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    Belarus Strike Leader Jailed and Opposition Activist Detained
    Sep01

    Belarus Strike Leader Jailed and Opposition Activist Detained

    Tuesday, September 1 , 2020 - 10:02 (EET) Section: Time (USA)

    KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarus’ authorities on Monday handed a jail sentence to a factory strike organizer and detained a leading opposition activist, part of a methodical effort to stifle weeks of protests against the country’s authoritarian leader after an election the opposition says was rigged. President Alexander Lukashenko, who...

    Belarusian Opposition Leader Rejects Western Help
    Sep01

    Belarusian Opposition Leader Rejects Western Help

    Tuesday, September 1 , 2020 - 5:02 (EET) Section: Voice of America (USA)

    Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has told VOA that the country’s political crisis is “absolutely an internal affair” as she appeared to reject any idea of imminent Western intervention or help. Speaking Monday from Vilnius, Lithuania, Tsikhanouskaya said, “The Belarusian people have a responsibility for what’s...

    Putin Critic Beaten in Moscow
    Sep01

    Putin Critic Beaten in Moscow

    Tuesday, September 1 , 2020 - 2:02 (EET) Section: The Washington Free Beacon (USA)

    Staunch Kremlin critic and opposition voice Yegor Zhukov was savagely beaten on the streets of Moscow by unidentified assailants Sunday night, the Washington Post reported. The thugs approached and attacked Zhukov outside of his apartment in Moscow and escaped by scooter. Zhukov was sent to the hospital following the attack, but was released with...

    Families of Malaysia Airlines MH17 Victims Want Damages, Lawyers Say
    Sep01

    Families of Malaysia Airlines MH17 Victims Want Damages, Lawyers Say

    Tuesday, September 1 , 2020 - 1:02 (EET) Section: Voice of America (USA)

    The families of the nearly 300 victims of a downed Malaysia Airlines passenger plane want reparations, their lawyers said Monday, more than six years after the plane was shot down over Ukraine.All 298 passengers and crew on board MH17 were killed on July 17, 2014, when the plane was allegedly shot down by a Buk missile fired from territory in...

    Lawyer: Families of MH17 victims want reparation for damages
    Aug31

    Lawyer: Families of MH17 victims want reparation for damages

    Monday, August 31 , 2020 - 16:02 (EET) Section: ABC News (USA)

    A lawyer for relatives of victims killed when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine in 2014 has told trial judges Monday that the families want damages as a recognition of the injustice they suffered …read more Source:: ABC...

    Lawyer: Families of MH17 victims want reparation for damages
    Aug31

    Lawyer: Families of MH17 victims want reparation for damages

    Monday, August 31 , 2020 - 16:02 (EET) Section: KXAN (USA)

    SCHIPHOL, Netherlands (AP) — A lawyer for relatives of victims killed when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine in 2014 told trial judges Monday that the families want damages as a recognition of the injustice they suffered and told judges that Russian “disinformation” compounds their grief. Lawyer Arlette Schijns was...

    Huge Protest on Belarus Leader’s Birthday Demands He Resign
    Aug31

    Huge Protest on Belarus Leader’s Birthday Demands He Resign

    Monday, August 31 , 2020 - 1:02 (EET) Section: Time (USA)

    KYIV, Ukraine — Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered Sunday in the capital of Belarus, beginning the fourth week of daily protests demanding the resignation of the country’s authoritarian president after an election they call rigged gave him a sixth term in office. The protest at the “hero city” monument honoring Minsk’s...

    Pompeo registers U.S. concern about Chinese strategic purchase in call with Zelenskiy
    Aug31

    Pompeo registers U.S. concern about Chinese strategic purchase in call with Zelenskiy

    Monday, August 31 , 2020 - 0:02 (EET) Section: World Tribune (USA)

    Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has spoken with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy about U.S. concerns over China’s attempt to purchase a Ukrainian engine manufacturer, the State Department said on Aug. 29. Pompeo raised concerns over “malign” Chinese investment in...

    Huge protest on Belarus leader’s birthday demands he resign
    Aug30

    Huge protest on Belarus leader’s birthday demands he resign

    Sunday, August 30 , 2020 - 20:02 (EET) Section: KXAN (USA)

    KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered Sunday in the capital of Belarus, beginning the fourth week of daily protests demanding the resignation of the country’s authoritarian president after an election they call rigged gave him a sixth term in office. The protest at the “hero city” monument honoring Minsk’s...

    Ukraine language in GOP platform underscores Trump tensions
    Aug30

    Ukraine language in GOP platform underscores Trump tensions

    Sunday, August 30 , 2020 - 17:02 (EET) Section: The Hill (USA)

    The absence of an updated Republican party platform for the 2020 election is allowing President Trump to avoid hard commitments on the sensitive foreign policy issue of Ukraine, where his withholding of $400 million in military assistance was at the… …read more Source:: The...