Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Says Moscow Holds Key To Ukraine Crisis
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius says the key to solving the Ukraine crisis is in Moscow, because tanks and troops are flowing across the border from Russia to Ukraine. Speaking on November 26, he said maintaining sanctions on Russia was the very least that could be done. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source:...
Pro-Russian Party Excluded From Moldova Parliamentary Vote
Moldova’s elections authorities have removed a pro-Russian party from parliamentary elections. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Congolese Doctor Receives Sakharov Prize
A Congolese doctor has received the European Union’s Sakharov human rights award for his work with thousands of gang rape victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
U.S. General Voices Concern About Russian Forces In Ukraine
The U.S. general who is NATO’s senior commander in Europe has said that there is a large number of Russians providing “backbone guidance and training” to separatist forces in eastern Ukraine, and promised that the United States will support Ukraine in the face of an “immediate threat from Russia” to its sovereignty....
Another Crimean Tatar Detained In Connection With May Clashes
A Crimean Tatar has been detained in connection with clashes between Russian police and Crimean Tatars. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Merkel Says Russia Trampling On International Law
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Russia’s actions in Ukraine are a violation of international law and a threat to peace in Europe, but warned that the West will need “patience and staying power” to deal with the problem. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Back In The U.S.S.R.: The Soviet Union In Color In 1963
Pretend you’re rummaging through an old steamer trunk in a dusty antique store somewhere. Inside the trunk, hidden amidst some old Frank Sinatra LPs and a stack of fading “National Geographic” magazines, you find a cardboard box. You open the box and discover a stack of photographic slides wrapped in a yellowed newspaper dating to 1963....
Ukraine Says More Russian Military In East
Ukraine has leveled fresh charges that Russia is sending military support to pro-Russian separatists in the east. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukrainian City Strips Russian Singer Of Honorary Citizenship
Ukraine’s eastern city of Poltava has stripped Russian singer and lawmaker Yosif Kobzon of honorary citizenship. The Poltava City Council decided on November 25 that the title given to Kobzon in 2002 must be withdrawn because his anti-Ukrainian stance. Kobzon, who was born in Ukraine’s eastern region of Donetsk in 1937, was extremely...
Ukraine – The Village On The Front Line
The Ukrainian village of Krysmke lies on the front line. Government forces are dug in around the village, but civilians face frequent artillery fire from Russian-backed separatists. Many feel they have no choice but to stay – and take their chances with the shells falling around them. (Levko Stek, RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service)...
