: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Section: USA

    Apathy Is the Greatest Insult to the Memory of Fallen Soldiers
    Oct24

    Apathy Is the Greatest Insult to the Memory of Fallen Soldiers

    Tuesday, October 24 , 2017 - 1:25 (EEST) Section: The Daily Signal (USA)

    KYIV, Ukraine—I’ve experienced our country’s wars both as a combatant and a witness. I deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq while I was an Air Force special operations pilot, and I’ve been back to report on both of those wars as a journalist. I’ve also reported on U.S. military operations at other places in the Middle East and...

    Report: Major Dem Lobbyist A Mueller Target For Work Connected To Manafort
    Oct24

    Report: Major Dem Lobbyist A Mueller Target For Work Connected To Manafort

    Tuesday, October 24 , 2017 - 1:25 (EEST) Section: TPM (USA)

    A prominent Democratic lobbyist whose brother happened to chair Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign has become the subject of a criminal inquiry as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, NBC News reported Monday. Mueller’s reported interest in Tony Podesta, and his Dem-leaning lobbying firm the Podesta Group,...

    Fifty Shades of Czech Populism
    Oct23

    Fifty Shades of Czech Populism

    Monday, October 23 , 2017 - 23:25 (EEST) Section: The American Interest (USA)

    This past weekend’s elections in the Czech Republic show the ideological permissiveness of populism. Czech voters dallied with a dizzying array of populist parties from extreme Right to extreme Left, with multiple shades in-between. In a proportional representation system with a 5 percent threshold, three of these parties together garnered...

    Robert Mueller’s widening Russia probe is sweeping up Democrats, including lobbyist Tony Podesta
    Oct23

    Robert Mueller’s widening Russia probe is sweeping up Democrats, including lobbyist Tony Podesta

    Monday, October 23 , 2017 - 23:25 (EEST) Section: Salon (USA)

    Robert Mueller (Credit: Getty/Andrew Burton) Much like the mid-90s saw story after story showing how extensive Chinese government operations within U.S. politics were, the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election is demonstrating the size of Russia’s. That’s the overall takeaway from a series of news reports, including one from NBC...

    The Reach and Limits of Russian Influence
    Oct23

    The Reach and Limits of Russian Influence

    Monday, October 23 , 2017 - 23:25 (EEST) Section: The American Interest (USA)

    Russia’s influence in the Balkans is real and easily observed. Both before and since the Ukrainian crisis, it has affected the region in a multitude of ways. Moscow’s rising military might has far reaching consequences for the security posture of NATO and its members bordering the Black Sea. The Russian oil and gas companies, Gazprom,...

    Ukraine’s Anticorruption Bureau Says Raids Odesa Mayor’s Home, Office
    Oct23

    Ukraine’s Anticorruption Bureau Says Raids Odesa Mayor’s Home, Office

    Monday, October 23 , 2017 - 21:25 (EEST) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    Ukrainian anticorruption investigators have raided the home and office of the mayor of the Black Sea port of Odesa, who is at the center of an embezzlement probe. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Special counsel Robert Mueller is now investigating a top Democratic lobbyist
    Oct23

    Special counsel Robert Mueller is now investigating a top Democratic lobbyist

    Monday, October 23 , 2017 - 21:25 (EEST) Section: Vox (USA)

    Tony Podesta, the brother of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair, is under scrutiny in the expanding Russia investigation. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation on Russian interference has a new subject: well-known Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta. According to Tom Winter and Julia Ainsley of NBC News, an inquiry by...

    Detained Azerbaijani Opposition Journalist Appeals Ukrainian Court Ruling
    Oct23

    Detained Azerbaijani Opposition Journalist Appeals Ukrainian Court Ruling

    Monday, October 23 , 2017 - 15:55 (EEST) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    A self-exiled Azerbaijani opposition journalist has appealed a Ukrainian court’s decision to keep him jailed while authorities in Kyiv determine whether he should be extradited to Baku. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Anne Applebaum: The Full Transcript
    Oct23

    Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Anne Applebaum: The Full Transcript

    Monday, October 23 , 2017 - 15:55 (EEST) Section: POLITICO - U.S. Edition (USA)

    Subscribe to The Global POLITICO on Apple Podcasts here. | Subscribe via Stitcher here.Susan Glasser: Hi, it’s Susan Glasser, and welcome back to The Global POLITICO. I’m delighted to be here this week with Anne Applebaum, columnist and author of a new book just out this very week in the United States, Red Famine: Stalin’s War...

    ‘This Myth About the Great and Horrible Putin’
    Oct23

    ‘This Myth About the Great and Horrible Putin’

    Monday, October 23 , 2017 - 15:55 (EEST) Section: POLITICO - U.S. Edition (USA)

    Subscribe to The Global POLITICO on Apple Podcasts here. | Subscribe via Stitcher here.What if we’re wrong about Vladimir Putin?To read the U.S. coverage these days about the Russian president, you’d think he’s 10 feet tall, a puppetmaster who merely has to yank the strings of his hacker army in the Kremlin to make...