Section: The New York Times (USA)
NATO Introduces Warsaw Summit
Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO secretary general, said that troops needed to be placed in Poland to address growing international problems, citing Russia’s aggression toward Ukraine and the refugee crisis. …read more Source: The New York...
U.N. Suspends Torture Inquiry in Ukraine
Agency investigators left the country a day early after being denied access to sites under control of the domestic intelligence agency, the team’s leader said. …read more Source: The New York...
Russia and Ukraine Agree on Prisoner Swap
The Ukrainian news media reported that a helicopter pilot, Lt. Nadiya V. Savchenko, was on a jet to be swapped for two Russians captured in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: The New York...
Op-Ed Contributor: Russia Is Trying to Wipe Out Crimea’s Tatars
More than two years after Putin annexed the peninsula, the world has turned a blind eye. …read more Source: The New York...
Ukraine’s Eurovision Win Rouses a Chorus of Anger and Suspicion in Russia
Russians are fulminating about an “information war” and blaming the United States after a Ukrainian beat their nation’s odds-on favorite in the song contest. …read more Source: The New York...
Food Theft in Italy May Not Be a Crime, Court Rules
The country’s Supreme Court of Cassation threw out the conviction of a homeless Ukrainian man who tried to steal cheese and sausage, saying he acted “in a state of need.” …read more Source: The New York...
9,333 Killed Since Ukraine Conflict Began, U.N. Says
More than 20,000 people have been wounded in the conflict that began in April 2014, a United Nations official said. …read more Source: The New York...
Tatar Legislature Is Banned in Crimea
Tatars, who were the lone voice of opposition to Russia’s annexation of Crime, have often been subject to harassment there. …read more Source: The New York...
Chernobyl’s Silent Exclusion Zone (Except for the Logging)
Thirty years later, there are signs of commercial clear-cutting in supposedly off-limits forests around the site of the nuclear disaster in Ukraine. …read more Source: The New York...
Inside Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone
Some young Ukrainians have made a hobby of going to the zone, set aside in perpetuity after the nuclear plant catastrophe 30 years ago. …read more Source: The New York...