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    Ukraine Foreign Minister Calls on NATO, EU to Give Military Support
    Aug16

    Ukraine Foreign Minister Calls on NATO, EU to Give Military Support

    Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin called on NATO and the European Union to provide military support for Ukrainian troops fighting pro-Russian separatists and said the Western military alliance needed to come up with a new strategy toward Kiev. The four-month conflict in eastern Ukraine has reached a critical phase and a separatist leader...

    Legal ‘Pussyrioting’ Lives on in Another Russian Court Blunder
    Aug16

    Legal ‘Pussyrioting’ Lives on in Another Russian Court Blunder

    Russia’s use of “extremism” laws to prosecute nonviolent dissent is best known through Pussy Riot’s Dance Seen Around The World in Moscow’s main Christian Orthodox Cathedral, which yielded some of its participants two-year prison terms. On August 15, a district court in Moscow issued a verdict against Maxim...

    Slovakia Tests Reverse Gas Flow To Ukraine
    Aug16

    Slovakia Tests Reverse Gas Flow To Ukraine

    Slovakia has started testing a reverse gas flow that aims to help supply neighboring Ukraine with badly needed natural gas. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Poroshenko Claims Kyiv Forces Capture Another Town In Donetsk Region
    Aug16

    Poroshenko Claims Kyiv Forces Capture Another Town In Donetsk Region

    Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has tweeted that pro-government forces have captured the town of Zhdanivka, some 40 kilometers northeast of the city of Donetsk. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Russian Aid Convoy Waits Near Ukraine
    Aug16

    Russian Aid Convoy Waits Near Ukraine

    KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY, Russia—Hundreds of trucks in a Russian aid convoy were waiting Saturday near the Ukrainian border as complicated procedures drag on for allowing them into eastern Ukraine to help civilians suffering amid fighting between Ukrainian forces and separatists. Ukrainian officials are concerned that the mission including around 200...

    Top Ukraine Rebel Leader Says Troops Training In Russia
    Aug16

    Top Ukraine Rebel Leader Says Troops Training In Russia

    DONETSK, Ukraine, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Ukrainian rebels are receiving new military equipment and troops trained in Russia, and will launch a major counter-offensive against government forces, a separatist leader said in a video released on Saturday. The four-month conflict in eastern Ukraine has reached a critical phase, with Kiev and Western...

    Ukraine Plays Down Hit on Russian Convoy
    Aug16

    Ukraine Plays Down Hit on Russian Convoy

    Ukraine and Russia appeared to be seeking to avoid a broader confrontation following Kiev’s claim it destroyed most of a Russian military convoy that entered its territory. …read more Source: The Wall Street...

    ‘Military Activity’ Near Aid Convoy
    Aug16

    ‘Military Activity’ Near Aid Convoy

    There has been an increased level of military activity in the area near where a controversial humanitarian aid convoy from Russia is stalled on the Russian side of the Ukrainian border. …read more Source: The Boston...

    Missouri Protests, India Independence Day And A Supermoon: Week In Photos, Aug. 10 – 17
    Aug16

    Missouri Protests, India Independence Day And A Supermoon: Week In Photos, Aug. 10 – 17

    Nothing quite compares to the power of a photograph to communicate the goings on in the world. Ranging from the serious to the silly, these photos offer peeks into what happened around the globe this week.1. A girl plays with a dog as a perigee moon, also known as a supermoon, rises in Madrid on August 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)2. A man...

    Ukrainian Artist Still Missing After Lampooning Separatists
    Aug16

    Ukrainian Artist Still Missing After Lampooning Separatists

    A Ukrainian artist who displayed antiseparatist installations in the streets of Donetsk has been missing for over a week. Serhiy Zakharov’s friends say he is being held by the insurgents and fear for his life. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...