Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)
Ukraine Suspends Russian Gas Purchases
Ukraine’s state-run energy firm Naftogaz says it will stop buying gas from Russia from July 1 until new supply conditions are agreed. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Czech PM: ‘Important’ To Keep Sanctions On Russia
Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka says it is essential that international sanctions against Russia continue until all sides in the Ukraine conflict meet the terms of a cease-fire deal agreed to in February. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The Daily Vertical: The Aces Up Putin’s Sleeve
The Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that appears Monday through Friday. Viewers can suggest topics via Twitter @PowerVertical or on the Power Vertical Facebook page. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Firefighters Battle Forest Fire Near The Chernobyl Plant
Firefighters have been trying to contain a raging forest fire that started on the evening of June 29 in the exclusion zone near the destroyed Chornobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
U.S. Export Bank, Expiring June 30, May Be Revived In Senate Vote
The supporters of the U.S. Export-Import Bank have enough votes in the Senate to revive it and will get a chance to do so, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said June 29. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Illegal Amber Digging Lays Waste To Ukrainian Forest
Industrial-scale mining is causing devastation to swathes of forest in western Ukraine. The country’s interior ministry says the business is controlled by criminal gangs that make up to $500 million a year. Despite the fact that the activity is illegal, the gangs carry out their work quite openly. The police say they don’t have the...
Russia Offers Ukraine Reduction In Gas Price
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says natural-gas prices for Ukraine will be reduced to $247 per 1,000 cubic meters. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
U.S. Compares China’s Island-Building To Russia’s Moves In Ukraine
The U.S. State Department’s no. 2 diplomat has compared China’s moves to claim new territory through island-building in the South China Sea to Russia’s moves in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia Slams U.S. State Department Report
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on June 26 that an annual human rights report released by the United States was politically motivated and ignored rights violations by Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
‘ElectricYerevan’ Protesters Chafe At Comparisons To Ukraine’s Euromaidan
Many observers in Russia and the West are comparing the ongoing Armenian protests against rising electricity prices to the Euromaidan movement in Ukraine. But spokespeople in Yerevan are resisting this attempt to broaden the framing of their project. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
