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    The audacity of Nadiya Savchenko: former prisoner speaks in Washington
    Sep30

    The audacity of Nadiya Savchenko: former prisoner speaks in Washington

    Friday, September 30 , 2016 - 18:40 (EEST) Section: The Ukrainian Weekly (USA)

    WASHINGTON – “Russian propaganda made the mistake of using me as an example, and I just became too expensive for them. I am a person who never gives up,” said Nadiya Savchenko, a former prisoner of war, current member of Ukraine’s Parliament, and one of the country’s most popular politicians, on September 22. Three days […]...

    International criminal probe blames missile from Russia for MH17 tragedy
    Sep30

    International criminal probe blames missile from Russia for MH17 tragedy

    Friday, September 30 , 2016 - 18:10 (EEST) Section: The Ukrainian Weekly (USA)

    NIEUWEGEIN, The Netherlands – An international criminal investigation into the MH17 tragedy in eastern Ukraine in 2014 has determined the Malaysian Airlines passenger jet was shot down by a Buk anti-aircraft missile fired from separatist-controlled territory in Ukraine. The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) further determined that the missile system...

    Those attacking Ukrainian archives should improve their own research
    Sep30

    Those attacking Ukrainian archives should improve their own research

    Friday, September 30 , 2016 - 18:10 (EEST) Section: The Ukrainian Weekly (USA)

    On May 2, Foreign Policy magazine published an article by Josh Cohen, a former employee of the U.S. State Department, titled “The Historian Whitewashing Ukraine’s Past” (http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/05/ 02/the-historian-whitewashing-ukraines-past-volodymyr-viatrovych/). Although Mr. Cohen’s criticism of Ukraine’s archives open...

    October 3, 1990
    Sep30

    October 3, 1990

    Friday, September 30 , 2016 - 18:10 (EEST) Section: The Ukrainian Weekly (USA)

    Twenty-six years ago, on October 3, 1990, the Ukrainian Parliament (known as the Supreme Soviet at the time) voted by an overwhelming majority to greet the reunification of Germany after 45 years of separation and one year after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In its letter of greeting, Ukraine’s Parliament raised the […] …read...

    Ukraine’s Paralympic team shines
    Sep30

    Ukraine’s Paralympic team shines

    Friday, September 30 , 2016 - 18:10 (EEST) Section: The Ukrainian Weekly (USA)

    The Ukrainian Weekly congratulates Ukraine’s 2016 Paralympic Team on its third-place finish at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games! This year, Ukraine was represented by 172 athletes in 15 sports and collected 117 medals (41 gold, 37 silver and 39 bronze). First place was won by China (239 medals), followed by Great Britain in second place […]...

    A Japanese Phone Line to Nowhere and Nowhere to Go in Aleppo: The Week in Global-Affairs Writing
    Sep30

    A Japanese Phone Line to Nowhere and Nowhere to Go in Aleppo: The Week in Global-Affairs Writing

    Friday, September 30 , 2016 - 18:10 (EEST) Section: The Atlantic (USA)

    One Last Thing Before I Go Miki Meek | This American Life Producer Miki Meek tells the story of a phone booth in Japan that attracts thousands of people who lost loved ones in the 2011 tsunami and earthquake. A Japanese TV crew from NHK Sendai filmed people inside the phone booth, whose phone is not connected to anything at all.* * *Young Rural...

    The Great Russia-China Oil Alliance Is Here (And Why It Matters)
    Sep30

    The Great Russia-China Oil Alliance Is Here (And Why It Matters)

    Friday, September 30 , 2016 - 16:40 (EEST) Section: The National Interest (USA)

    Tao Wang Energy, Asia Moscow and Beijing are growing closer for some very obvious reasons. China used to call Russia its ‘older brother’. But never again since the fall of the USSR. In an effort to portray its status as a less powerful yet assuredly more senior neighbour, Russian officials have recently begun referring to their country as...

    Gdansk as a bridge between East and West
    Sep30

    Gdansk as a bridge between East and West

    Friday, September 30 , 2016 - 15:56 (EEST) Section: The Huffington Post (USA)

    I feel that we, the countries recently accepted to the European Union, are well positioned to help the aspiring, new democracies reach their dreams of EU accession. That is the reason why I decided to engage in CORLEAP, the forum of local and regional authorities from the European Union and six Eastern Partnership countries. It is the only EU...

    Netherlands summons Russian envoy over MH17 probe criticism
    Sep30

    Netherlands summons Russian envoy over MH17 probe criticism

    Friday, September 30 , 2016 - 15:10 (EEST) Section: KXAN (USA)

    THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands has summoned Russia’s ambassador to complain about Russian criticism of the Dutch public prosecutor’s office over the probe into the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight 17. The Russian ambassador was called Friday to the foreign ministry in The Hague over statements that the Dutch say...

    Netherlands summons Russian envoy over MH17 probe criticism
    Sep30

    Netherlands summons Russian envoy over MH17 probe criticism

    Friday, September 30 , 2016 - 15:10 (EEST) Section: San Francisco Chronicle (USA)

    The international criminal investigation concluded that a missile which destroyed the Malaysian passenger jet over Ukraine in 2014 and killed all 298 people aboard was fired from rebel-controlled territory by a mobile launcher trucked in from Russia and hastily returned there. …read more Source: San Francisco...