Section: Voice of America (USA)
Ukraine’s Rural Villages Long for Government Help
The stained-glass windows of Podilske’s towering concrete cultural hall radiate the idealized vision of Ukraine’s Soviet past: bucolic scenes of bountiful wheat fields, agricultural mechanization and content families toiling the land for the greater good. The modern reality is very different. Many of the village houses and farms are...
Ukraine’s Rural Villages Long for Government Assistance
As Ukraine prepares to choose its next president in elections scheduled Sunday, one of the biggest challenges remains its sluggish economy. Henry Ridgwell reports from Podilske, one hundred and forty kilometers southeast of Kyiv, where the local mayor is trying to stop the exodus of young people leaving the village. …read more Source: Voice...
Facebook Blocks More Accounts Over Influence Campaigns
Facebook said Tuesday it shut down more than 2,600 fake accounts linked to Iran, Russia, Macedonia and Kosovo and aiming to influence political sentiment in various parts of the world. It was the latest effort by the leading social network to shut down “inauthentic” accounts on Facebook and Instagram seeking to influence politics in...
Ukraine Set to Choose its Next President
Ukraine is getting set to choose a new president – with the first round of voting scheduled for March 31. The leading two candidates will then face a run off two weeks later to determine who will lead a country still at war with Russia. As Henry Ridgwell reports from Kyiv, the election now appears to be a three-way race between the incumbent...
The Comedian, the Miracle Worker, the Incumbent: Ukraine Set to Choose Next President
Ukraine is preparing to choose a new president, with the first round of voting in scheduled for Sunday. The leading two candidates then will then face a run off two weeks later. The winner faces daunting challenges in a country struggling to tackle corruption and kick-start a sluggish economy, and still at war with Russian-backed rebels in the...
Mueller Report Draws No Immediate Reaction From Moscow
It was late Saturday evening in Moscow and almost 24 hours since the news that special counsel Robert Mueller submitted his long-awaited report to the U.S. attorney general had reached Russia’s capital. But both the Kremlin and the country’s Foreign Ministry were quiet. While no details of the inquiry were made public, a single...
Former US Diplomats Slam Response to 2018 Russian Attack on Ukrainian Ships
Recent Western-imposed sanctions targeting Russia — spawned by a naval attack on Ukrainian soldiers on the Sea of Azov late last year — are too little, too late, say former top U.S. emissaries to the region. The United States, in coordination with Canada and the European Union, leveled the sanctions on more than a dozen Russian officials and...
Ukrainian MP Demands Evidence of Alleged ‘No Prosecute’ List
A Ukrainian parliamentarian is asking Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko to prove allegations he recently made that Marie Yovanovitch, U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, gave him a list of people who should not be prosecuted — a claim quickly rejected by the United States. “The statement of Ukraine’s prosecutor-general does not correspond to...
Poland Snubs Russia Before World War II Commemoration
Polish authorities have refused to invite a Russian delegation to a commemoration ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. Krzysztof Szczerski, an aide to the Polish president, said Wednesday in comments carried by the Polish news agency PAP that Russia hasn’t been invited to the events in September because of...
Kremlin Accuses US of Stoking Tensions by Flying Bombers Near Its Borders
The Kremlin on Thursday complained that flights by U.S. nuclear-capable B-52 strategic bombers across the Baltic Sea near Russia’s borders were creating tensions in the region, but Washington said they were needed to deter potential adversaries. Russia’s Defense Ministry said earlier on Thursday that it had scrambled two Sukhoi SU-27...
