Section: US & Canada
Despite Denials, All Evidence For Deadly Explosion Points To Kyiv
A deadly explosion in Luhansk apparently has Ukrainian authorities searching for an explanation that doesn’t implicate them in the casualties. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio...
Report: Russia used Ukraine as waystation to arm Middle East
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Russia has been quietly arming Middle East militaries, including those deemed allies of the United States, a report said. The Center for Advanced Defense Studies has tracked numerous arms shipments from Russia and Ukraine to […] The post Report: Russia used Ukraine as waystation to arm Middle East appeared...
LifeNews Blames Right Sector, Conscripts For Luhansk Border Fighting
LifeNews — an Internet video service said to have ties to Russia’s security services and criticized as a Kremlin mouthpiece — frames a battle in eastern Ukraine in confounding terms. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio...
Russia’s sanctioned Rogozin denied travel through Ukraine air space
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com The government plane for Russia’s Deputy Premier Dmitry Rogozin was denied entry through the air space of Ukraine and Romania last week. Rogozin was on the sanction list of the United States and […] The post Russia’s sanctioned Rogozin denied travel through Ukraine air...
Russian TV Airs Old Footage In Fresh Ukraine Atrocity Claim
The footage of a corpse featured in a May 16 newscast by a Russian broadcaster appears to be identical to video material aired 18 months earlier in a report on an antiterrorist operation in Russia’s restive North Caucasus region. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio...
U.S. to help Ukraine recover billions from pro-Russian syndicate
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com “Ex-President Viktor Yanukovych headed a mafia structure in Ukraine that spread across different state structures,” Ukraine’s acting Prosecutor General Oleh Makhnitsky has charged. He further disclosed that Yanukovych’s mafia-like organization, syndicated nationwide, was...
Leadership of military observer mission in Ukraine to be taken over by Canada
Three Canadians will lead an Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) military observer mission in the central European country, according to a media report by Postmedia News. Citing Defence Minister Rob Nicholson Wednesday (April 30) Postmedia reports the three Canadians from the Directorate of Arms Control Verification will...
Politics Today – April 20, 2014
Listen On this edition of Politics Today RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda reviews statements by Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird about the situation in Ukraine. He talks about the shutdown of government websites because of a security threat from the “Heartbleed Bug”. And he reports on the slow...
Neo-Soviet chess: Ukraine checked in drama starring Russian aggressors as victims
UNITED NATIONS — The fate of Ukraine, one of Eastern Europe’s largest countries, hangs in the balance. On the one hand, ”spontaneous” political demonstrations and government building seizures by pro-Russian separatists, are bringing an air of deliberately planned disorder to […] The post Neo-Soviet chess: Ukraine checked in drama starring...
Canada’s PM Harper, FM Baird, on Ukraine and Russia’s ‘provocations’
Listen After a meeting with several East European ambassadors in Ottawa, Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird once again condemned Russia for its most recent actions in Ukraine. Reports of pro-Russian separatists taking over buildings in eastern Russia on the weekend fuelled more of the Canadian...
