Section: Business Insider (USA)
Protesters block Russian embassy in Kiev on election day
(AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)MOSCOW (AP) — Complaints of election violations were increasing Sunday as Russians voted for a new national parliament. The voting for the 450 seats in the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, was not expected to substantially change the distribution of power, in which the pro-Kremlin United Russia party holds an...
German and French foreign ministers make first visit to war-torn east Ukraine
Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault arrived in Kramatorsk, a city controlled by the Ukrainian army. …read more Source: Business...
Obama says Vladimir Putin is Donald Trump’s role model: ‘He loves this guy’
AP Photo/Carolyn KasterPresident Barack Obama on Tuesday unleashed on Donald Trump’s positive statements about Russian President Vladimir Putin. During a rally supporting Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Obama called Putin “Donald Trump’s role model,” and slammed the Republican presidential nominee for...
Trump wants to make America great — by making it like Russia
AP Photo/Evan Vucci Wednesday night’s “Commander-in-Chief Forum,” presented by NBC News and MSNBC, was a debacle. Every network that’s hosting a presidential debate in the next seven weeks should study the video to learn how not to interrogate Donald Trump. But Trump still managed, through boastful indifference, to reveal the most...
15 incredible photos of Russia’s latest military exercise in annexed Crimea
It looks like they’re serious about staying. …read more Source: Business...
Emails show Trump advisers waged covert lobbying operation, never disclosed work as foreign agents
Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesWASHINGTON (AP) — A firm run by Donald Trump’s campaign chairman directly orchestrated a covert Washington lobbying operation on behalf of Ukraine’s then-ruling political party, attempting to sway American public opinion in favor of the country’s pro-Russian government, emails obtained by The...
Ukrainian prosecutor alleges Trump campaign chair encouraged Russia’s annexation of Crimea
The chairman of Donald Trump’s campaign is being accused of encouraging the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula. …read more Source: Business...
AP: Paul Manafort helped a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine secretly route at least $2.2M to DC lobbyists
The project was structured in ways that obscured the foreign party’s efforts to influence US policy. …read more Source: Business...
Extremely rare white lions were just born in a Ukrainian zoo
These newborn white lion cubs usually can’t be found in the wild. …read more Source: Business...
Ukraine says Russia has 40,000 troops amassed in Crimea with ‘very bad intentions’
“These numbers may reflect some very bad intentions and this is the last thing we would like to happen,” he told reporters. …read more Source: Business...
