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These Are The Most Dangerous Countries For Journalists In 2016
World Press Freedom Day, while celebrating advances in free media and protection for journalists, is often a sobering reminder of just how little press freedom exists in many parts of the world. It’s evidenced by the World Press Freedom Index, released on April 20 by Reporters Without Borders (also known as Reporters Sans...
Enough! It’s Time for the UN to Stop the Attacks on Hospitals
Last Wednesday, airstrikes obliterated Al Quds Hospital in Aleppo. They blew apart at least 50 men, women and children. It killed one of the last remaining pediatricians in the city. A murderous airstrike. There were almost 300 airstrikes in Aleppo over the last 10 days. Civilians, often in crowds, were repeatedly struck. What are individuals in...
Sergiy Taran on Ukraine’s Recent Political Turmoil, Interview with Kiev’s International Democracy Institute Director
Sergiy Taran is the Director of the Kiev-based International Democracy Institute think tank, and the head of the Board of the Center of Sociological and Political Researches “Sotsiovimir”. Taran is also an activist and political scientist specializing in post-Communist Ukrainian politics. His opinions on Ukrainian politics have...
Russian Fighter Barrel Roles Over U.S. Air Force Plane
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Saturday it had sent a fighter plane on Friday to intercept a U.S. aircraft approaching its border over the Baltic Sea because the American plane had turned off its transponder, which is needed for identification.The Pentagon said the U.S. Air Force RC-135 plane had been flying a routine route in...
Russia Defends Intercept Of U.S. Reconnaissance Plane Over Baltic
Russia said on Saturday it had sent a fighter plane on Friday to intercept a U.S. aircraft approaching its border over the Baltic Sea because the American plane had turned off its transponder, which is needed for identification.The Pentagon said the U.S. Air Force RC-135 plane had been flying a routine route in international airspace and that the...
Weekend Roundup: Chernobyl Remains a Warning Against a New Nuclear Arms Race
This week marks the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe. More than an accident, it was the beginning of the meltdown of the Soviet Union and defrosting of the Cold War. Mikhail Gorbachev has written that Chernobyl “was an historic turning point” and “perhaps the real cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union...
U.S. Foreign Policy Got In The Way Of Helping Greece, Greek Ex-Official Says
The United States did not pressure Germany more heavily to give Greece debt relief because it needed Germany’s cooperation in higher-priority foreign policy matters, according to a former Greek finance minister. Yanis Varoufakis, the ex-cabinet official who became famous as the face of Greek defiance in the first half of 2015, said the...
All You Need To Know About The UK’s Anti-Semitism Scandal
A spate of anti-Semitic incidents escalated in British politics this week — and forced the country’s center-left Labour Party to do some serious soul-searching about its members and values.Here’s what you need to know:A Prominent British Politician Made Some Incendiary Anti-Semitic RemarksKen Livingstone, the former mayor of...
The Former Soviet Union’s Growing Penchant for Expelling Foreign Journalists
Image: Savik Shuster, a TV talkshow host in Ukraine, began a hunger strike on Tuesday to protest the government’s decision to revoke his work permit. Shuster says the move is politically motivated. By Aleksandrit (CC BY-SA 3.0/Wikipedia) Journalist Savik Shuster knows what it’s like to get expelled from a former Soviet country for his...
Ukraine’s Giant Easter Egg Festival Is A Feast For The Eyes
While many Christians in the world emptied out their Easter baskets weeks ago, for Orthodox Christians, the celebration is just getting started.Easter falls on May 1 on the Orthodox Christian calendar. There’s no mistaking the festive atmosphere in Kiev, Ukraine, where residents are marking the occasion with an annual Easter Egg festival.In...
