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    Putin Signs Order Widening Eligibility For Russian Passports
    May01

    Putin Signs Order Widening Eligibility For Russian Passports

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to fast-track passports and citizenship for people in Ukraine and Soviet-era deportees. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Lies Are Fueling the Rise of Anti-Semitism
    May01

    Lies Are Fueling the Rise of Anti-Semitism

    A 19-year-old man on Saturday opened fire in a synagogue filled with hundreds of Jews celebrating the final hours of Passover. His hate-fueled act ended the life of Lori Gilbert Kaye—a woman dearly loved by her family and community. The bullets severed the finger of Rabbi Goldstein and wounded several others. The trauma, anguish, and terror will...

    Shipyard Opera, Choreographed Cranes Enliven Ukrainian Port
    May01

    Shipyard Opera, Choreographed Cranes Enliven Ukrainian Port

    The Ukrainian port of Mariupol has hosted an arts festival, [Startup] Gogolfest, meant to breathe new life into a city shaken by conflict in recent years. The festival’s highlight was a new opera performed in the shipyards, with water and machinery incorporated into the performance. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Werner Herzog’s Ode to Gorbachev
    May01

    Werner Herzog’s Ode to Gorbachev

    Werner Herzog is in love. His eyes glimmer, his smile is unforced, and his much-parodied Teutonic drone cannot conceal his affection for his subject, the ailing 87-year-old man who once ruled the largest country on earth and then presided over its dissolution. In Mikhail Gorbachev, Herzog has found a secular saint, a man who was a titan in an age...

    Report Explores Who Owns Huawei
    May01

    Report Explores Who Owns Huawei

    KIEV, Ukraine—Two western academics have examined the issue of Huawei’s true ownership in an unclassified analysis paper “Who Owns Huawei,” which was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The report comes as an increasing number of nations are wrestling with the issue of whether or not they should permit Huawei to participate...

    Georgian President: Decadelong Russian Military Occupation a Failure  
    May01

    Georgian President: Decadelong Russian Military Occupation a Failure  

    Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili says Russia’s decadelong military occupation of South Ossetia and Abkhazia has failed to break the national will to maintain sovereignty and achieve European Union and NATO accession. “Despite the occupied territories and despite the … constant everyday pressure with hostage-taking, with...

    Putin Suddenly Sacks Russian Envoy to Belarus Amid Oil Row
    May01

    Putin Suddenly Sacks Russian Envoy to Belarus Amid Oil Row

    Russian President Vladimir Putin suddenly sacked Moscow’s ambassador to Belarus, Mikhail Babich, the Kremlin said on Tuesday, amid a row over contaminated oil and a wider political discord between the ex-Soviet countries. Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko has generally been more closely aligned with Moscow than any other ex-Soviet...

    ‘The evidence is clear’: New details show collusion did occur — with Obama White House and Ukraine
    May01

    ‘The evidence is clear’: New details show collusion did occur — with Obama White House and Ukraine

    Executive Vice President at The Hill, John Solomon, joined Glenn Beck on Tuesday’s radio program to discuss recently uncovered evidence of collusion and foreign meddling in the 2016 presidential election — by the Obama administration. John spoke with several top Ukrainian officials who acknowledged that they released a “black...

    Russia opens passport centers near Ukrainian border despite objections from Kiev, D.C.
    Apr30

    Russia opens passport centers near Ukrainian border despite objections from Kiev, D.C.

    Russia on Tuesday ramped up efforts to naturalize residents of separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine by opening its second building in as many days dedicated to issuing those people passports. The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs touted the opening of a passport center in Pokrovsky, a town near the Ukrainian border, a … …read more...

    Ukrainian Police Investigating Video At Airport Showing Country’s Map Without Crimea
    Apr30

    Ukrainian Police Investigating Video At Airport Showing Country’s Map Without Crimea

    Ukrainian national police have launched a criminal case into the playing of a video at Kyiv’s Borispil Airport that showed a map of the country which did not include Crimea. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...