Section: Mashable (USA)
Eritrea and North Korea top list of world’s ‘most censored’ countries
A small country in the Horn of Africa was named the world’s most censored place on Tuesday, beating out North Korea for the title in a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Eritrea, a country slightly larger than Pennsylvania that borders the Red Sea, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Sudan, is no stranger to the media watchdogs, having...
Ask him (almost) anything: Putin on Ukraine, murder and milk
In what has become a yearly tradition, Vladimir Putin took questions from Russians in an hours-long, wide-ranging call-in show that touched on the conflict in Ukraine, the murder of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov, Russia’s sale of missiles to Iran and the price of milk. See also: Vladimir Putin’s Distorted Reality Putin flatly denied...
After war, Ukraine’s soldiers face a fight with an internal enemy
KIEV, Ukraine — Officer Sergei Yatchenko pulls closed the curtains in his cluttered bedroom, sits at his desk, pours himself a drink, takes a deep breath and squeezes his eyes shut. It’s quiet here, far away from the bloody front lines of the war in eastern Ukraine, now in its second year But it’s not peaceful. Not for Yatchenko. See...
Shakhtar Donetsk: Ukraine’s greatest soccer club now plays in exile
LVIV, Ukraine — As the ball strikes the back of the goal, the crowd erupts. But not with its usual flare There are no fireworks, no orange smoke. No anthems are sung. See also: Ukraine’s nameless dead ‘would take forever to count’ In this 35,000-seat stadium on March 14, the mere 2,000 people who are here to watch the Donetsk...
‘I kill if I want to’: Russian rebel commander says he shot dead 15 Ukrainian POWs
A Russian commander in the Kremlin-backed separatist battalion in eastern Ukraine claims to have shot dead 15 Ukrainian soldiers taken captive by his fighters Meanwhile, Amnesty International discovered evidence of summary killings of Ukrainian soldiers at the hands of separatists. See also: Ukraine’s nameless dead ‘would take forever...
Russian bomb squad clears mines on the front lines of eastern Ukraine
DEBALTSEVE, Ukraine — They say they feel fear but you wouldn’t know it by watching them handle the explosives. See also: Ukraine’s children of war The members of this bomb squad — mostly Russian Cossacks — don’t use blast suits or special equipment. Instead they rely on steady hands, common household pliers and uncommon nerves...
Ukraine is banning films and TV shows that glorify Russia’s military
KIEV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed into law a new measure banning Russian films and television shows that glorify the country’s military on Thursday. The law, which was passed by Ukraine’s parliament on Feb. 5 before being sent to Poroshenko for his signature, bans films and television shows made beginning in...
MH17 investigators say Buk rocket strike is primary theory in downing
KIEV, Ukraine — Nine months after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine, an international team investigating the incident says its primary theory is that the passenger jet was downed by a sophisticated surface-to-air Buk missile fired from Russia-backed separatist territory All 298 people aboard the Boeing 777 flight from...
Ukraine’s children of war
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Drama as Ukraine arrests officials suspected of corruption on live TV
DONETSK, Ukraine — They were arrested on live television. Ukrainian police walked into a nationally televised meeting of the country’s cabinet of ministers in Kiev on Wednesday, and with cameras rolling, slapped cuffs on the chief and deputy chief of the emergencies services ministry The charges: corruption. See also: Gaming out...
