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    Canadian House Foreign Affairs Committee urges Ottawa to bolster initiatives for Ukraine
    Dec02

    Canadian House Foreign Affairs Committee urges Ottawa to bolster initiatives for Ukraine

    OTTAWA – Canada’s House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development has called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government to maintain its major initiatives regarding Ukraine and add new ones in the areas of cyber-security and visas. …read more Source: The Ukrainian...

    Turns out, a Jewish woman was Miss Germany in 2011
    Dec02

    Turns out, a Jewish woman was Miss Germany in 2011

    Valeria Bystriskaia being crowned Miss Universe Germany in Berlin, July 7, 2011. (Courtesy of Bystriskaia) (JTA) — Last week, the story of a Jewish woman competing in the Miss Germany competition went viral, appearing in JTA along with media outlets around the world. Tamar Morali, 21, said organizers told her she was the first Jewish woman to get...

    What in the world is going on  in Russia-backed Luhansk ‘republic’?
    Dec02

    What in the world is going on in Russia-backed Luhansk ‘republic’?

    November 23 KYIV – Residents of “separatist”-controlled Luhansk awoke on November 21 to an all-too-familiar and distressing scene: masked, heavily armed men on armored vehicles patrolling the streets of the war-wracked eastern Ukrainian city. It captured the attention of those not only on the ground but in Kyiv and Moscow and beyond. And for good...

    Patriarch Filaret Says Ukrainian Church Will Never Go Back To Moscow Patriarchate
    Dec01

    Patriarch Filaret Says Ukrainian Church Will Never Go Back To Moscow Patriarchate

    The head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Filaret, has said the Ukrainian church will never go back under the control of the Moscow Patriarchate. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Russia Isn’t Going Away in Ukraine
    Dec01

    Russia Isn’t Going Away in Ukraine

    Lyle J. Goldstein Security, Europe The developing escalation spiral needs to be halted before it ends in total catastrophe. The North Korea situation seems to bring U.S. national security “back to the future,” inviting Americans to seriously contemplate the prospect of nuclear war for the first time in decades. That is regrettable, and this...

    Riot Police Clash With Protesters In Kyiv
    Dec01

    Riot Police Clash With Protesters In Kyiv

    Ukrainian riot police clashed with protesters in Kyiv who marked the fourth anniversary of the crackdown on the pro-European Maidan movement. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Victim’s Father Detonates Grenades At Ukraine Murder Trial, Killing Self And Defendant
    Dec01

    Victim’s Father Detonates Grenades At Ukraine Murder Trial, Killing Self And Defendant

    Police say a man detonated two grenades during a murder trial in the Ukrainian town of Nikopol on November 30, killing himself and a defendant and injuring nine other people as shrapnel sprayed through the courtroom. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Victim’s Father Detonates Grenades At Ukraine Murder Trial, Killing Self And Defendant
    Dec01

    Victim’s Father Detonates Grenades At Ukraine Murder Trial, Killing Self And Defendant

    Police say a man detonated two grenades during a murder trial in the Ukrainian town of Nikopol on November 30, killing himself and a defendant and injuring nine other people as shrapnel sprayed through the courtroom. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Russia Isn’t Going Away in Ukraine
    Dec01

    Russia Isn’t Going Away in Ukraine

    Lyle J. Goldstein Security, Europe The developing escalation spiral needs to be halted before it ends in total catastrophe. The North Korea situation seems to bring U.S. national security “back to the future,” inviting Americans to seriously contemplate the prospect of nuclear war for the first time in decades. That is regrettable, and this...

    Deadly Grenade Blasts Rock Ukrainian Court
    Nov30

    Deadly Grenade Blasts Rock Ukrainian Court

    The father of a murder victim detonated two hand grenades in a Ukrainian courtroom, killing himself and a defendant. Ten people were also injured and loaded into ambulances after the November 30 explosions in the eastern Ukrainian town of Nikopol. The defendants were accused of killing the man’s son with an automatic weapon in 2016....