by News Decoder | 9 Jun 2016 | Europe, Ukraine
Russia has released pilot Nadiya Savchenko, Ukraine’s “Joan of Arc,” from prison. Does Vladimir Putin want the EU to drop sanctions? Nadiya Savchenko sings Ukraine’s national anthem in parliament, 31 May 2016. (EPA/Sergey Dolzhenko) Russia released...
by Jim Wolf | 31 May 2016 | Americas, Asia, China, United States
Four decades after the end of a failed U.S. war in Vietnam, President Obama has halted an arms embargo that was one of the conflict’s last remnants. Forty-one years after the end of a failed U.S. war in Vietnam, President Barack Obama has halted an arms embargo...
by Alexey Shabaldin | 30 May 2016 | Europe, Student Posts, Ukraine
Vladimir Putin is a product of Russian society and power-hungry friends. But the West has helped make him what he is by its treatment of Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, with his predecessor and former mentor, Boris Yeltsin, at the Kremlin, Moscow, 7...
by Melinda Haring | 25 May 2016 | Europe, Ukraine
The conflict in Ukraine has propelled U.S.-Russian relations to their lowest point since the Cold War and soured Russia’s ties with Europe. Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko arrives in Ukraine after being released by Russia, 25 May 2016. (EPA/Sergey Dolzhenko) This is...
by News Decoder | 9 May 2016 | Europe, Islam, Paris attacks, School Year Abroad, Student Posts, Terrorism
By Ally Oh We’re always told to look for the good — the silver lining, the upside, the half-full glass — but it’s not always that easy or simple. On a recent weekend, listening to a heartbroken Turkish girl cry and yell at everyone in the bathroom to get...