Section: The Daily Beast (USA)
Ukrainians Say FBI Questioning Them About Manafort—At Last
KIEV—The Ukrainian parliamentarian Mustafa Nayyem says the FBI has come to him at last, asking about Paul Manafort, who had a long record as a political operative serving pro-Russian figures here before he became the campaign manager for Donald Trump last year. at The Daily Beast. …read more Source: The Daily...
The Little Girls Orphaned By Ukraine’s War
Whoever in Washington D.C. is responsible for thinking about how to end the violent conflict between Russia and Ukraine, they should read about the tragedy that happened to three families in the Donbas region this past weekend. at The Daily Beast. …read more Source: The Daily...
Kiev’s Battle of the Rainbow: Gays, Thugs, and a Soviet Monument
KIEV—A giant banner unfurled over Kiev’s central Maidan Square last week: an enormous broken chain stretched from black smoke, symbolizing the revolution that took place in this very place three years ago, and stretching, through broken links, to a gap to the blue sky: Ukraine’s happy future with Europe. at The Daily Beast....
Kiev’s Battle of the Rainbow: Gays, Thugs, and a Soviet Monument
KIEV—A giant banner unfurled over Kiev’s central Maidan Square last week: an enormous broken chain stretched from black smoke, symbolizing the revolution that took place in this very place three years ago, and stretching, through broken links, to a gap to the blue sky: Ukraine’s happy future with Europe. at The Daily Beast....
Russia’s Alt-Right Rasputin Says He’s Steve Bannon’s Ideological Soul Mate
MOSCOW—The Russian political philosopher Alexander Dugin is banned from traveling to the United States because his calls for violence helped inspire the pro-Moscow insurgency in eastern Ukraine in 2014. But if America’s leading ideologue today, Steve Bannon, were to visit Moscow, Dugin, a 55-year-old with a long beard and ultra-conservative...
No, America Didn’t Ruin Russian Democracy
For those following the post-Soviet space over the past few years, the historical revisionism on display has been enough to cause serial whiplash. Claims that Crimea has “always been Russian” have competed with the sudden notion that Washington promised a Russian government that NATO would never expand, all swirling amongst beliefs that...
Anti-Putin Exile Gunned Down in Kiev
Denis Vornonenko was once part of the Moscow elite. Then he fled Russia and started to speak out against Russian security services. Now hes dead. …read more Source: The Daily...
Trump’s Man and the Maidan Massacre?
As the court in Kiev puts police on trial for the Maidan slaughter, the big question is who ordered the killing. …read more Source: The Daily...
Lost Trump Job, Now Works for Oligarch
Plagiarism disqualified her from joining the U.S. National Security Council, but a Fox News contributor just registered as a lobbyist for a Ukrainian billionaire. …read more Source: The Daily...
Russian Spy Whistleblowers Turn on Putin
A husband and wife who were members of the Russian parliament have defected to Ukraine. The Kremlin calls them ?enemies of the people.? Enemies of Putin is more like it. …read more Source: The Daily...
