Section: US & Canada
Russia’s Putin urges release of Ukrainian soldiers
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Friday called on pro-Russian separatists fighting government troops in eastern Ukraine to release Ukrainian soldiers who have been surrounded by the rebels. …read more Source: Miami...
Russia’s president Putin calls on separatists to release Ukrainian soldiers taken prisoner
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has called on pro-Russian separatists fighting government troops in eastern Ukraine to release Ukrainian soldiers they took prisoner and allow them to return home. …read more Source: FOX...
NATO To Discuss Ukraine Crisis
NATO officials meet August 29 in Brussels to discuss the crisis in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia sends tanks, troops into eastern Ukraine
KIEV, Ukraine — Russian tanks and troops fired their way into eastern Ukraine on Thursday and seized a strategic gateway town on the road to the heavily militarized Crimean peninsula in a brazen display of support for pro-Russia separatists fighting Ukrainian government troops. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
Ukraine: Russia has invaded
Ukraine accused Russia yesterday of entering its territory with tanks, artillery and troops, an assertion quickly endorsed by President Obama, who said he believes Russian troops are threatening the nation’s sovereignty even as he ruled out military action, saying it was “not in the cards.”“Russia is responsible for the violence in eastern...
Nikkei Slips After Japan Data
Japanese stocks fell as investors digested domestic economic data after the latest Russia-Ukraine tensions pushed the U.S. market lower overnight. …read more Source: The Wall Street...
Obama rules out military response to Russian moves in Ukraine
President Obama rebuffed pressure for quick U.S. action in two foreign crises Thursday, declining to label Russia’s military moves into Ukraine an invasion and saying that he was not ready to expand an air campaign against Islamist militants to Syria. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Hacker Attacks on American Banks Look More Like Fraud Than Russian Cyber War
Subtlety has never been the strong suit of Russia’s hacker-patriots. In 2008, during the Russian invasion of Georgia, they managed to hijack or disable all the key websites of the Georgian government, plastering one of them with images of Adolf Hitler. The year before that, during Russia’s diplomatic spat with Estonia over a Soviet...
Russia replies to Canada’s colorful map tweet
It began with Canada tweeting some not-so-friendly travel tips for the Russian military: a map showing Russia and labeling Ukraine as “not Russia.” …read more Source: Miami...
Russia replies to Canada’s colorful map tweet
TORONTO (AP) — It began with Canada tweeting some not-so-friendly travel tips for the Russian military: a map showing Russia and labeling Ukraine as “not Russia.” …read more Source: The Bismarck...
