Section: Newsweek (USA)
Russian Wine Prices Spike Amid Financial Crisis
Russia’s financial crisis continues to hit the alcohol industry hard, as wine prices are up by as much as 15 percent among some brands, exceeding winemakers’ bleak projections. Russia is caught in an economic recession brought on by an unstable ruble, volatile oil prices, and the effects of a ban on many Western food imports. Its...
Russian Wine Prices Spike Amid Financial Crisis
Russia’s financial crisis continues to hit the alcohol industry hard, as wine prices are up by as much as 15 percent among some brands, exceeding winemakers’ bleak projections. Russia is caught in an economic recession brought on by an unstable ruble, volatile oil prices, and the effects of a ban on many Western food imports. Its...
Crimean Tatar Council Relocates to Kiev After Russian Ban
The assembly of Crimea’s Muslim Tatar community is moving to Kiev, after Russian authorities officially declared it an “extremist organization.” The Mejlis of the Tatar community was officially set up as an executive body to represent the historic community in Crimea in the 1990s, when the peninsula emerged from the collapse of the Soviet...
Europe Needs ‘Active’ NATO to Halt ‘Moscow Menace’: Polish Foreign Minister
Poland’s Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski has urged NATO to be more active in the face of the “menace” posed by Russia, according to his article in politics journal Foreign Policy. Poland has been one of the strongest critics of Russian foreign policy since the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and it will host the next NATO summit in its...
Faces Of Chernobyl: Remembering The Tragedy
On 26 April 1986, one of the four reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear power station on the Ukraine-Belarus border (then part of the USSR) exploded during a routine systems test. The blast and subsequent fire that continued for 10 days discharged vast amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere at levels 300 times greater than Hiroshima. The...
Putin: Chernobyl Disaster Should Serve As a Lesson to the World
The Chernobyl disaster should serve as a “harsh lesson to humanity,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said. The meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear plant near the north Ukrainian town of Pripyat in 1986 caused what is still regarded as the worst civil nuclear disaster in history. Design flaws in the Soviet-made plant blew the top off its fourth...
Chernobyl at 30: Perilous Still
Exactly 30 years ago, there was an explosion in the Ukrainian countryside north of Kiev. In the nearby town of Pripyat, about 49,000 people slept. They lived here, in the thick forest on the Belarusian border, because they had been lured by jobs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Most people believed that working and living near a nuclear...
Chernobyl: Ukraine Marks 30th Anniversary of Nuclear Disaster
Ukraine held memorial services on Tuesday to mark the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which permanently poisoned swathes of eastern Europe and highlighted the shortcomings of the secretive Soviet system. In the early hours of April 26, 1986, a botched test at the nuclear plant in then-Soviet Ukraine triggered a meltdown that...
Obama, Merkel Reiterate Hope for Political Solution in Syria
U.S. President Barack Obama said during a visit to Germany on Sunday that he was “deeply concerned” about a surge in violence in Syria, where government forces have stepped up bombing of rebel-held areas around the strategic city of Aleppo. Speaking after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a 17th century palace near the...
Panama Raids Mossack Fonseca Office
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – Panamanian investigators on Friday raided a property used by Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the center of a massive leak of offshore financial data, an official from the local prosecutor’s office said. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a statement with more details would be sent in due...
