Section: Voice of America (USA)
Ukrainian Court Finds Lviv Student Guilty of Torching RFE/RL Reporter’s Car
A Ukrainian court has found a university student guilty of torching an RFE/RL reporter’s car, a decision that the media organization’s president said brings prosecutors closer to apprehending the organizers of the premeditated crime. A court in the western city of Lviv on May 25 handed down a suspended five-year sentence with a...
Ukrainian President Accuses Journalist of Crossing Line; Editor Disputes It
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has accused a reporter of Skhemy (Schemes), a joint investigative project by RFE/RL and UA: Pershy television, of crossing the line of balanced journalism and breaking laws in pursuing the Ukrainian leader, a charge the group denies.During a news conference Wednesday to mark his first year in power, Zelenskiy singled...
Republican-Led US Senate Panel Backs Subpoena in Hunter Biden Probe
A Republican-led U.S. Senate committee authorized a subpoena on Wednesday for information in an investigation related to Hunter Biden, son of former Vice President Joe Biden, President Donald Trump’s main rival as he runs for re-election in November. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs voted 8-6, with every Republican voting...
2016 Repeat? Trump Revives Clinton Playbook to Battle Biden
Accusations of a “deep state” conspiracy. Allegations of personal and family corruption. Painting an opponent as a Washington insider not to be trusted. It’s 2016 again. Or at least that’s President Donald Trump’s hope. Trump and his allies are dusting off the playbook that helped defeat Hillary Clinton, reviving it...
Trump’s Former Campaign Chief Manafort Released from Prison
Paul Manafort, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former 2016 campaign chairman who later was convicted of tax and bank fraud, was released from prison Wednesday to serve the remainder of his seven-and-a-half-year term in home confinement.The 71-year-old Manafort had served a little more than a year of his term and was not due to be released...
Radical Russian Imperial Movement Expanding Global Outreach
The Russian Imperial Movement (RIM), a white supremacist group based in St. Petersburg, is increasingly expanding its outreach beyond Russia through the establishment of transnational networks with like-minded neo-Nazis and white supremacist groups, experts on the group warn.RIM adheres to an ultranationalist ideology and aims to bring...
Ukraine Media Leaders Sound Alarm on Oligarchical Control at Virtual VOA Town Hall
For the first time since achieving independence in 1991, Ukraine has ranked among the top 100 countries in the world for press freedom, according to Paris-based Reporters Without Borders.But observers and journalists on the ground in Kyiv paint a more nuanced picture of the former Soviet state’s media landscape.Although Ukraine climbed six...
Macron to Putin: Virus Crisis Shows Need for Peace-Building
France’s leader on Thursday called for closer cooperation with Russia as the world struggles against the coronavirus, recalling the joint Allied effort to defeat Nazi Germany that ended 75 years ago.In a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Emmanuel Macron expressed “the recognition of the French people”...
Freedom House Warns of Democratic Breakdown in Central, Eastern Europe
In its latest report, U.S.-based democracy monitor Freedom House warns of a “stunning democratic breakdown” across Central Europe, the Balkans, and Eurasia as many leaders in the region attempt to do away with any remaining checks on their power. “A growing number of leaders in Central and Eastern Europe have dropped even the...
Hungary: The First Dictatorship in the EU?
The establishment of one-man rule in the heart of Europe has enraged civil libertarians and Hungary’s opposition leaders, who accuse Viktor Orbán of manipulating the coronavirus pandemic to establish what’s effectively an elective dictatorship. Pressure is mounting on the European Union to take action against Hungary...
