Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)
Manafort’s Lawyer Calls Charges Against Him ‘Ridiculous’
A lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort said that charges against his client were “ridiculous” and stressed there was “no evidence” of collusion with the Russians. Speaking after Manafort pleaded not guilty in a federal court hearing on October 30, attorney Kevin Downing said...
Eyewitnesses Ponder Real Reasons Behind Raid On Kyiv Nightclub, Question Excessive Force
Eyewitnesses and human rights advocates say Ukrainian authorities used excessive force when they arrested 17 young clubgoers for drug possession and detained 32 others they described as draft dodgers in an early morning raid on a popular Kyiv nightclub. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Manafort Indictment Spurs Hope In Ukraine Of Renewed Focus On Dealings There
Half a world away from the FBI office in Washington where former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort turned himself in, critics of his work in Ukraine were quietly cheering. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Saakashvili Says Ukrainian Government Must Meet Protesters’ Demands
Hundreds of protesters have joined a rally organized outside the Ukrainian parliament in Kyiv by the Movement of New Forces, the political party led by Mikheil Saakashvili. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Saakashvili: Ukrainian Government Must Heed Our Demands
Hundreds of protesters joined a rally organized outside the Ukrainian parliament in Kyiv on October 29 by the New Forces Movement, a novice political group led by Mikheil Saakashvili. The former Georgian president and ex-governor of Ukraine’s Odesa Oblast was stripped of Ukrainian citizenship in June 2017 in a move he is currently...
Russian Rescue Team Arrives In Svalbard As Hopes For Crew Fade
A Russian plane dispatched by the Emergency Situations Ministry has arrived in Norway with a rescue team to aid efforts to recover the crew and passengers of a Russian Mi-8 helicopter that had gone missing off the Arctic Svalbard archipelago. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
In Kyiv, U.S. Envoy Meets Freed Tatar Leaders, Ukrainian Leaders
Kurt Volker, the U.S. special envoy for efforts to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine, has met with Crimean Tatar leaders Ilmi Umerov and Akhtem Chiygoz, who were released from custody in their Russian-occupied homeland this week. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Inside ‘Satan’s’ Lair: The Lock-Tight Ukrainian Rocket Plant At Center Of Tech-Leak Scandal
A recent report tied Ukraine’s storied and notorious rocket factory to North Korea’s missile program and thrust it into the middle of a geopolitical scandal. RFE/RL went inside to find out why. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
When Liberty Met ‘Satan’
Stanislav Yus — a laureate of the Soviet Lenin Prize, Lenin Komsomol Prize, and a Hero of Socialist Labor — is already a legend in his own right, and one of the last of his generation of missile designers. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Major Russian Defense, Intelligence Companies Targeted By New U.S. Sanctions
The U.S. State Department has targeted nearly three dozen major Russian defense and intelligence companies under a new U.S. sanctions law, restricting business transactions with them and further ratcheting up pressure against Moscow. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
