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The noose around Russian journalists is tightening
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Alexei Venediktov, one of Russia’s most prominent journalists, does not go out without a bodyguard and does not answer mobile phone calls for fear of being tracked. He has worried about security since someone left a chopping block with an axe in it outside his apartment in 2009 and he fled Russia for a week this...
Russia is doing everything it can to prevent a tribunal over downed flight MH17
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council draft resolution on Wednesday that would have set up an international tribunal to prosecute those suspected of downing a Malaysia Airlines passenger airliner last year in eastern Ukraine. Eleven countries on the 15-member council voted in favor of the proposal by...
Vladimir Putin is suffocating his own nation
In the tumult and uncertainty that marked Russia after the Soviet Union imploded, when the state was weak and many institutions tottering, a vital lifeline was extended from the West. The U.S. government, as well as foundations and philanthropies, responded generously. The financier George Soros, through his Open Society Foundations, provided...
REPORT: Investigators believe newly found aircraft debris was likely the same model as MH370
An unnamed US official told the Associated Press that aircraft wreckage found on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean this week likely came from a Boeing 777 — the same type of aircraft as Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. According to the AP’s Joan Lowy and Lori Hinnant, the official said that air safety investigators have a “high degree...
Mysterious plane wreckage sparks MH370 speculation
Saint-André (France) (AFP) – A mysterious piece of plane debris washed up on the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion on Wednesday, prompting some speculation it could be part of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.The two-metre (six-foot) long piece of wreckage, which seemed to be part of a wing, was found by people cleaning up...
Putin says he opposes the creation of a tribunal to prosecute those who shot down MH17
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he opposed the creation of an international tribunal to prosecute those who shot down a Malaysian airliner over eastern Ukraine, hours before a U.N. vote on such a proposal. Putin’s comment was the latest to indicate Russia may block moves at the United Nations,...
Ukraine’s maverick battalions are becoming a problem
(Reuters) – From a basement billiard club in central Kiev, Dmytro Korchynsky commands a volunteer battalion helping Ukraine’s government fight rebels in the east. A burly man with a long, Cossack-style moustache, Korchynsky has several hundred armed men at his disposal. The exact number, he said, is “classified.” In the...
Many in Russia think a major political turning point is coming
Russia’s newest anti-NGO law, under which the National Endowment for Democracy on Tuesday was declared an “undesirable organization” prohibited from operating in Russia, is the latest evidence that the regime of President Vladimir Putin faces a worsening crisis of political legitimacy. Putin may claim that the National Endowment...
Putin is suffocating his own nation
In the tumult and uncertainty that marked Russia after the Soviet Union imploded, when the state was weak and many institutions tottering, a vital lifeline was extended from the West. The US government, as well as foundations and philanthropies, responded generously. The financier George Soros, through his Open Society Foundations, provided small...
Here’s everything coming to Netflix in August
Surprise, July is just about over! Wasn’t that fast? Don’t despair though, a new month means new titles on Netflix — all the better to distract yourself from the knowledge that you only have a few more weeks of summer left. That includes Oscar-winners like “The Hurt Locker”, a new season of “Doctor Who”, and...
