BBC News: Video footage has emerged purporting to show security forces surrendering to anti-government protesters in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. However, the BBC Russia’s Olga Ivshina said the soldiers in the footage could be conscripts who were compelled
Russia cared about one thing in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia: the gold medal in men’s hockey. That will not happen because Finland beat them 3-1 on Wednesday. After the game the team faced a stunned and shocked
US skier Megan McJames did not initially make it on the US skiing team, but through hard work and generous donations she found a way to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Star skier Lindsey Vonn is out injured
Kiev, Ukraine’s capital, has been home to protesters since early December when President Viktor Yanukovich turned down a trade deal with the European Union (EU) in favor of a $15 billion bailout from Russia. The protests are escalating, and so
Vic Wild is from White Salmon, WA, but he won the gold in the men’s parallel giant slalom for Russia. His wife Alena Zavarzina won the bronze in the women’s event. Wild claimed he did not have any support in
The stray dogs in Sochi, Russia gained international fame when officials hired a private company to murder them before the games started. People immediately took action to save them, and American skier Gus Kenworthy said he was adopting four puppies.
Seventy-five-years ago, Finland fended off a Russian invasion. Today in Sochi, the Russians couldn’t fend off the Finnish invaders. As in 1939, the Russians struck first. Ilya Kovalchuk scored on a Russian power play at 7:51 of the first frame.
KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — A U.S. bobsledder who was not chosen for the Sochi Games calls the selection process “corrupt” and questions why Lolo Jones received a spot on the women’s Olympic roster. Chuck Berkeley, who made the 2010
KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — Bode Miller tweaked his surgically repaired left knee during the first run of Wednesday’s Olympic giant slalom and is out of the slalom race this weekend. .@MillerBode says he will not race this week’s #slalom
KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — Ted Ligety has created his own, unique way of skiing. And now, he’s in pretty elite company. Carving turns like nobody else, Ligety established a huge first-run lead and then comfortably held on to win
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Ukraine police storm protest camp in Kiev after bloody Tuesday Ukraine chaos raising the worst anxieties among Russia’s nationalists Thailand police storm protest camp in Bangkok, leaving four dead Ukraine police storm protest camp
A video from the RT news service shows emergency workers tending to injured protesters in the heart of Ukraine’s capital, Kiev. In the video, the opposition is holding a protest on a stage, and there are reports of snipers shooting
US snowboarder David Wise won the first ever gold medal in the freeski halfpipe in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The 23-year-old American scored 92 points even though the conditions were awful. Rain and snow poured on the
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Defiant protesters shouted “Glory to Ukraine” as burning tents lit up the night sky after thousands of riot police moved against the sprawling protest camp in the center of Kiev on Tuesday. The police, armed with
Try as they might, some commentators during the U.S.-Russian hockey game could not muster much credible moral argument for making a comparison between Sochi of 2014 and Lake Placid of 1980. Of course, we all wanted the US team to win this time, just
The United Nations opened this week up with a bang: an extensive report detaining the numerous human rights abuses in North Korea–from widespread rape and child abuse to using human corpses as fertilizer–and threatened to hold Kim Jong-Un personally liable. China
(Reuters) – An asteroid estimated to be the size of three football fields whizzed close to Earth on Monday, roughly a year after one exploded over Russia and injured 1,200 people.
A Russian activist has reported that two members of Pussy Riot punk band arrested in Sochi, the Associated Press reports. The story is developing.
Fans went to a gay-rights protest Monday night and a hockey game broke out. Authorities in Sochi detained a former Italian legislator protesting at the Olympic Games for homosexual and transgender rights on Monday. Police removed Vladimir Luxuria, a man
SOCHI, Russia (AP) — So far during the Winter Olympics, Vladimir Putin hasn’t shown off his pecs, scuba-dived to a treasure site or engaged in any sort of the he-man stunts he’s known for. But the Russian president’s vigor and
Shame on NBC. That was the sentiment on the internet after NBC reporter Christin Cooper hounded and pushed American skier Bode Miller to talk about his deceased brother after his historic bronze medal win in the super-G. On Sunday, American
Iran’s ambassador to Moscow on Monday said Russia could build the Islamic republic a second nuclear power reactor in exchange for massive oil shipments that have raised grave concern in Washington. Ambassador Mehdi Sanaei said the two close trading partners
America’s energy boom is about to take another huge leap forward as the State of Alaska is on the verge of approving the $50 billion All-Alaskan Gas Pipeline (AAGP). The massive project will transport “stranded” North Slope natural gas south
American skier Bode Miller, 36-years-old, finally made it on the podium at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. He won the bronze medal in the men’s super-G on Sunday. He became the “To be on the podium, it’s a
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Anti-government demonstrators in Ukraine’s capital ended their nearly three-month occupation of Kiev City Hall on Sunday as promised in exchange for the release of all jailed protesters. But tensions remained high as hundreds stayed outside the
