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    Britain to lead multinational effort to train Ukrainian navy
    Aug19

    Britain to lead multinational effort to train Ukrainian navy

    Britain’s Defense Secretary announced Tuesday that the country will lead a multinational Maritime Training Initiative for the Ukrainian navy in order to boost Ukraine’s ability to combat threats in the Black Sea. …read more Source:: United Press...

    GOP-led Report Reveals Just How Close Manafort Was To Russian Military Intel
    Aug18

    GOP-led Report Reveals Just How Close Manafort Was To Russian Military Intel

    “Fragmentary” evidence suggests that Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and a close associate of his may have had ties to Russia’s hacking of the 2016 Clinton campaign and the subsequent campaign to leak the stolen documents, a Republican-led Senate committee said on Tuesday. The report, released by the Senate Intelligence Committee,...

    Media Watchdogs Urge Ukraine To Investigate Arson Attack On Journalists’ Car
    Aug18

    Media Watchdogs Urge Ukraine To Investigate Arson Attack On Journalists’ Car

    Media watchdogs have called on Ukrainian authorities to investigate intimidation and attacks against journalists from Skhemy (Schemes), a joint investigative project by RFE/RL and UA: Pershy television, after one of their cars was torched. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    READ: Senate Intel Drops Final Russia Probe Report With New Details On Manafort, Stone
    Aug18

    READ: Senate Intel Drops Final Russia Probe Report With New Details On Manafort, Stone

    The Senate Intelligence Committee released its final report into Russian interference in the 2016 election on Tuesday, documenting Russian intelligence operations during the election and alleged ties between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign. Several members of the Trump campaign and its unofficial circle are labeled by the committee as...

    Wife of Jailed Iranian Dissident Criticizes Iran’s Rulers for Ordering Her Son to Prison for Protesting Ukraine Plane Shoot-down
    Aug18

    Wife of Jailed Iranian Dissident Criticizes Iran’s Rulers for Ordering Her Son to Prison for Protesting Ukraine Plane Shoot-down

    The wife of a jailed Iranian dissident has criticized her nation’s Islamist rulers for ordering the couple’s son to go to prison for protesting the Iranian military’s January shoot-down of a Ukrainian passenger plane, saying the wrong people were being imprisoned for the incident. Fatemeh Maleki announced in an August 11...

    Prominent Republicans Endorse Biden at Democratic Convention
    Aug18

    Prominent Republicans Endorse Biden at Democratic Convention

    John Kasich, the former Republican governor of Ohio, crossed party lines on Monday to speak at the Democratic National Convention in support of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. “I’m a lifelong Republican, but that attachment holds second place to my responsibility to my country. That’s why I’ve chosen to...

    Ukraine Summons Belarus Ambassador, Saying Release Of Alleged Russian Mercenaries Undermined Trust
    Aug18

    Ukraine Summons Belarus Ambassador, Saying Release Of Alleged Russian Mercenaries Undermined Trust

    Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says Ukraine has summoned the Belarus ambassador for consultations on deteriorating relations between the two countries. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    No Country for Simple Solutions
    Aug17

    No Country for Simple Solutions

    While the future of Aleksander Lukashenko’s regime in Belarus following the grotesquely rigged presidential election seems bleaker by the day, the prospects of the country’s conversion to democracy, rule of law, and market economy remain equally uncertain. But that is not a reason for despair. It is a reason for Western policymakers...

    Ukraine announces deal to end violence
    Aug17

    Ukraine announces deal to end violence

    Ukraine says it has negotiated an agreement between the country’s president and the opposition to end a three-month political crisis that exploded this week into deadly violence. CBS News’ Danielle Nottingham reports. …read more Source::...

    Ukraine crisis: New deal to end violence after dozens killed
    Aug17

    Ukraine crisis: New deal to end violence after dozens killed

    Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych has agreed to hold elections later this year and to form an interim coalition government. But it is not enough for his opponents, and the protesters in Kiev’s Independence Square say they’ll stay put until the president leaves office. …read more Source::...