Section: The Washington Post (USA)
Ukraine just won a big international legal battle, and the prize is Scythian gold
MOSCOW — In one corner, the government of Ukraine. In the other, four museums on the disputed peninsula of Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014. The prize? A trove of precious Scythian gold, ceremonial daggers and helmets and amulets made by the fearsome horseback nomads who ruled parts of Ukraine and Russia from 600 B.C. to 300 A.D. and who,...
Russian ambassador to Swedish television: ‘We have no plans whatsoever to invade Sweden’
Good news from Scandinavia: Russia is not going to invade Sweden. At least that’s what Viktor Tatarintsev, the Russian ambassador to Sweden, is saying. Tatarintsev was being interviewed by Swedish public broadcaster SVT about Crimea on Wednesday evening, when he decided to publicly dismiss concerns that Russia had its eyes on Swedish...
More Americans support torture than Afghans, Iraqis and South Sudanese. Why?
The United States has a higher tolerance for torture than any other country on the United Nations Security Council, and Americans are more comfortable with torture than citizens of war-torn countries like Afghanistan, Iraq and Ukraine. Those are two key findings reported by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Monday, in a […]...
After Brexit and Trump’s victory, Europeans are beginning to like the E.U. again
LONDON — Europe appears to have gotten used to crises by now. The war in Ukraine, the influx of refugees and the Greece’s debt woes have divided the continent. Surprisingly, two very different events that are being perceived as catastrophic in Europe could now help glue the political union back together. First, Britain voted to leave the...
Ukrainians worry they’re the big losers in the U.S. election
Trump’s friendliness toward Russia doesn’t play well in Kiev, but some are looking for a bright side. …read more Source: The Washington...
Pro-Russia media star ‘Motorola’ killed by ‘Ukrainian Nazis,’ rebels claim
MOSCOW — He bragged about being a cold-blooded killer, and videotaped battles with his helmet cam. And along the way, this former car wash worker became an unlikely, pro-Kremlin media star in rebel-held Ukraine – where he met his end late Sunday in a mysterious explosion that roared up the elevator shaft in his apartment […] …read more...
Your friends in Moscow would like to offer a frank appraisal of your U.S. elections
MOSCOW — “English is not my mother tongue, I don’t know whether this may sound decent,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov began, as though channeling an overwhelmed exchange student. He had been asked what he thought about Donald Trump’s “Pussy” moment. Well, actually, he had been asked about Trump’s...
War in Ukraine helps smugglers in the black market get richer
KIEV — A separatist commander is gunned down while dining in a Moscow restaurant. Law enforcement agents uncover a makeshift underground pipeline pumping oil from Russia into a Ukrainian border village. Rebel leaders carry out a widespread purge in one of Ukraine’s breakaway regions, detaining senior officials and military personnel alike....
U.S. hacking charges fail to impress Russians. They just think we hate them.
MOSCOW — It’s kind of hard these days for Russians to get too worked up by angry statements from Washington about their leaders. What with sanctions over Crimea, tensions in Syria and saber-rattling in the Baltics, many here believe their country is already in a slowly simmering cold war with the United States, or serves as a convenient […]...
A Russian company is selling children’s beds modeled after the missile launcher that downed MH17
Even in the most carefree times, a children’s bed fashioned after a missile launcher would probably raise eyebrows. But a Russian furniture company has drawn ire for selling a bed frame modeled after the Buk surface-to-air missile system that a Dutch-led inquiry has concluded shot down a passenger plane over Ukraine in 2014, killing all 298...
