President Joe Biden’s administration has announced $400 million in new weapons aid to Ukraine, including four additional HIMARS rocket systems, and is making plans to keep supplying such hardware to Kiev for “months and years ahead.” A Pentagon official spoke of planning efforts to meet Kiev’s short- and long-term weaponry …
Read More »US stocks off to worst start in over 50 years
US stock futures continued to decline Friday morning after the worst start to a year in decades. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 0.7% in pre-market trading, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 are sliding 0.67% and 0.59% respectively. Stock extended losses from Thursday’s session, with the Dow …
Read More »EU warned of years of high gas prices ahead
Gas prices in the EU will remain high for several more years, Russia’s vice-premier and former energy minister, Aleksander Novak said on Friday, warning of serious problems across Europe when the autumn-winter period starts. Speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, he said that the bloc needs to pump another …
Read More »UK’s biggest rail strike in 30 years to go ahead
One of Britain’s fastest growing labor unions announced on Saturday that a series of planned strikes on the rail network and London Tube next week will be held. The action is expected to become the biggest walkout on the railway network in 30 years. Following weeks of negotiations between the …
Read More »The Russian language in post-Soviet Ukraine: 30 years of discrimination against the country’s most popular tongue
If you go to Ukraine and walk through the streets of Kiev, Vinnitsa, Chernigov, or Kharkov, it may seem like you’re in Moscow or Rostov-on-Don, as the majority of the people in these cities speak Russian. At the same time, Ukraine is a country with one of the harshest language …
Read More »Levees rebuilt 17 years after Hurricane Katrina wrecked New Orleans
The US Army Corps of Engineers has finally finished rebuilding the system of levees, floodgates, and other protections surrounding the city of New Orleans. Stronger and more extensive than the structures it replaced, the flood-prevention system is the “largest civil works project in the Corps’ history,” Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards announced …
Read More »Ukraine ‘15 or 20 years away’ from joining EU – France
No fast-track accession of Ukraine to the European Union is possible and the process will take a “very long” time, French European Affairs Minister Clement Beaune said on Sunday. “We have to be honest. If we say that Ukraine will join the EU in six months, one year or two …
Read More »Turkey should veto NATO expansion for next 20 years – retired general
Turkey should take full advantage of the historic opportunity provided by Finland and Sweden’s bids to join NATO, a retired Turkish Brigadier General Naim Baburoglu has said. The two Nordic nations have applied to become members of the US-led military bloc in the wake of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine. …
Read More »51 years of RFE/RL: How the CIA-founded American state run media outlet survived the Soviet collapse to fight Cold War 2.0
The first of May marks the 51st anniversary of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (hereinafter “RFE/RL”, although this didn’t become the official name until 1976) – radio stations which broadcast into Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, respectively. As detailed in an internal CIA document from 1951 titled “Radio Aims and Objectives,” …
Read More »Tennis icon Becker jailed for 2.5 years in London
German tennis icon Boris Becker has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail by a UK court after he was found to have violated terms of his 2017 bankruptcy. The former world number one was found guilty earlier this month in London, the same city in which he won his three Wimbledon …
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