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine, rebels trade 67 prisoners in peace deal
In the dead of night, Ukrainian troops and Russian-backed rebel forces on Friday exchanged 67 prisoners who had been captured during fighting in eastern Ukraine, part of a cease-fire deal that has struggled to succeed. The transfer, including Russian citizens who served as insurgents, took place outside the main rebel stronghold of Donetsk under...
U.S., European Union target Russian energy sector with new sanctions
In a marked escalation of their sanctions campaign against Russia, the United States and the European Union hit the Kremlin on Friday with new penalties for its actions in Ukraine, targeting favored financial, energy and defense businesses. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
The Saturday Profile: Detained, Beaten and Tortured by Separatists in Donetsk Ordeal
Alexandr, 49, who lives in Donetsk, the capital city of Ukraine’s separatist movement, was eventually taken to a hospital when abductors realized they might have the wrong man. …read more Source: The New York...
Putin says he is considering retaliation
Russian President Putin calls new Western sanctions “strange,” warns of fresh retaliation and accuses West of disrupting peace process in Ukraine. Video provided by Reuters …read more Source: USA...
Scotland’s Democratic Revolution
These are grim times for liberal democracy. Ukrainians ousted their pro-Russian president after months of demonstrations in February, only to see their country dismembered by Moscow’s first major military intervention in Eastern Europe since the Prague Spring in 1968. In July, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, emulating Russia’s...
US, EU levy sanctions on Russia despite cease-fire
WASHINGTON (AP) – Unsatisfied with a fragile cease-fire in Ukraine, the United States and the European Union levied new sanctions Friday against major Russian banks and defense companies, as well as penalties aimed at curtailing Russia’s ability to develop oil and gas projects. But the restrictions on Russia’s …...
Ukraine president: no military solution to conflict with Russia
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Friday that there was no military solution to his country’s conflict with Russia and that Ukraine needed European economic and political support to help avoid an escalation. …read more Source: FOX...
