Section: Time (USA)
Here’s Why Europe is Taking on Russia’s Gazprom
Europe’s top antitrust regulator wants you to know she isn’t afraid. Only a week after accusing Google Inc. of abusive behavior, she’s now taking aim at another mean 800-pound-gorilla of an altogether different kind. Competition Commissioner Margarethe Vestager formally sent a “statement of objections” to Russian gas giant OAO...
European Union Opens Antitrust Case Against Russia’s Gazprom
BRUSSELS — The European Union is opening an antitrust case against Russia’s state-controlled Gazprom energy giant amid worsening relations between Brussels and Moscow. EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said Wednesday that Gazprom’s behavior in central and eastern European member states, where it sometimes almost fully...
Watch an Unbelievable Dust Storm Turn Belarus Into Tatooine
An incredible video has surfaced of a bizarre weather phenomenon that, within a matter of minutes, transformed day into night in the Belarus city of Soligorsk on Monday. Thankfully, while property damage was reported in the region, nobody was injured during the storm, says the Russian news outlet RT. A cold front near the border with Ukraine...
Thieves Stole More Than $5 Million Worth of Chanel Jewels in a Paris Smash-And-Grab
A Taiwanese art collector was robbed Thursday of nearly $5.4 million (€5 million) worth of Chanel jewels near Paris, France when her taxi was traveling through a long tunnel between the city and Charles De Gaulle airport that has become infamous for theft. French police are hunting three perpetrators who smashed the car window and snatched the...
Ukrainian Ally of Ousted President Found Dead
A former member of the Ukrainian parliament who opposed the popular movement that ousted President Viktor Yanukovich was found dead with gunshot wounds in Kiev. The Ukrainian Interior Ministry said in a statement that the body of Oleg Kalashnikov, 52, was discovered Wednesday evening. Kalashnikov was involved in the “anti-Maidan” protests in...
Here Are the 5 Things TIME 100 Says About the World
The annual TIME 100 list of the world’s most influential people is out—and looking very international. Fifty-one selectees were born outside the U.S., ranging from national leaders like Tunisia’s Beji Caid Essebsi to financiers like Brazilian multi-billionaire Jorge Paulo Lemann to artists like the novelist Haruki Murakami—a favorite...
How We Pick the TIME 100
In our annual TIME 100 issue, we tell 100 stories of individual influence. But taken together, these stories are an anthem to interaction, the convergence that occurs when you harmonize a good idea. The technology that connects us also connects our worlds, of art and science and business and politics. So when we were debating whom to approach to...
Fighting in Eastern Ukraine Rages On Overnight Despite Talks
(DONETSK, Ukraine) — Fighting raged overnight and in the early hours on Tuesday on the outskirts of the rebel stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine despite an agreement reached by the Ukrainian and Russian foreign ministers a day earlier. The yearlong military conflict between Russian-backed rebels and government forces has claimed more than...
Russia, Ukraine Agree on Withdrawal of Smaller-Caliber Arms
(BERLIN) — Russia and Ukraine agreed Monday to call for the pullback of smaller caliber weapons from the front lines in eastern Ukraine as part of a fresh push to end the region’s yearlong conflict. Foreign ministers from the two countries — meeting with their French and German counterparts in Berlin — also agreed to support international...
Vladimir Putin Wins TIME 100 Reader’s Poll
Russian President Vladimir Putin is the winner of this year’s TIME 100 reader’s poll. Putin edged out rapper-singer CL (of the South Korean girl-group 2NE1) to claim the number one spot with 6.95% of the votes in the final tally. Pop stars Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Taylor Swift rounded out the top five with 2.6%, 1.9% and 1.8% of the...
