Section: Mashable (USA)
Ukrainian lawyer of Russian soldiers was kidnapped, robbed and shot to death
The body of a Ukrainian lawyer for one of two Russian servicemen on trial in Ukraine was discovered Friday south of the capital, Kiev. Officials said Yuri Grabovsky had been kidnapped, beaten, robbed, shot to death and then buried with an explosive device around his leg. Grabovsky was representing Alexander Alexandrov, who was captured along with...
Kerry, Putin talk Syria, Ukraine. But everyone wants to know: What’s in the briefcase?
United States Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Moscow on Wednesday to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on ending the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine. Kerry said he hoped the meetings would allow the countries to find a way to “rebuild and strengthen the relationship between the U.S....
Ukraine’s ‘Joan of Arc’ gets 22-year jail term after controversial Russian trial
A Russian court on Tuesday found captured Ukrainian fighter pilot Nadiya Savchenko guilty of complicity to murder two Russian state TV journalists in eastern Ukraine and sentenced her to 22 years in prison. The court’s decision threatens to further escalate already high tensions between Kiev and Moscow. However, it could possibly pave the...
Plane carrying dozens bursts into flames as it crashes near Russian airport
UPDATE: March 19, 2016, 11:15 a.m. GMT All 62 passengers and crew on a Boeing 737-800 passenger jet died when it crashed as it was trying to land at the Rostov-on-Don airport in southwestern Russia early Saturday local time. The Russian Ministry of Transport and the Southern Regional Emergency Center confirmed the crash of the FlyDubai airliner...
Putin’s surprise pullout from Syria doesn’t mean he’s gone for good
Mission accomplished. It was a hell of an exit, and a surprise one at that, when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his soldiers home from Syria on Monday, five months and 9,000 fighter jet sorties after entering the fray and changing the trajectory of the five-year-long war. (Some troops will stay behind to protect personnel at Russian...
Defiant Ukrainian pilot on trial in Russia flips judge the bird in court
In her final address to the court in southern Russia on Wednesday, jailed Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko didn’t mince words — she didn’t have to. Defying the Russian justice system, she leapt onto the bench inside her glass cage and raised her middle finger to the judge. “Here’s my final word!” she shouted...
Russia detains dozens of protestors demanding release of jailed Ukrainian pilot
Police in Moscow detained dozens of peaceful protesters demanding the release of jailed Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, as top U.S. officials added their voices to the growing chorus of Western leaders and diplomats calling on Russia set her free. Around 100 demonstrators gathered in Moscow on March 8, International Women’s Day, to demand...
Why America should worry about hackers taking out a power plant in Ukraine
Around 4 p.m. on Dec. 23, much of western Ukraine’s pastoral Ivano-Frankivsk region, an area about the size of Connecticut, was plunged into darkness The local electric utility in Ivano-Frankivsk acknowledged the blackout in a series of frantic messages posted on its website. Power had been lost across a vast area of the region and the...
Russia’s anti-Putin activists mark Nemtsov murder, amid threats and attacks
Thousands of people gathered in Moscow on Saturday to remember Boris Nemtsov, the Russian opposition leader and former prime minister who was gunned down by an assassin within sight of the Kremlin in Moscow on this day one year ago. Nemtsov, who was a staunch critic of President Vladimir Putin, was murdered on Feb. 27, 2015, as he walked with his...
What it looks like when Russians celebrate the Red Army
Defenders of the Fatherland Day was celebrated across much of the former Soviet Union this week. Started in 1919 to mark the founding of the Red Army, today the Feb. 23 holiday celebrates the USSR’s former glory and all things military. Though the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, some Soviet republics such as Belarus and Kyrgyzstan still...
