by News Decoder | 24 Sep 2019 | Europe
By Julian Nundy An exchange of prisoners has always been a priority among moves needed to restart efforts to end Ukraine’s war with pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukrainian Donbass region, a conflict that has killed an estimated 13,000 people in five years....
by News Decoder | 17 Jun 2019 | Eyewitness
By Charles Aldinger When U.S and Russian warships nearly collided in the Philippine Sea recently, the world received a stark reminder of the growing military tensions between superpowers. These tensions have been sparked in no small part by crumbling arms control...
by Bernd Debusmann Jr | 30 Jul 2018 | Europe, Fake News, Future of Democracy
By Bernd Debusmann Jr. Despite polls showing the contrary, to many of us who grew up in the West it may seem hard to believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin is popular among Russians. This is a man, after all, who has been accused of crushing dissent in his own...
by News Decoder | 11 Jul 2018 | Europe, Future of Democracy, Human Rights
By Julian Nundy Four years ago, the then nascent war in eastern Ukraine suffered its most spectacular tragedy. A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 flying to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam exploded over rebel-held areas of the Donbass mining region on July 17, 2014, killing...
by Bernd Debusmann Jr | 18 Aug 2017 | Discovery, Europe, Eyewitness, Future of Democracy
(Photographs by Bernd Debusmann Jr.) By Bernd Debusmann Jr. Landing in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev — or, as they prefer, Kyiv — I wasn’t really sure what to expect. Would it be the grim and gray capital of a country still struggling to shake off its...