TEMPLE — A new year, a new adventure is Janine Winn’s plan for 2017. On March 14, Winn, 68, will leave for three months of training before spending two years in Ukraine as a Peace Corps volunteer. “It is time to stop climbing ladders for other people,” she said of her business, Wildflower Walls, a […]
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Livermore nurse sends medical supplies, clothes to helps Ukraine soldiers
Cook, 60, a Ukrainian American, has family and friends in the country. Her parents came from Ukraine to Canada, then to the United States, where her father enlisted in the U.S. Army in World War II and saw combat in Germany. She is a first-generation Ukrainian American, born in California. She wears a paracord bracelet […]
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Putin’s creeping aggression proceeds
On Feb. 25, 2014 — two bloody years ago if you live in eastern Ukraine — Vladimir Putin’s Russia invaded Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula. Since then, the Kremlin has cleverly pursued its “creeping war of aggression” and its death toll — Russian and Ukrainian alike — continues to mount. Ukraine gets the worst of it, suffering […]
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Foreign students add international flavor to Rumford school
RUMFORD — Eight foreign exchange students — all young men — are finding life in this mill town has some similarities, as well as differences, from their homelands in Europe, South America and Australia. The students are living with local families while attending Mountain Valley High School. Katriel Czerniak of Brazil said having a paper […]
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Fareed Zakaria: Pick the best means to win the battle
NEW YORK — The deal announced Thursday to end the fighting in Ukraine will face the same obstacle the previous such agreement has faced — how to ensure that Russia will abide by it. Frustrated by Russia’s continued support for Ukrainian separatists, Western statesmen have begun discussing military assistance for the Ukrainian government. But in […]
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Austin Bay: Vladimir Putin’s creeping Ukraine invasion continues
Late last week pro-Kremlin separatist militias — aided and very likely led by “green men”— defeated the last band of Ukrainian “Cyborgs” defending Donetsk’s airport. Two years ago the airport was touted as one of Eastern Europe’s most modern air hubs. Today it is, like many neighborhoods in the Donetsk region and villages along the […]
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Charles Krauthammer: Obama’s indifference leaves Ukraine unprotected
WASHINGTON — At his first press briefing after the beheading of American James Foley, President Obama stunned the assembled when he admitted that he had no strategy in Syria for confronting the Islamic State. Yet it was not nearly the most egregious, or consequential, thing he said. Idiotic, yes. You’re the leader of the free […]
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Obama says Russian backed rebels in Ukraine shot down airliner
WASHINGTON — The United States began building a case Friday that would pin the blame for the downing of the passenger jet over Ukraine on separatist forces supported by Russia. President Barack Obama said one American was among the nearly 300 killed in an disaster that could dramatically escalate the crisis in Ukraine. Obama said […]
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Malaysian jet shot down over Ukraine
KIEV, Ukraine — A Ukrainian official said a passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down Thursday over a town in the east of the country, and Malaysian Airlines tweeted that it lost contact with one of its flights over Ukrainian airspace. Anton Gerashenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, said on his Facebook page […]
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Austin Bay: Ukrainian election shows resistance to Russia
Ukraine has won another important political battle in its war with the Kremlin. Ballots are not bullets but in Ukraine’s case, last Sunday’s presidential election confirmed the Ukrainian people’s will to resist Russian imperialism and defend their independence. International election monitors estimated 60 percent of the Ukrainian electorate voted on May 25. That is an […]