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    RSF: Syria, Iraq, Mexico Are Most Dangerous For Journalists, But Deaths Decreasing
    Dec19

    RSF: Syria, Iraq, Mexico Are Most Dangerous For Journalists, But Deaths Decreasing

    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says 65 professional journalists, citizen-journalists, and media workers were killed across the world in 2017, representing an 18 percent fall from last year’s figure. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Vladimir Putin’s Challenger Says He Would Win if Russia’s Elections Were Fair
    Dec19

    Vladimir Putin’s Challenger Says He Would Win if Russia’s Elections Were Fair

    (MOSCOW) — As the most serious challenger during Vladimir Putin’s 18 years in power, Alexei Navalny has endured arrests, show trials and facefuls of green antiseptic that damaged his vision. But in an interview Monday with The Associated Press, he said the biggest thing keeping him from becoming Russia’s next president is a political...

    Ukraine FM: Russia Does Not Live in a Vacuum, Sanctions Are Effective
    Dec17

    Ukraine FM: Russia Does Not Live in a Vacuum, Sanctions Are Effective

    Ukraine’s foreign minister applauded decisions announced this week by Canada and the European Union (EU) as important in demonstrating the international community’s solidarity with Ukraine and sending a clear message to Russia. “Look, Russia does not live in a vacuum, sanctions are effective,” Pavlo Klimkin said Friday in an interview...

    Trump Aide Manafort, Facing Trial In Russia Probe, To Be Released From House Arrest
    Dec16

    Trump Aide Manafort, Facing Trial In Russia Probe, To Be Released From House Arrest

    U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is close to winning release from house arrest after satisfying terms for posting a $10 million bond. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Why the War in Ukraine Matters to America
    Dec16

    Why the War in Ukraine Matters to America

    KYIV, Ukraine—And it goes on and on in eastern Ukraine. Every day and every night. There’s never any end to the artillery, the rockets, the snipers. Or the killing. The war in Ukraine has so far killed more than 10,300 Ukrainians, including at least 2,523 civilians, according to the United Nations. “After three and a half years, we are...

    Ukrainian Prosecutor Suggests Saakashvili Will Be Extradited To Georgia
    Dec15

    Ukrainian Prosecutor Suggests Saakashvili Will Be Extradited To Georgia

    Ukraine’s prosecutor-general says opposition figure Mikheil Saakashvili will likely be extradited to Georgia, where he is wanted on charges linked to when he was that country’s president. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Poroshenko faces worst political crisis of his administration
    Dec15

    Poroshenko faces worst political crisis of his administration

    KYIV – Not since the Euro-Maidan revolution have Kyiv’s streets seen such unrest as what occurred last weekend and turned out to be President Petro Poroshenko’s worst domestic political crisis to date. …read more Source: The Ukrainian...

    Chicago and New York events raise more than $500,000 for UCU
    Dec15

    Chicago and New York events raise more than $500,000 for UCU

    CHICAGO – Recent events in Chicago and New York City together raised more than half a million dollars for Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU). Both the spiritual and the secular were emphasized at the events: Bishop Borys Gudziak, president of UCU, shared the New York program with Michigan-born Dr. Ulana Suprun, acting minister of health of […]...

    UWC statement on the centennial of the Kurultai
    Dec15

    UWC statement on the centennial of the Kurultai

    The Ukrainian World Congress in December 9 extended its congratulations on the 100th anniversary of First Kurultai of the Crimean Tatar People. The Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) congratulates Crimean Tatars on the 100th anniversary of the First Kurultai of the Crimean Tatar People, which proclaimed the Crimean People’s Republic, and...

    This Sputnik Moment
    Dec15

    This Sputnik Moment

    It takes a pretty big shock to the system to transform the way the United States engages the world. A spate of German submarine attacks on American merchant ships was the final trigger for American entry into World War I. Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor brought America into World War II. The attacks on September 11 led the United States to...