Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)
Ukraine Makes Show Of Force To Mark 25 Years Of Independence
Amid rising tensions with Russia, Ukraine marked 25 years of independence with a massive military parade in Kyiv. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Punitive Medicine? Crimean Tatars Shaken By Leader’s Confinement To Mental Asylum
Russia’s confinement of a Tatar activist to a psychiatric clinic in Crimea is raising fears that Moscow is reviving a Soviet-era practice to intimidate opponents of the peninsula’s annexation into silence. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Olympic Weightlifting Medalists Fail Doping Retests From 2008
Eleven Olympic weightlifting medalists will be stripped of their medals after failing retests of their doping samples from the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The Morning Vertical, August 24, 2016
Your daily roundup …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Celebrates 25th Independence Day As Tensions With Russia Worsen
Ukraine marked 25 years of independence from the Soviet Union on August 24 with a massive parade of soldiers and heavy weaponry through central Kyiv, in a show of force designed to boost the morale of the country’s servicemen and reassure Ukrainians amid heightened tensions with Russia. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The Daily Vertical: Ukraine At 25
The Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that appears Monday through Friday. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The Daily Vertical: Ukraine At 25 (Transcript)
The very idea of an independent Ukraine is offensive to Vladimir Putin, who has famously said that Ukraine “isn’t a real country.” …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
AP: Trump Aides Fought Release From Jail Of Ukraine’s Tymoshenko In 2012
The Associated Press is reporting that U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign aides in 2012 fought the release of Ukrainian political leader Yulia Tymoshenko when she was in jail. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Leaders Of Germany, Russia, France To Discuss Situation In Eastern Ukraine
The Kremlin has announced that the leaders of Russia, Germany, and France will meet on the sidelines of an upcoming G20 summit to discuss the situation in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Man Behind Putin Mask Protest Seeks Asylum in Ukraine
Russian opposition activist, Roman Roslovtsev, has fled to Ukraine and is asking for political asylum. He had been arrest several times in Russia for wearing a mask of President Vladimir Putin while protesting a law that criminalizes public gatherings. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
