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    Moscow Court Upholds Extension Of Pretrial Detention For Six Of 24 Ukrainian Sailors
    Aug16

    Moscow Court Upholds Extension Of Pretrial Detention For Six Of 24 Ukrainian Sailors

    A court in Moscow has upheld a lower court’s decision to extend pretrial detention for six of the 24 Ukrainian sailors detained by Russian forces along with their three naval vessels in November near the Kerch Strait, which links the Black Sea and Sea of Azov. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    U.S. Special Envoy To Ukraine Says Russian Propaganda Hindering Peace Efforts
    Aug16

    U.S. Special Envoy To Ukraine Says Russian Propaganda Hindering Peace Efforts

    The U.S. special peace envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker, says Russian propaganda is making it a challenge to solve the conflict in Crimea. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Pilot hailed as hero after bird strike disables Russian jet
    Aug15

    Pilot hailed as hero after bird strike disables Russian jet

    MOSCOW — A Russian pilot was being hailed as a hero Thursday for safely landing his passenger jet in a corn field after it collided with a flock of gulls seconds after takeoff, causing both engines to malfunction. While dozens of people on the plane sought medical assistance, only one was hospitalized. The quick thinking of the captain, 41-year...

    Russia After Putin Is Not a Solved Problem
    Aug15

    Russia After Putin Is Not a Solved Problem

    Tyrannies are fragile things and when the fear upon which they are based crumbles, they collapse. The protests in Russia over the past weeks may be a sign of the growing fearlessness of some Russian citizens and the resulting weakness of Putin and his gang. There is good reason, therefore, to be hopeful that the Putinist kleptocracy may end. Who,...

    Russian Airliner Lands Safely After Both Engines Fail – Drawing ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ Comparisons
    Aug15

    Russian Airliner Lands Safely After Both Engines Fail – Drawing ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ Comparisons

    (MOSCOW) — The captain of a Russian passenger jet was hailed as a hero Thursday for landing his plane in a cornfield after it collided with a flock of gulls seconds after takeoff, causing both engines to malfunction. While dozens of people sought medical assistance, only one was hospitalized. The event drew comparisons to the 2009 “Miracle on the...

    Flying Down East
    Aug15

    Flying Down East

    We were flying away from Washington D.C. again, leaving the Sturm und Drang of our hometown in early August for a point nearly as far east on the U.S. map as one can get. It is “Down East,” in the vernacular of Maine, and the town of Eastport, where residents say the sun first rises over the United States, as does the moon, which gets far too...

    Russian jet crash-lands in field outside Moscow after striking flock of gulls
    Aug15

    Russian jet crash-lands in field outside Moscow after striking flock of gulls

    A Russian passenger jet flew into a flock of birds then crash-landed in a cornfield just outside a Moscow airport Thursday, according to Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency. The Ural Airlines Airbus A321 was carrying 226 passengers and a crew of seven from Moscow’s Zhukovsky airport to Simferopol — a city on the Crimean Peninsula —...

    U.S. Wants to Seize Iranian Supertanker to Stop It Being Released From Gibraltar
    Aug15

    U.S. Wants to Seize Iranian Supertanker to Stop It Being Released From Gibraltar

    (MADRID) — The United States moved on Thursday to halt the release of an Iranian supertanker detained in Gibraltar for breaching international sanctions on oil shipments, thwarting efforts by authorities in London and the British overseas territory to defuse tensions with Tehran. The Gibraltar government confirmed earlier media reports that the...

    US Move Halts Release of Iranian Tanker Held in Gibraltar
    Aug15

    US Move Halts Release of Iranian Tanker Held in Gibraltar

    The United States moved on Thursday to halt the release of an Iranian supertanker detained in Gibraltar for breaching international sanctions on oil shipments, thwarting efforts by authorities in London and the British overseas territory to defuse tensions with Tehran.The Gibraltar government confirmed earlier media reports that the U.S....

    Russian ‘Miracle’: 23 Hurt When Plane Makes Emergency Landing in Cornfield
    Aug15

    Russian ‘Miracle’: 23 Hurt When Plane Makes Emergency Landing in Cornfield

    Updated Aug. 15, 5:45 a.m.MOSCOW — Russians hailed a miracle Thursday after a passenger plane carrying 233 people made an emergency landing in a corn field on the outskirts of Moscow after striking a flock of birds shortly after takeoff.The Ministry of Health said 23 people had suffered injuries, but that nobody had been killed when the Ural...