Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)
NATO, Russia Hold Highest Level Talks For Almost Two Years
NATO ambassadors resumed talks with their Russian counterpart in Brussels on April 20, ending a nearly two-year hiatus that followed Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The Morning Vertical, April 20, 2016
Your daily roundup …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Dutch Parliament Defeats Motion To Scrap EU-Ukraine Deal
The Dutch parliament has defeated a motion calling for the country to pull out of a treaty establishing closer European Union ties with Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukrainian Protesters Attack Convoy Of Former Pro-Russian Governor
The convoy of Mykhaylo Dobkin was attacked by protesters on April 18 in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Dobkin is the former governor of the region whose pro-Russian politics has angered many Ukrainian veterans who fought against Russia-backed separatist. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
RFE/RL Journalist In Crimea Investigated By Russia-Backed Authorities
The office for Crimea’s Prosecutor-General has said an RFE/RL journalist has been ordered not to leave the peninsula while he is being investigated by the Russia-backed authorities. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Shakespeare Like You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Him
Centuries after William Shakespeare wrote them, his plays are performed in a multitude of languages. To mark 400 years since Shakespeare’s death on April 23, 1616, actors from the Balkans to Central Asia performed perhaps the most famous monologue from Hamlet for RFE/RL. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukrainian President Announces Deal To Free Savchenko
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says Kyiv and Moscow have agreed on a possible framework to free Ukrainian military pilot Nadia Savchenko, who Russia has imprisoned on murder charges. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Journalist In Crimea Detained On Separatism Charges
The prosecutor-general for Russian-occupied Crimea says security services are pressing charges against a Crimean journalist for undermining the Russian territorial integrity. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The Morning Vertical, April 19, 2016
Your daily roundup. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Chernobyl ‘Liquidators’ Make Bitter Return
Emergency workers who responded to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 30 years ago returned to the scene of the event that changed their lives forever. Known as “liquidators,” they shared stories of their experiences and their struggles for official recognition and compensation. (Producers: Ray Furlong/Christian Borys. Camera: Yura Melko....
