Section: Voice of America (USA)
Russian Deputy PM Says No Plans to Ban McDonald’s
Russian authorities are not planning to close the McDonald’s chain in the country, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich was quoted saying on Saturday, after inspectors visited a number of restaurants run by the fast-food company. “No one is talking about it at all [a ban on McDonald’s in Russia],” Dvorkovich was quoted...
Convoy for Ukraine Returns to Russia
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Convoy Destined for Ukraine Returns to Russia
Around 200 trucks in a disputed Russian aid convoy destined for rebel-held eastern Ukraine have returned to Russia. It remained unclear Saturday what material the Russian convoy was carrying. Associated Press journalists who followed the convoy to Luhansk on Friday said rattling sounds from some trailers suggested they were not fully loaded. On...
Russian Convoys Enter Ukraine Without Permission
Russian aid trucks have crossed the border into Ukraine’s war-ravaged eastern city of Luhansk without permission from the government in Kyiv. The United States and European Union have condemned the move and are asking Moscow to withdraw the convoy. Russia has amassed thousands of troops on the border, raising concerns that it could use the...
In East, Ukrainians Await Much-Needed Aid
On a park bench steps from Lenin Square in downtown Kramatorsk, Tatiana, a refugee who escaped the conflict in nearby separatist-held Horlovka, sits quietly in the shade. She says she came to this city a month ago, as fighting intensified between Ukrainian armed forces and rebel fighters back home. Staying with a friend, Tatiana had nothing when...
Russian Aid Convoy Crosses Into Ukraine
Witnesses say the first trucks from a Russian aid convoy crossed the border into Ukraine after Moscow said it was tired of waiting for Kyiv’s permission to move forward. Russia’s foreign ministry said in a statement Friday that all excuses for the delay have been “exhausted” and that the convoy was heading toward the...
Ukraine Border Guards Begin Approving Russian Aid Convoy
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‘Ambiguous Warfare’ Provides NATO With New Challenge
Since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in March, NATO has been publicly refocusing on its old Cold War foe Moscow. The threats it now believes it faces, however, are distinctly different to those of the latter half of the 20th century. The West then was defending against the risk of Soviet armor pouring across the North German plain. Now,...
Businesses Wonder Who’s Next After Russia Targets McDonald’s
Russia said on Thursday it was investigating dozens of McDonald’s restaurants, in what many businessmen said was retaliation for Western sanctions over Ukraine they fear could spread to other symbols of Western capitalism. Russia’s food safety watchdog said it was looking at possible breaches of sanitary rules at McDonald’s, but...
Ukraine Economy Minister Resigns, Cites Frustrations
Ukrainian Economy Minister Pavlo Sheremeta announced his resignation on Thursday, voicing his frustration at not being able to push ahead with much-needed economic reform. Politically inexperienced, Sheremeta, 43, was appointed economy minister on February 27 in the government of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, days after former leader Viktor...
