Section: VICE News (USA)
Russia Has Made A Questionably Sincere Offer To Help Put Out Canada’s Forest Fires
It’s hard to tell whether it’s a legitimate offer, or a snide geopolitical belittling of one of its fiercest critics, but Moscow has extended an offer to Ottawa to help battle the raging forest fires in Fort McMurray which have displaced more than 80,000.In a statement released Thursday, Russian Minister Vladimir Puchkov offered to...
Russia Has Made A Questionably Sincere Offer To Help Put Out Canada’s Forest Fires
It’s hard to tell whether it’s a legitimate offer, or a snide geopolitical belittling of one of its fiercest critics, but Moscow has extended an offer to Ottawa to help battle the raging forest fires in Fort McMurray which have displaced more than 80,000.In a statement released Thursday, Russian Minister Vladimir Puchkov offered to...
Bloody Money (Trailer)
In 2014, Western countries made Ukrainians a promise. They pledged to recover money stolen by the country’s deposed president and his cronies, and to return it. Ukraine was in desperate need of funds, as it sought to repel a Russian invasion, to maintain basic services, to pay its foreign debt, and to end once and for all its crippling...
Russian Spies Are Reportedly Trying To Stop NATO And Sweden From Hooking Up
The Swedish state security police, or SAPO, is getting pretty worried about a dramatic uptick in Russian espionage activity in Sweden, according to leaks in the Swedish press. And SAPO is hinting that it’s related to the fact that Sweden is gearing up for a May 25 parliamentary debate about ratifying a “Host Nation Support...
Shell-Shocked: Ukraine’s Trauma
It’s been two years since pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine broke away from the rest of the country, triggering a war that has killed more than 9,000 people, displaced a million civilians, and left entire towns and villages in ruins.Ukraine’s government was wholly unprepared for the conflict, and its armed forces had been...
When War Becomes Routine: A Week With Ukraine’s Weary-Eyed Soldiers
The mercenary thought that he had left the battlefield for good before war slunk back into his life, unwelcome and unforeseen.Retirement had suited Makar. This soldier-of-fortune turned to civilian life following two decades in various martial tribes. Several years in the Soviet Army; a stint in an elite, Ukrainian police unit following the...
The Lessons Of Chernobyl May Be Different Than We Thought
Thirty years ago today, the Number 4 reactor at Chernobyl blew itself to smithereens, resulting in the worst nuclear disaster in history. A radiation cloud drifted over Europe, contaminating food sources that to this day continue to be monitored. Fifty-thousand residents in the nearby city of Pripyat were permanently evacuated. Dozens of people...
Chernobyl’s New And Improved Sarcophagus Will Contain The Disaster’s Radioactivity For A Century
Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, engineers are giving the epicenter of the long-defunct facility a facelift. With financial assistance from more than 40 nations, including the United States, workers are constructing a colossal structure that will contain the destroyed reactor and the sarcophagus that was built immediately after...
Shellshocked: Ukraine’s Trauma (Trailer)
It’s been two years since pro-Russia separatists in Eastern Ukraine broke away from the rest of the country, triggering a war that has killed more than 9,000 people, displaced 1 million civilians, and left entire towns and villages in ruins.Ukraine’s government was wholly unprepared for the conflict, and its armed forces had been...
How Russia Became The New Global Leader In The War On Drugs
This week, diplomats gathered at the United Nations in New York will adopt a document outlining the future of global drug policy a text that may have been better in the eyes of many advocates if it weren’t for one country: Russia. Moscow’s rise as the most vocal proponent of the drug war not only affects the pace of change worldwide,...
