Section: The Washington Post (USA)
The base jumpers say they were standing up for Ukraine. Russia says they were ‘inciting hatred.’
MOSCOW – Moscow does not lack for political trials this summer, but the strangest one involves four Russian base-jumpers and a Ukrainian roofer nicknamed Mustang Wanted. One year ago today, Russians in the capital awoke to find that the Soviet star atop one of Moscow’s iconic seven-sisters buildings, the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building,...
Ukraine toppled Communist statues but raised a bigger debate
A new law to erase symbols of the nation’s communist past has sparked questions about national identity. …read more Source: The Washington...
Ex-Georgian president trying to save Ukraine from Russia’s orbit
Mikheil Saakashvili warred with Russia. Now he is waging a new battle that could determine Ukraine’s future. …read more Source: The Washington...
Female Ukrainian war hero facing 25 years in Russian jail
The trial of the captured officer, charged in the deaths of two Russian journalists, has heightened tensions. …read more Source: The Washington...
Ukraine blacklists Gerard Depardieu
French actor Gerard Depardieu won’t be allowed to enter Ukraine for the next five years in light of comments he made that seemed to suggest he supported Russia’s annexation of Crimea. …read more Source: The Washington...
Watch: Two men walk around Ukraine’s capital holding hands, and get beat up by neo-Nazis
A recent video shot in Moscow showed what happened when two men walked around the city holding hands. The hidden camera captured the pair being insulted and threatened – and how they escaped violence only by admitting they were just doing a social experiment. [Watch: What happens when two men walk around Moscow holding hands] A […] …read...
U.S. troops to train regular Ukrainian military
U.S. troops will begin training regular Ukrainian military forces later this year in an expansion of their current mission, the State Department said Friday. …read more Source: The Washington...
Rare Siberian tiger triplets born in Crimea
Crimea’s safari park, which claims to be the biggest lion and tiger park in Europe, welcomed rare Siberian tiger triplets in July. Zoologists say the healthy tiger cubs are being looked after by their mother, Gretta. …read more Source: The Washington...
Despite past quarrels with Russia, Georgians are returning to its orbit
TBILISI, Georgia – In this fiercely pro-Western nation that fought a brief war with Russia in 2008, few thought the Kremlin could ever regain a toehold. But with the West backing away from Georgia’s path to E.U. and NATO membership after a year of conflict in Ukraine, pro-Russian sentiments are on the rise.Read full article >>...
Russians boycott European meeting after Finland denies visas to 6 officials
VIENNA — A diplomatic row is brewing between Russia and Finland over Helsinki’s refusal to grant entry visas to six Russian officials who are on a sanctions blacklist over the crisis in Ukraine.Sergei Naryshkin, the speaker of the lower house of the Russian parliament, was among those barred from traveling to Helsinki this weekend for a...
