Russia
Mar. 12, 13:31
The aircraft, on a scheduled flight en route to the Severny airfield near Ivanovo, crashed in a wooded area shortly after takeoff with its right outboard engine visibly ablaze.
Mar. 10, 12:36
On a fateful day in February 2022, I found myself praying in two religions for two Marias in a world where narcissism and conflict cause immeasurable pain.
Mar. 9, 16:07
The world in focus, as seen by a Canadian leading global affairs analyst, writer and speaker, in his review of international media.
War in Ukraine
Mar. 8, 17:14
The UN expert said that the Russian army's torture of military and civilian prisoners is so widespread that it "cannot be described away as aberrant behavior or ad hoc behavior."
HUR
Mar. 8, 16:23
In the intercepted phone call, the man also says limits on ammo usage led to the Wagner revolt last summer.
UN
Mar. 8, 16:05
Tikhanovskaya called on UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to intervene, saying that other Belarusian political prisoners had also been cut off from the outside world.
China
Mar. 8, 12:37
The Chinese delegation’s visit is part of Beijing’s “shuttle diplomacy” tour in an attempt to negotiate peace between Kyiv and Moscow, but Kyiv’s response might’ve been met with cold indifference.
Zelensky
Mar. 6, 17:43
The WSJ reported that last summer President Zelensky sent Ukrainian special forces, including intelligence officers, to the African country at the request of its leader, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.
Russia
Mar. 5, 08:59
Navalny, 47, who died in an Arctic prison colony, was laid to rest in Moscow on Friday, surrounded by crowds of defiant mourners who chanted his name.
War in Ukraine
Mar. 5, 05:00
Ottawa says CRV7 missiles en route to Kyiv soon; White House downplays leaked German video; AFU drops guided bomb on Russian target, with a note attached; Moscow inches westward from Avdiivka
Russia
Mar. 1, 13:23
Russia is ready to hand over to Ukraine the bodies of Ukrainian prisoners of war who were allegedly on board the IL-76 plane that crashed in the Belgorod region in late January.
Zelensky
Feb. 27, 17:23
Among the key topics of the bilateral talks between President Zelensky and Saudi Arabia leadership will be the Ukrainian peace formula and the return of POWs.
Ukraine
Feb. 27, 13:47
President Zelensky and your Bankova team: why the continuing double standards regarding Moscow’s vassal in Belarus, Aleksander Lukashenko?
UN
Feb. 26, 14:21
Friday’s speech at the UN Security Council by Poland’s Foreign Minister took aim at and “corrected” the comments used by Russia’s UN ambassador to justify the invasion of Ukraine.
War in Ukraine
Feb. 26, 04:42
Moscow’s “journalists” very quiet about two years of war; Russia knocking on the door on left bank, moving on Bakhmut front; More Ukrainian POWs murdered?
War in Ukraine
Feb. 25, 12:33
April to May 2022 – attacks on civilians increase as Putin’s ground invasion is repelled
Feb. 24, 15:01
The scale and number of outrages and war crimes committed by Russia on a daily basis since the Feb. 24, 2022 full-scale invasion have shocked the whole world.
War in Ukraine
Feb. 24, 12:09
Two years after Russia launched its full-scale attack to annul any remnant of an independent Ukraine, Putin’s genocidal intent is now impossible to deny.
Putin
Feb. 22, 08:35
The debates over the political, financial and even legal barriers to using frozen Russian assets to fund the immense reconstruction costs caused by the full-scale invasion of Ukraine rumble on.