Section: Newsweek (USA)
Captured Ukrainian Pilot ‘Wants to Die’
Nadiya Savchenko, the Ukrainian army officer and pilot who was captured in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and spirited to prison in Moscow, may die in captivity there on the hunger strike she has pursued for 45 days, her lawyer wrote on January 26. As her attorney, Mark Feygin, urged Russian President Vladimir Putin in a letter to release...
Fun With Conspiracy Theories: Was the Chernobyl Disaster a CYA Move to Hide Something Even Worse?
Dormant for a decade and a half, the Russian Woodpecker appeared to return in December 2013. Once, the notorious tapping of the massive Soviet over-the-horizon radar had frustrated and puzzled Western radio operators, who could discern neither the origin nor purpose of the strange signal. It was coming from somewhere behind the Iron Curtain; its...
Remembering the Holocaust, Seven Decades Later
Tuesday marks 70 years since the Soviet Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp complex in 1945. A decade ago, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution that designated the anniversary of that day as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Around 300 survivors participated in a commemoration ceremony at the site of the...
Opposition Leader Navalny Calls For ‘Anti-Crisis’ Protests in Moscow
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has responded to a Moscow court’s refusal today to shorten his house arrest by organising what he called an ‘anti-crisis’ protest against Russian President Vladimir Putin, echoing language used against the financial crisis and subsequent austerity measures in southern Europe. “Putin and his government...
Poland’s Jewish Culture Rises From the Ashes of Persecution
Paweł Bramson grew up in a white, Catholic country, and he liked it that way. As a teenager in Warsaw, he despised the rare Arab and African immigrants who were starting to settle in Poland in the 1990s. He and his friends, their heads shaved to the skin, used to chase them around, sometimes beating them up. Once, they threw burning objects...
EU Agrees €1.8 Billion For Ukraine
EU finance ministers agreed on Tuesday to loan Ukraine 1.8 billion euros ($2.0 billion) to help save it from bankruptcy, leaving open the option of increasing aid at a later stage. Diplomats at the meeting in Brussels said several European governments including Britain pushed for as much as 2.6 billion euros in medium-term loans for this year and...
Nine Ukrainian Soldiers Killed in ‘Tense’ Clashes With Eastern Rebels
Nine Ukrainian servicemen have been killed in fighting Russian-backed separatists in the past 24 hours, the Kiev military said on Tuesday, as rebels fought to encircle a key town straddling transport routes between their two strongholds. Violence in eastern Ukraine is at by far its worst since a ceasefire was agreed last September and Ukraine and...
Long-Awaited Litvinenko Inquiry To Begin in London
LONDON (Reuters) – A long-awaited public inquiry into the death of Alexander Litvinenko begins in London on Tuesday, nine years after the former KGB spy died after drinking tea poisoned with a rare radioactive isotope in the British capital. From his deathbed, Kremlin-critic Litvinenko, who had been granted British citizenship, accused...
Auschwitz Ceremony Marks 70 Years Since Liberation
Survivors of Auschwitz visited the site of the former concentration camp in Poland on Monday to mark the 70th anniversary of its liberation. The private visits by survivors to the camp came on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which honors those who lost their lives at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators, including...
Russia Adds 70 New Aircraft to Military District Around Crimea
Russia has purchased 70 new army jets and helicopters which will be stationed across the annexed Crimean peninsula over the course of the coming year. The move is part of a massive overhaul of the facilities in its Southern Military District, which stretches between the Caspian and the Black seas. The new southern-based units consist of 50...
