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UN rights office: Death toll in Ukraine conflict tops 6,400
The United Nations’ human rights office says the number of people killed in more than a year of fighting in eastern Ukraine has risen to over 6,400.Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Self-exiled former Georgia president returns as governor in Ukraine
He’s probably best known as the former president of Georgia. Or more recently, as a one-term academic at Tufts University, or to residents of Brooklyn, as the man about Williamsburg…Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Russian military insignia are reported in Ukraine
The report was a rare allegation by the special monitoring mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe of a possible sighting of active Russian military personnel in…Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Russia says it has no access to men detained in Ukraine
Russia’s embassy in Ukraine says it has still not been given access to two Russian citizens detained earlier this month on suspicion of fighting alongside separatists in the eastern region…Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Amnesty says torture of Ukraine war prisoners is rife
Amnesty says former captives of both Ukrainian government and separatist forces report savage beatings, torture with electric shocks, kicking and stabbings.Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Like Ukraine, Georgia is now torn between Russia and the West
People in this former Soviet republic walk a thin tightrope between the lure of business opportunities in the West and threats from Russia, their neighbor to the north.Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Kerry to meet Russia’s Putin amid Ukraine, Syria tensions
Kerry lays a wreath at a World War II memorial ahead of a meeting with Vladimir Putin. It is Kerry’s first visit to Russia since May 2013 and the advent…Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Hammer and sick of it: Ukraine tries to ditch communist past
A hulking steel statue of a victorious female warrior bearing aloft sword and shield looms in dour majesty over the Ukrainian capital. The Motherland Monument’s shield bears the Communist hammer-and-sickle…Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Kerry to hold talks with Russian president Putin this week
It will be his first trip to Russia since the start of the Ukraine crisis, which has badly damaged relations between Moscow and the West.Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Ukraine’s rebels mete out rough justice in authority vacuum
A bruised rebel fighter in battle fatigues is tied to a traffic pole, avoiding glances as a crude message hung about his neck flutters in the wind: “I am a…Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
