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    Despite Sanctions, Russia’s List of Billionaires Is Growing Longer and Richer
    Apr19

    Despite Sanctions, Russia’s List of Billionaires Is Growing Longer and Richer

    Forbes 2018 Rich List for Russia shows the wealthy elite nearly as rich as before Crimea sanctions. …read more Source:...

    Michael Cohen has many alleged links to organized crime: Does that mean he won’t flip on Trump?
    Apr19

    Michael Cohen has many alleged links to organized crime: Does that mean he won’t flip on Trump?

    Getty/Eduardo Munoz Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, once told …read more Source:...

    Ukrainian Lawmakers Back President’s Move To Obtain Autocephalous Status For Orthodox Church
    Apr19

    Ukrainian Lawmakers Back President’s Move To Obtain Autocephalous Status For Orthodox Church

    Ukrainian lawmakers have backed President Petro Poroshenko’s appeal to the worldwide head of the Orthodox Church to recognize the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s independence from Moscow. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    A former director for Sean Hannity left Fox News to build a pro-Kremlin propaganda network in Russia
    Apr19

    A former director for Sean Hannity left Fox News to build a pro-Kremlin propaganda network in Russia

    AP One of Sean Hannity’s former directors — who claims …read more Source:...

    More on the Michael Cohen Money Trail
    Apr19

    More on the Michael Cohen Money Trail

    Yesterday we noted that Michael Cohen grew up around the Brooklyn social club which served as the headquarters of the bosses of the Russian mob in the from the 1970s to the 1990s. Today we discussed the role of Cohen’s father-in-law Fima Shusterman, an immigrant from Ukraine. Shusterman had been in the taxi business for decades before Cohen...

    Cohen-ology Pays Off After All
    Apr19

    Cohen-ology Pays Off After All

    Yesterday afternoon I had one of those epiphanies about a story I usually have no more than once every few years. It was partly triggered by details I put in this post about Michael Cohen. But it wasn’t about that alone. It was the sum of a dozen developments since the raid on Cohen’s homes and office last Monday. Starting over a year...

    Struggling To Believe: Ukrainian Orthodox Church Under Pressure In Crimea
    Apr18

    Struggling To Believe: Ukrainian Orthodox Church Under Pressure In Crimea

    The Kyiv-based Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Crimea is on the brink of oblivion. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Nikki Haley may go the way of Rex Tillerson
    Apr18

    Nikki Haley may go the way of Rex Tillerson

    AP/Jacquelyn Martin/Carolyn Kaster President Donald Trump’s recent public undercutting of …read more Source:...

    IOM Appeals for $38 million to Help Conflict-Affected People in Ukraine
    Apr18

    IOM Appeals for $38 million to Help Conflict-Affected People in Ukraine

    The International Organization for Migration is appealing for $38 million to aid 340,000 conflict-affected people in Ukraine. That is a 50 percent increase over the number of people the agency has been assisting since Russian-backed rebels in Eastern Ukraine began fighting for a separate state four years ago. Millions of people continue to suffer...

    40 ambassadors to the United Nations visit Israel
    Apr18

    40 ambassadors to the United Nations visit Israel

    JERUSALEM (JTA) — Forty ambassadors to the United Nations are visiting Israel. The five-day visit this week, which includes Israel’s 70th Independence Day, is led by Israel’s ambassador to the U.N., Danny Danon. Among the countries that the visiting ambassadors hail from are Serbia, Jamaica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hungary, Liberia,...