This year, a bumper crop of mushrooms is rewarding locals with plenty to eat and sell to restaurants, which is helping some families navigate an economic downturn during the pandemic. But mushroom-foraging tours have suffered. …read more Source:: Public Radio...
Latvia and Lithuania have banned Kremlin-tied RT television channels over links to Dmitry Kiselev, who is sanctioned by the EU for spreading propaganda about Ukraine. “The problem is that RT is a part of this infrastructure of propaganda,” media expert Solvita Denisa-Liepniece told The World’s Carol Hills. …read more Source:: Public Radio...
The US Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, has warned that the US expects pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine to resume the war in the spring. Specifically he says they will try to take the city of Mariupol, as part of a drive to open a land corridor to Crimea. Pro-Russian forces are already reported to be moving heavy weapons in that...
