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Oleh Rybachuk on Viktor Yushchenko, Interview with Former Ukrainian President’s Chief of Staff
Oleh Rybachuk was the Chief of Staff to former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, and the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for European Integration from February to September 2005. Rybachuk agreed to sit down for an interview with me on July 13, 2015. In that interview, Rybachuk shared his experiences and insights on the 2004 Ukrainian...
The Anxious Americans
AMERICANS are a pretty anxious people. Nearly one in five of us — 18 percent — has an anxiety disorder. We spend over $2 billion a year on anti-anxiety medications. College students are often described as more stressed than ever before. There are many explanations for these nerves: a bad job market, less cohesive communities, the constant...
Scott Walker Steers Clear Of Nuance On Foreign Policy
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, July 19 (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker had a steep learning curve on foreign policy after some early off-key statements. Now an eager student of global affairs, is staking out positions that play well to conservatives but lack a lot of nuance.This was clear from a weekend bus tour the...
Remembering Victims Of Flight MH17 With Ukrainian Sunflowers
A year after a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all aboard, a Dutch town is remembering the victims with Ukrainian sunflowers. Flight MH17 was hit by a missile over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, amid fighting between pro-Russian separatists and the Ukrainian government. The plane was destroyed by a...
MH17 Victims Mourned At Crash Site, Around The World On Anniversary
HRABOVE, Ukraine (AP) — In a solemn procession, residents of the Ukrainian village where a Malaysian airliner was shot down with 298 people aboard a year ago marched Friday to the crash site. Half a world away, Australia’s prime minister remembered the “savagery” of the attack as he unveiled a plaque in Canberra set in...
One Year After Flight MH17 Went Down, Culprits Still Not Brought To Justice
A boy waves a flag of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic at a memorial to the victims of the Malaysian Airlines MH17 plane crash at the crash site near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, July 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)MOSCOW (AP) — A year since a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was blown out of the sky...
John Boehner Says Iran Deal ‘Blows My Mind’
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s Iran nuclear deal “blows” House Speaker John Boehner’s mind, the Ohio Republican declared Thursday, vowing to do everything he can to scuttle the historic agreement.”Given everything I’ve seen so far, this is a bad deal. It paves the way for a nuclear Iran,”...
Ukraine Unveils Monuments To Recognize Jews Killed In Holocaust
LVIV, Ukraine (RNS) Ludvika Sarah Leah Schein, who survived the Holocaust, hadn’t been to her hometown in 70 years. But she still vividly remembers the day Germans came to Rava-Ruska.“We ran immediately into the forest,” Schein said, explaining how she and her two sisters narrowly escaped the Germans before a gentile family took them in....
Yevgeny Primakov- The Ideological Godfather of Putinism
On June 26, 2015, Yevgeny Primakov, Russian Foreign Minister from 1996-1998 and Prime Minister from 1998-1999, died at the age of 85. As one of the only prominent political figures with a leadership role in the Yeltsin regime to also be a close aide to Vladimir Putin, Primakov’s foreign policy ideas and ideological approaches have had a...
Srebrenica: Remembering the Lessons We Once Learned
The 20-year anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre this past weekend was a moment to honor and remember the barbaric slaughter by Bosnian Serb forces of over 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys over the course of a few bloody days back in July 1995. But it is also an opportunity to revisit the central lessons the international community learned and...
