Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)
Ukraine Bans Lim Bizkit Rock Group Lead Singer For Five Years
Ukrainian news media reported December 21 that the country’s national security service has banned the leader of the U.S. rock band Limp Bizkit from entering the country for five years. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Last-Ditch Talks With Russia Fail To Resolve Impasse Over Trade
Last-ditch negotiations aimed at addressing Russia’s concerns about a free trade agreement between the European Union and Ukraine ended without result December 21. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia Says Ukraine Failed To Repay Multibillion Debt
Russia’s Finance Ministry says Ukraine has failed to repay a $3 billion Eurobond debt owed to Russia by December 21. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Blast Hits Donetsk Bus Stop
Russian news agencies have reported that a powerful explosive device went off late on December 21 in the city of Donetsk, in conflict-torn eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russian Activist Facing Protest Charges Flees To Ukraine
A Russian opposition activist who became the first person charged under a strict new protest law has reportedly fled to neighboring Ukraine, where he will seek political asylum. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Putin: Russia Doesn’t Want the USSR Back
President Vladimir Putin has said Russia was not trying to bring back the Soviet Union, but that “nobody wants to believe” it. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
EU Diplomats Agree To Extend Sanctions On Russia By Six Months
European Union ambassadors have agreed to extend economic sanctions against Russia for another six months over its role in the Ukraine conflict. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Podcast: What A Long, Strange Year It’s Been
Vladimir Putin’s marathon year-end press conference is an annual ritual that is never short of pithy one-liners. And in the midst of all the spin, theatrics, and bluster, it is also an event rich in messaging about the Kremlin’s current thinking and its priorities for the year ahead. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Tusk Says Nord Stream 2 Does Not Meet EU Energy Rules
European Council President Donald Tusk says the proposed Nord Stream-2 pipeline extension does not meet EU energy rules on supply diversification and would undermine Ukraine’s role as a gas transit state. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukrainian Refugees Say Russia Not So Welcoming Anymore
Svitlana Moroz, her two sons, and her elderly mother have lived in the spartan Sport hotel in Pskov, in western Russia, for nearly a year and a half now. But they and hundreds more like them who fled the fighting at home in eastern Ukraine could soon be out on the streets after Moscow in November adopted tougher new rules for the refugees....
