SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s acting government issued a warrant Monday for the arrest of President Viktor Yanukovych, last reportedly seen in the pro-Russian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, accusing him of mass crimes against protesters who stood up for
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Protests in Caracas threaten both Venezuela and Cuba Mass murderer Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has 90th birthday Russia on top of the world as Sochi Olympics games end Protests in Caracas threaten both Venezuela
The Soviet Union imprisoned Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in the gulag after World War II, suppressed his writings during the Brezhnev years, and finally expelled him from his homeland in 1974. Forty years later, at the Sochi Winter Olympic Games, Russia celebrated
On Saturday, Ukraine’s parliament passed a resolution that kicked out President Viktor Yanukovich and set new elections on May 25, but it also voted out many department heads, while other posts resigned. Now Ukrainians need to structure a new government
It is finally calm in Ukraine’s capital Kiev after three months of active protests, but the Crimean peninsula is heating up. Protesters gathered in Sevastopol in Crimea to demonstrate against the actions of parliament in Kiev and declare their plans
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev weighed in on the political crisis in Ukraine and said it occurred because the country’s government did not act democratically. “Ultimately this is the result of the failure of the government to act democratically” and
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said that Russian President Vladimir Putin should be nervous after the recent unrest in Ukraine, and a partition of the country would be unacceptable. Appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation after a peace deal in which
The United States placed first for third-place finishes at Sochi. We’re #1–at being #3. It was a bronze medal kind of Olympic Games for Team USA, good but not great. Sochi featured twelve more events than Vancouver. Americans won nine
Ukraine’s parliament sprang into action on Sunday and voted their speaker Oleksandr Turchynov interim president until elections are held on May 25. They passed a resolution on Saturday that ousted President Viktor Yanukovich and called for early elections on May
In an appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) called President Barack Obama’s so-called reset of U.S. relations with Russia a failure…
Columnist Frank Rich broke out the Nazi comparison to slam NBC’s coverage of the Sochi Olympics for casting a blind eye on the many human rights violations going on in nearby Ukraine. In a February 21 piece for New York
With a power vacuum and what looks to be a long struggle to see who will rule in Kiev, the Associated Press reports today on the possibility of the Ukraine being split in two. Though supposedly ousted in a coup,
UPDATE 4:33 PM ET: This concludes our live update. For more on Ukraine, click here UPDATE 4:09 PM ET: Reuters reports that Ukraine’s border authorities said they had refused to allow ousted President Viktor Yanukovich to leave the country. The Interfax news
Ukraine’s parliament voted on Saturday to dismiss President Viktor Yanukovich and hold early elections on May 25. Parliament said Yanukovich was “not fulfilling his obligations” in the resolution calling for new elections. On Thursday, Yanukovich signed a deal with the
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Protesters took control of Ukraine’s capital Saturday, seizing the president’s office as parliament sought to oust him and form a new government. President Viktor Yanukovych described the events as a coup and insisted he would not
A plan to divide California into six separate US states is closer to making it on to a November ballot, with organizers gaining approval to collect signatures. The seemingly far-fetched initiative, sponsored by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper, claims
Yesterday afternoon there was talk of a new agreement been Ukraine’s Russia-aligned strongman, President Viktor Yanukovych, and the protesters gathered for an increasingly violent showdown in Kiev’s Independence Square. The last “truce” lasted a matter of hours before demonstrators, believing
Ukraine’s capital Kiev is literally on fire with the rest of the country falling apart around it. It has been in turmoil since late November, and the country needed something to make them smile. The women’s biathlon team won the
Hezbollah are recruiting European mercenaries to fight for Bashar Assad in Syria’s civil war, according to security sources. The Lebanese Daily Star newspaper reports that intelligence services received information on batches of mercenaries arriving at Rafik Hariri International Airport near
The US short track skaters won the silver medal in the 5000m team short track relay at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. It is the first US medal in overall speed skating, but they did not medal in
US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin will speak by telephone Friday following the deal to end the political crisis in Ukraine, a US official said. The call will take place later on Friday, the official said on
KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — The Italian Olympic Committee says bobsledder William Frullani has been kicked out of the Sochi Games after a positive doping test. In a statement Friday, Italy’s governing body CONI says it was informed by the
KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — Sarah Burke’s parents looked up the hill and saw the halfpipe workers making one last trip down in the formation of a heart. They looked the other direction and saw the scoreboard: Maddie Bowman of
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — In a day that could significantly shift Ukraine’s political destiny, opposition leaders signed a deal Friday with the country’s beleaguered president that calls for early elections, a new constitution and a new unity government. Russian officials
