Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)
Global Sentsov Campaign Planned Ahead Of Russia World Cup
Activists have announced a global campaign to demand the release of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov, who opposed Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and is now on hunger strike in a Russian prison. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Showcases Javelin Firepower From United States
Ukraine has showcased the firepower of the Javelin antitank missile systems given to it by the United States last month in a performance President Petro Poroshenko called “a dream come true.” …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Accuses 35 Football Clubs, Hundreds Of Players, Officials Of Match Fixing
Ukraine has accused 35 football clubs of involvement in a match-fixing operation that allegedly earned millions of dollars a year for the organizers. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
State Duma Adopts Russian Countersanctions Bill
The lower chamber of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, has approved in its third and final reading a bill that provides for countermeasures against the United States and other countries that imposed sanctions against Russia. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Deadly Spike In Fighting Reported In Eastern Ukraine
Monitoring officials say clashes between Ukrainian forces and separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine have escalated in recent days to some of the fiercest fighting of 2018. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The Magnificent Flying Machines Of Igor Sikorsky
The Kyiv-born aviator who fled the Bolshevik Revolution and created the helicopters that have served U.S. presidents from Eisenhower to Trump. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia’s FSB Accuses Crimean Tatars Of ‘Extremist’ Plot
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has accused Crimean Tatar activists of orchestrating and carrying out attacks with Kyiv’s support, allegations described as “fantasy” by the Ukrainian Security Service. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Life Is No Beach For Crimeans Seeking Surf And Sun
Crimea’s Russian-installed leaders have failed to live up to promises to free up public access to beaches. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Poroshenko Recalls Ukraine’s Envoys From CIS Bodies
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree recalling Kyiv’s envoys from bodies of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), a loose grouping of former Soviet republics that he said Ukraine no longer has any use for. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Bark Soup In Brussels: Experiencing The Horror Of The Holodomor
In an effort to draw attention to the 1932-33 Holodomor famine in Ukraine, activists and students offered Brussels passersby the type of food people were forced to eat in order to survive. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
