Section: Voice of America (USA)
FSB Raids Offices Of Moscow-Based Human Rights Group
Agents of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) have raided the offices of Russia Justice Initiative (RJI), a human rights group in Moscow.The group’s press secretary, Ksenia Babich, wrote on her Facebook page that officers said the August 14 searches were being conducted on the basis of a search warrant for the whole building,...
VOA Interview: Russian Opposition Deputy Leonid Volkov
This story originated in VOA’s Russian Service. WASHINGTON – VOA Russian Service’s Danila Galperovich caught up with Leonid Volkov, fundraising chief for prominent Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, to discuss the recent street protests and mass arrests in Moscow.The interview occurred just hours after Russian officials...
Ukraine’s President Offers Citizenship to Russian Political Refugees
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a decree Tuesday offering citizenship to Russians suffering political persecution, and also to foreigners who fought on Kyiv’s side in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.Zelenskiy had announced such a move last month in response to a Russian decree expanding the number of Ukrainians who can apply...
Kyiv Protests Putin’s Visit to Annexed Crimea
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has protested Russian President Vladimir Putin’s latest visit to Ukraine’s Crimea region, calling a it a “gross violation” of the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”Attempts by the Russian side and the mass media to describe such ‘visits’ as...
US-Based Experts Suspect Russia Blast Involved Nuclear-Powered Missile
U.S.-based nuclear experts said Friday they suspected an accidental blast and radiation release in northern Russia this week occurred during the testing of a nuclear-powered cruise missile vaunted by President Vladimir Putin last year.The Russian Ministry of Defense, quoted by state-run news outlets, said that two people died and six were injured...
Escape Room
If you like mysteries, you’ll love the Escape Room. It’s a live-action game where players use clues and solve tasks to escape from a room in a limited amount of time. VOA Ukrainian; Reporter: Maxim Moskalkov, Camera: Andrey Degtyarev; Adapted by:Zdenko Novacki …read more Source: Voice of...
US Envoy Tells Germany: Spend More on Defense or We Move Troops to Poland
An envoy of U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Friday that Chancellor Angela Merkel’s unwillingness to boost defense spending might give the United States no choice but to move American troops stationed in Germany to Poland.The comments by Richard Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, signal Trump’s impatience with...
US, Ukraine Diplomats: West Underestimated Russian Threat in 2008
This story originated in VOA’s Georgian and Ukrainian services.Eleven years after Russian tanks rolled through a mountain tunnel in the Greater Caucasus mountains to invade neighboring Georgia, State Department officials say the U.S. underestimated the geopolitical implications for all of Western Europe. “What happened 11 years ago...
Scientists Produce Radioactivity-Free Chernobyl Vodka
A team of British scientists has helped produce a radioactivity-free vodka called “ATOMIK” from crops near the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the University of Portsmouth said on Thursday.The team did find some radioactivity in the grain but said the normal distillation process meant the only radioactivity in the alcohol...
Zelenskiy Says Called Putin After 4 Ukrainian Soldiers Killed in East
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says he has spoken with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, after four Ukrainian soldiers were killed in shelling in eastern Ukraine.”I called him urgently. I told him that this brings us no closer to peace,” Zelenskiy said during a news briefing in Kyiv, adding that he had urged...
