Section: US & Canada
Ukraine Rebels Release Captured OSCE Monitors
Pro-Russian separatists in southeast Ukraine released four out of eight monitors from the Organization for the Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) captured over a month ago. Four observers from Switzerland, Turkey, Estonia, and Denmark were brought by heavily armed rebels early June 27 to a hotel in downtown Donetsk, where they were handed...
Ukrainian leader: Talks to continue
New Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told CNN in an exclusive interview that negotiations with Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine would continue. …read more Source:...
Ukraine rebels free 4 OSCE hostages, 4 still in captivity
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US: Further Sanctions on Russia are ‘Ready’
The United States says it is fully prepared to impose further sanctions should Russia fail to call on pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine to disarm. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry did not mince words Thursday after meeting with his French counterpart Laurent Fabius in Paris. With an eye to a cease-fire that expires on Friday, Kerry was clear...
Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia To Sign EU Accords
Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova are due to take a big step toward the West and away from Moscow on June 26 when they sign key accords with the European Union in Brussels. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
OSCE Observers Freed In Ukraine
Four monitors for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe who were abducted in May by pro-Russian gunmen in eastern Ukraine have been freed. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Interview: Ukraine FM Says Russia Has No Prospects in Crimea
Questioning the viability of long-term political and economic goals Russia has set for itself in Crimea, Ukraine’s new foreign minister says that Moscow has no chance of implementing them on the annexed peninsula. In an interview with Austria’s daily Die Presse, Pavlo Klimkin said the two countries will have to find common ground on...
To Russia With Love: Muscovites Flock to James Bond Show
During the Soviet era, watching a James Bond film could lead to a jail sentence. Despite the ban, many were able to catch bootleg copies during the thawing of the Cold War in the 1980s. This developed into a Russian love affair with the foreign agent. In 1964, when the James Bond movie From Russia With Love was packing theaters in the United...
Ukraine’s Crisis In Internet Memes
The crisis in Ukraine has spawned a steady stream of Internet memes, some lighthearted, others biting, all deeply political. Here are some of the most popular. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukrainian Filmmaker Remains Behind Bars Despite Growing Support
The Russian human rights organization Memorial on June 25 offered a rare showing of “Gaamer,” the award-winning 2011 film by up-and-coming Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov. Sentsov, meanwhile, remains in Moscow’s Lefortovo prison, where he is being detained on suspicion of terrorist plotting in his native Crimea. …read more...
