Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)
Kyiv Rethinks Strategy In East After Rebel Vote
President Petro Poroshenko says Ukraine will “reexamine” its commitments to a truce after pro-Russian rebels’ “gross violation” of a September cease-fire deal through their disputed elections in the country’s east. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia Falls Behind In Prosperity, Personal-Freedom Rankings
For the sixth year running, Norway leads the London-based Legatum Institute’s Prosperity Index, followed by Switzerland, New Zealand, Denmark, and Canada. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
NATO Commander Warns That Separatist Polls In Ukraine Don’t Help
With Russian military aid still said to be pouring into eastern Ukraine and debate raging over makeshift “elections,” NATO’s top military commander says the voting organized by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine contravene the peace plan and will not help the situation. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Five Takeaways From Eastern Ukraine’s Separatist Vote
The elections held in eastern Ukraine by the pro-Russian separatists may not have been recognized by anyone but Russia, but that may be all that matters. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Crime And Crimea: Criminals As Allies And Agents
What the Crimean annexation has demonstrated in especially stark form is the connection between crime and the Russian state — both how the Kremlin uses criminals as instruments of state policy and also how the underworld and upperworld have become inextricably entwined as a consequence. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukrainians Protest At Separatist Vote
Hundreds of people took to the streets of Kyiv to protest against elections in separatist-held areas of eastern Ukraine on November 2. The protestors marched from the Maidan, the scene of the revolution, chanting slogans and singing the Ukrainian national anthem. The elections have been recognized by Russia but condemned by the Ukrainian and...
EU Rejects Rebel Vote In Ukraine
The European Union says elections held in separatist-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine are an “obstacle to peace,” and Brussels will not recognize them. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Meet The ‘Racists’ Monitoring Eastern Ukraine’s Unrecognized Vote
With the West refusing to recognize elections in the separatist-controlled regions of eastern Ukraine, observers with views some might call “fascist” have filled the void. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia, China Thwart Plan For Ocean Sanctuary
Russia and China have prevented an international attempt to create the world’s largest ocean sanctuary in waters off of Antarctica. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Separatist-Held Ukrainian Regions To Hold ‘Elections’
Authorities in separatist-held areas of Ukraine’s Luhansk and Donetsk regions are due to hold self-declared elections on November 2 which Kyiv and Western powers say are illegitimate. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
