Section: The Washington Post (USA)
Hundreds have gone missing in eastern Ukraine’s dirty war
Abuses by both sides have been documented by U.N. investigators. …read more Source: The Washington...
Trump calls Ukraine the thing Ukrainians hate the most
As President Trump greeted his Ukrainian counterpart, Petro Poroshenko, on Tuesday morning at the White House, he made an unfortunate slip. “It’s a great honor to be with President Proshenko of the Ukraine,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, “a place that we’ve all been very much involved in.” Trump was right: The United States...
TV in breakaway Ukraine has a distinct Soviet tint to it
Choreographed news reports highlight the rebel state’s wisdom and generosity. …read more Source: The Washington...
In new sanctions list, Ukraine targets Russian social-media sites
The sites to be blocked are among the most visited in the country. …read more Source: The Washington...
Trump’s tweet on Russia and Ukraine wasn’t just silly. It’s bad diplomacy.
Yesterday, on the same day- I had meetings with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the FM of Ukraine, Pavlo Klimkin.#LetsMakePeace! pic.twitter.com/SPiIrJqI6G — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 11, 2017 Last night, President Trump tweeted something kind of strange — a photo of him with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, pasted...
Amid Putin ‘bromance,’ Steven Seagal banned from Ukraine as national security threat
Steven Seagal, the American actor best known for his role in ’90s action movies like “Hard to Kill” and “Under Siege,” has been blacklisted from the Ukraine as a national security threat. Seagal is banned from entering the country for five years on grounds he has “committed socially dangerous actions… that contradict the...
A Ukrainian filmmaker imprisoned in Russia just won a Freedom to Write Award
It’s an honor that comes with a heavy dose of irony — PEN America just awarded its Freedom to Write Award to the acclaimed Ukrainian writer and filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, imprisoned in Russia. Sentsov, a filmmaker, has been an outspoken critic of Russia’s intervention in Ukraine. He joins a distinguished list of other imperiled honorees,...
What a murdered former Russian lawmaker said in one of his final interviews
KIEV — On Thursday, Denis Voronenkov, a former Russian lawmaker facing corruption charges in Moscow who fled to Ukraine and became a critic of President Vladimir Putin, was shot twice in the head and killed outside a posh hotel here in the country’s capital. Less than 72 hours earlier, he had given one of his final […] …read more...
Here are ten critics of Vladimir Putin who died violently or in suspicious ways
MOSCOW – Not everyone who has a quarrel with Russian President Vladimir Putin dies in violent or suspicious circumstances — far from it. But enough loud critics of Putin’s policies have been murdered that Thursday’s daylight shooting of a Russian who sought asylum in Ukraine has led to speculation of Kremlin involvement. Ukrainian...
New documents show Trump aide hid payments from Ukraine party with Moscow ties, lawmaker alleges
The documents released by a Ukrainian lawmaker claim Manafort laundered the payments through Belize. …read more Source: The Washington...
