Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)
Putin Holding Security Council Session In Annexed Crimea
Russian President Vladimir Putin is in Crimea, the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The Morning Vertical, August 19, 2016
Your daily Roundup …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The Daily Vertical: The Spirit Of 1991
The Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that appears Monday through Friday. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia Holding Military Exercises In Crimea
Russian military forces are carrying out “logistical exercises” in and around the Crimean Peninsula, the Ukrainian Black Sea region that Russia annexed in 2014. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Report: Trump Aide Did Not Disclose Lobbying For Ukraine’s Yanukovych
The Associated Press said it has obtained e-mails showing that a company run by Donald Trump’s campaign chairman lobbied for Ukraine’s Russian-backed president and did not meet legal requirements that it disclose those activities. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
New Fighting Flares In Southeastern Ukraine
Fresh clashes broke out overnight as Ukrainian troops battled Russia-backed separatists in Talakivka, near the city of Mariupol. The fighting was the latest in a recent flare-up of hostilities in the country’s east. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
25 Years Ago: Failed August Coup Changed U.S. Diplomatic Approach Toward Soviet Union
A failed coup in August 1991 by hard-liners in the Soviet government is widely seen as contributing to the dissolution of the Soviet Union by the end of 1991. To mark the 25th anniversary of the so-called August coup, RFE/RL spoke with former U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns about Washington’s perspective...
Prominent Russian Lawyer Barred From Leaving Russia
Prominent Russian human rights lawyer Mark Feygin has been barred from leaving Russia in a move he says is aimed at preventing him from defending Crimean Tatars at an Organization for Security and Cooperation event in Warsaw. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukrainians Rally In Support Of Anticorruption Bureau
Protesters demonstrated in front of Ukraine’s National Anticorruption Bureau on August 17 amid a growing conflict between that body and the Prosecutor’s Office, which raided the bureau last week. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine President Warns Of Conflict Escalation, Possible ‘Martial Law’
Ukraine’s president has said the likelihood of an escalation of the conflict with Russia and Russia-back separatists in eastern Ukraine “remains significant” and said he cannot rule out “a full-scale Russian invasion.” …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
