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    Chief of Moscow’s Ukrainian library gets suspended sentence
    Jun05

    Chief of Moscow’s Ukrainian library gets suspended sentence

    A Moscow court has convicted the director of a Ukrainian library of inciting ethnic hatred to Russians and imposed a four-year suspended sentence. Natalya Sharina was first detained in October … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The News...

    Chief of Moscow’s Ukrainian library gets suspended sentence
    Jun05

    Chief of Moscow’s Ukrainian library gets suspended sentence

    A Moscow court has convicted the director of a Ukrainian library of inciting ethnic hatred to Russians and imposed a four-year suspended sentence …read more Source: ABC...

    Ex-Director Of Moscow-Based Ukrainian Library Handed Suspended Sentence
    Jun05

    Ex-Director Of Moscow-Based Ukrainian Library Handed Suspended Sentence

    The former director of Moscow’s Ukrainian Literature Library, Natalya Sharina, has been handed a four-year suspended sentence by a Moscow court in a case that is steeped in the confrontation between Moscow and Kyiv and which has been denounced by rights activists. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    TV in breakaway Ukraine has a distinct Soviet tint to it

    Choreographed news reports highlight the rebel state’s wisdom and generosity. …read more Source: The Washington...

    The Remarkable Life of Lubomyr Husar . . .
    Jun05

    The Remarkable Life of Lubomyr Husar . . .

    How does it happen that a child growing up in eastern Galicia among Ukrainians, Poles, Moldovans, Germans, Austrians, Jews, Roma, and Armenians dodges Nazi death squads and the Red Army, learns first-hand what it means to be a “displaced person” in occupied Austria, emigrates to the United States, completes university and seminary studies before...

    World Bank Says Russian Economy To Grow 1.3 Percent In 2017, 1.4 percent in 2018
    Jun05

    World Bank Says Russian Economy To Grow 1.3 Percent In 2017, 1.4 percent in 2018

    The World Bank has forecast Russian economic growth at a 1.3 percent rate in 2017, helped by improving consumption in the country that is recovering from a two-year recession. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Why did the White House consider lifting Russian sanctions?
    Jun04

    Why did the White House consider lifting Russian sanctions?

    HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND ANCHOR: Good evening and thanks for joining us. For the second day in a row, Russian President Vladimir Putin is rejecting the assertion by American intelligence agencies that Russians meddled in last year’s U.S. presidential election to the potential benefit of Donald Trump. In an excerpt from an...

    After Trump’s Exit from Paris Accord: Just Sanction the Bastards!
    Jun04

    After Trump’s Exit from Paris Accord: Just Sanction the Bastards!

    By Jean-Francois BoittinAfter Trump’s exiting from the Paris Accord, no more travel freedom for all those involved in the decision-making.The reality of Trump exiting “his” United States from the Paris Accord has sunk in. The key question: What’s the rest of the world to do about it? Unfair United States The answer: Trade sanctions,...

    Wouldn’t it be nice? How the Russia investigation intersects with real-world U.S. foreign policy goals
    Jun04

    Wouldn’t it be nice? How the Russia investigation intersects with real-world U.S. foreign policy goals

    Donald Trump; Vladimir Putin (Credit: AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko/Evan Vucci) As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump asked a good question: “Wouldn’t it be nice if we actually got along with Russia?” Few Russia watchers — indeed few Americans — would disagree. The debate is over how. Would easing economic sanctions on Russia promote...

    Special Counsel Mueller’s Investigation Seems To Be Growing
    Jun04

    Special Counsel Mueller’s Investigation Seems To Be Growing

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The special counsel investigating possible ties between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia’s government has taken over a separate criminal probe involving former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and may expand his inquiry to investigate the roles of the attorney general and deputy attorney general in...