Section: US & Canada
President of Belarus inaugurated despite disputed election
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus has assumed his sixth term of office in an inauguration ceremony that wasn’t announced in advance. State news agency Beltra reported that Wednesday’s ceremony is taking place in the capital of Minsk, with several hundred top government official present. It comes after six...
Wracked by American Sanctions, Russia Cuts Defense Spending
For the first time since 2014, Russia will spend more on resuscitating its economy than on funding its military as it suffers an economic nosedive precipitated by Western sanctions, the Financial Times reported Monday. Russia’s recently announced budget will cut defense spending by 5 percent and boost spending on social programs by 10...
Rights group: Dozens in Belarus investigated amid protests
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities in Belarus, that’s seen six weeks of protests against the country’s authoritarian president after a disputed election, have opened more than 250 criminal cases that target political opponents, activists and protesters, a Belarusian human rights group said Tuesday. Dozens of people, according to the...
Ukrainian Pipeline Explosion Has Implications for Nord Stream 2
KIEV, Ukraine—Shortly past midnight on Sept. 15, a part of the Kiev-Western Ukraine-1 natural gas transit line exploded. The site pumps natural gas from Russia across Ukraine to underground storage facilities near the border with the EU. The fact that Russian gas must cross Ukraine before it reaches customer nations in the EU has long been a sore...
EU Urges Ukraine To Work ‘Constructively’ With IMF To Unlock Brussels Aid
The European Union’s top diplomat said on September 22 that Kyiv needs to work “constructively” with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to secure EU aid to cope with the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Is This How Biden Blows It?
Last weekend, Philippe Reines walked over to Ron Klain’s house in Washington, D.C., to hand off his Donald Trump outfit: the suit, the shoes with the lifts, the shirt, the long red tie, the cufflinks. Just in case. When the former Hillary Clinton aide stored the outfit in a bag after playing Trump in debate prep four years ago, a part of...
‘Agents of Chaos’ Breaks Down Exactly How Russia Helped Give Us Trump
Courtesy of HBOWe’re so inundated with evidence of Donald Trump’s fascistic villainy—these days, largely related at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Fact-Checking New York Times Fact Checker on BLM’s China Links
The New York Times covered for communists in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, when it denied the genocide in Ukraine. The Times covered again for communists in Cuba in the 1950s, when it reported that the rebels were democrats. And the newspaper appears to be doing the same in America today by covering for the all-too-obvious Marxist roots of the...
Police detain over 400 during Sunday protests in Belarus
KYIV, Ukraine — Police in Belarus said they detained more than 400 protesters who took part in a weekend demonstration demanding the resignation of the nation’s authoritarian president following a disputed vote. With protests rocking the country for more than six weeks, tens of thousands of Belarusians marched through Minsk, the capital, on...
Police detain over 400 during Sunday protests in Belarus
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Police in Belarus said they detained more than 400 protesters who took part in a weekend demonstration demanding the resignation of the nation’s authoritarian president following a disputed vote. With protests rocking the country for more than six weeks, tens of thousands of Belarusians marched through Minsk, the...
