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    Ukraine OKs Property Law That Could Affect 12,000 Churches
    Jan17

    Ukraine OKs Property Law That Could Affect 12,000 Churches

    Ukraine’s parliament on Thursday adopted a bill spelling out procedures for transferring church property after a new unified Ukrainian Orthodox church was granted independence. The bill could potentially affect some 12,000 churches in Ukraine and vast amounts of property, including the gems of Orthodox Christianity like the vast Pechersk...

    Sea Tragedy Raises Donbas Coal Theft Claims
    Jan17

    Sea Tragedy Raises Donbas Coal Theft Claims

    When a ship sank in the Black Sea with 3,300 tons of coal on board, Kyiv said Moscow was illegally exporting coal from areas of eastern Ukraine held by Russia-backed separatists. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Ukraine OKs Property Law That Could Affect 12,000 Churches
    Jan17

    Ukraine OKs Property Law That Could Affect 12,000 Churches

    Ukraine’s parliament has adopted a bill spelling out procedures for transferring church property after a new unified Ukrainian Orthodox church was granted independence from the Russian church. …read more Source: U.S....

    Ukrainian Parliament Adopts Law On Religious Communities’ Affiliation
    Jan17

    Ukrainian Parliament Adopts Law On Religious Communities’ Affiliation

    The Ukrainian parliament has adopted a bill setting the procedure for changing the affiliation of religious communities in the country. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Facebook takes down anti-NATO pages linked to Russian news agency Sputnik
    Jan17

    Facebook takes down anti-NATO pages linked to Russian news agency Sputnik

    Facebook removed hundreds of pages on Thursday it said posed as independent news sites in eastern Europe and elsewhere but were actually run by employees at Russian state-owned news agency Sputnik. Facebook (FB) said the 364 pages and accounts had almost 800,000 followers and had spent around $135,000 on ads on the platform between October 2013...

    Ukraine Detains ‘Pro-Separatist’ Journalist After Deportation From Russia
    Jan17

    Ukraine Detains ‘Pro-Separatist’ Journalist After Deportation From Russia

    Authorities in Ukraine say they have detained a journalist accused of undermining the country’s territorial integrity. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Manafort Worked With Russian-Ukrainian On Peace Plan Before — And Long After — Criminal Charges
    Jan17

    Manafort Worked With Russian-Ukrainian On Peace Plan Before — And Long After — Criminal Charges

    Konstantin Kilimnik, the alleged Russian intelligence operative who helped run Paul Manafort’s operations in Kyiv for roughly a decade, boasted of the duo’s closeness to RFE/RL in a 2017 interview. “The only guy who Manafort can conceivably talk to in Ukraine is basically me,” he said. …read more Source: Radio Free...

    Fake Washington Post newspaper claims President Trump resigned
    Jan17

    Fake Washington Post newspaper claims President Trump resigned

    Fake news was being distributed to commuters in and around the nation’s capital Wednesday. No, really. Liberal activists passed out thousands of trumped-up print copies of a phony Washington Post newspaper that looked “strikingly similar” to the real one but it was dated in the future. The paper was filled with fake news about...

    US Senate Upholds Lifting Sanctions on Russian’s Companies   
    Jan17

    US Senate Upholds Lifting Sanctions on Russian’s Companies   

    The U.S. Senate on Wednesday narrowly upheld a Trump administration plan to lift sanctions against three companies linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Eleven Republicans in the Senate joined Democrats in an effort to enforce the sanctions against the giant aluminum firm Rusal and two...

    Senate rejects resolution to block President Trump from lifting sanctions on Russia
    Jan16

    Senate rejects resolution to block President Trump from lifting sanctions on Russia

    The Senate failed to advance a bill to prevent President Donald Trump from lifting sanctions on three Russian businesses. Eleven Republicans joined 46 Democrats to vote for cloture on the bill, but they fell three votes short of the 60 votes needed to end debate. Congress has the power to reject any lessening of sanctions on Russia, but only if...