Section: News & Summaries

      Debunking Russia’s Narrative of Rampant Anti-Semitism in Ukraine Again
      Aug04

      Debunking Russia’s Narrative of Rampant Anti-Semitism in Ukraine Again

      The Congress of National Communities of Ukraine’s latest reports on xenophobia in Ukraine have struck another blow to Moscow’s persistent attempts to present the country as a hotbed of anti-Semitism. The reports make no mention of the “pogroms” alleged by the Russian Foreign Ministry, nor do they back Russian President...

      Pro-Russian terrorists in Eastern Ukraine violated cease-fire 109 times during the past day – ATO Press Center
      Aug04

      Pro-Russian terrorists in Eastern Ukraine violated cease-fire 109 times during the past day – ATO Press Center

      PHOTO: Russian terrorists shelled at the village Avdiivka On August 4, 2015, the ATO Press Center reports that pro-Russian terrorists in Eastern Ukraine violated cease-fire 109 times over past day. Ukrainian military continue resisting illegal armed units in the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) area. On August 3, 2015, from 6 p.m. to midnight the...

      Retribution in the New Crimea
      Aug03

      Retribution in the New Crimea

      In March 2015, the Atlantic Council and Freedom House published a report by Crimean journalist Andrii Klymenko showing how Russia’s occupation and annexation of Crimea has unleashed an ongoing chain of human rights violations across the peninsula.Five days after release of the report—Human Rights Abuses in Russian-Occupied...

      NATO Commander: Russia’s use of force in Europe is a major threat
      Aug03

      NATO Commander: Russia’s use of force in Europe is a major threat

      NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Philip Breedlove discusses why Russia poses a major threat in Europe today. “Russia is a different case. This is a nation that for 20 years we have tried to make a partner. And in the last few years, we have seen that they’re on a different path. So now we have a nation that has used force to change...

      How Oligarchs Have Ruined Ukraine’s Economy and How to Fix It
      Aug03

      How Oligarchs Have Ruined Ukraine’s Economy and How to Fix It

      Ukraine finds itself in an economic crisis of massive proportions. In the past twelve months, its GDP has contracted by over 7.5 percent, the national deficit exceeds 10 percent, its currency has lost more than 50 percent of its value, its banks are insolvent and the national debt-to-GDP ratio has ballooned to more than 100 percent—causing a...

      Plane debris identified as Boeing 777

      Malaysian authorities confirmed that plane wreckage washed up on an Indian Ocean island was from a Boeing 777. ||| Kuala Lumpur – Malaysian authorities confirmed on Friday that plane wreckage washed up on an Indian Ocean island was from a Boeing 777, meaning the part is almost certainly from missing flight MH370.The debris, part of a plane...

      Euromaidan’s Shockwaves: An Exile in Ukraine Recalls Fleeing his Native Kyrgyzstan
      Jul30

      Euromaidan’s Shockwaves: An Exile in Ukraine Recalls Fleeing his Native Kyrgyzstan

      On a recent warm summer night, Ilya Lukash sat in a bar near Kyiv’s trendy Kontraktova Square, drinking a beer and chatting with his friends in Ukrainian, Russian, and English. In a red T-shirt emblazoned with patriotic Ukrainian slogans, he could easily have been any one of the countless young, educated, pro-democracy Ukrainians who in...

      Russia vetoes MH17 tribunal at UN

      Russia vetoed a UN resolution that sought to set up a special tribunal to try those responsible for shooting down flight MH17. ||| New York – Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Wednesday that sought to set up a special tribunal to try those responsible for shooting down flight MH17 over Ukraine.Eleven of the 15...

      Putin says opposes MH17 tribunal

      President Vladimir Putin said he opposed the creation of an international tribunal to prosecute those who shot down flight MH17. ||| Moscow – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he opposed the creation of an international tribunal to prosecute those who shot down a Malaysian airliner over eastern Ukraine, hours before a UN...

      Russia Threatens Ukrainian Pilot Nadiya Savchenko with 25-Year Jail Term
      Jul29

      Russia Threatens Ukrainian Pilot Nadiya Savchenko with 25-Year Jail Term

      Nadiya Savchenko, Ukraine’s most famous female military officer, has languished in a Moscow prison for more than a year since Moscow-backed separatists captured her in eastern Ukraine last June and smuggled across the border to Russia shackled, her head covered by a sack. Now her captors have moved her again—and again under the cover of...