Ukraine‘s Kalush Orchestra were named winners of the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest Saturday, thanks to their song “Stefania.” Heading into Saturday’s Eurovision finals in Turin, Italy, the Ukrainian folk-rap group were heavily favored to stand victorious among the 25 countries still in competition. Ukraine previously won the annual song contest …
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LVIV, Ukraine — Before the war there were so many ways to travel in this country. There were sleeper trains that crawled across the country in the dead of night, rocking passengers in bunks before sidling up to stations in new cities as dawn broke. There were express trains that …
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UPDATE (4/7): McDonald’s plans to permanently leave Russia after more than 30 years and has started to sell its restaurants. The company said that “continued ownership of the business in Russia is no longer tenable, nor is it consistent with McDonald’s values” due to the “humanitarian crisis” caused by the …
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MOSCOW — In that moment, it hit me just how quickly things had gone wrong. Karen Shainyan, my most optimistic friend, whose eyes always reflected confidence and courage, had stayed optimistic on the darkest days—when members of the Chechen LGBT community were rounded up and tortured, when the authorities designated …
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WASHINGTON — In his 2022 State of the Union speech, President Joe Biden announced new restrictions on Russian airplanes flying in American airspace and vowed to increase the pressure on Russian leader Vladimir Putin to stop the bloody invasion of Ukraine. Biden devoted the opening portion of his remarks — …
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Republican politicians and conservative media pundits have been a little confused about how to respond to Russia‘s invasion of Ukraine. The GOP, once known for its hawkishness toward Russia, softened its stance toward the murderous authoritarian as Donald Trump praised him incessantly throughout his time in office. He continued to …
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After weeks of bad-faith complaints from the right about the impeachment inquiry‘s lack of “due process,” the House Judiciary Committee offered President Trump the opportunity to have lawyers present when it holds its first hearing on Wednesday. President Trump isn’t interested. On Sunday night, the White House legal team informed …
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On Thursday, yielding to Trump once again, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, launched a probe into the baseless claims alleging Joe Biden was involved with corruption in Ukraine. On Friday, the presidential candidate spoke with CNN’s Don Lemon and expressed anger and disappointment in his …
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WASHINGTON —The scandal-ridden campaign led by Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani to convince the Ukrainian government to investigate Joe Biden, a scheme that triggered a full-blown impeachment investigation of the president, just took its strangest twist yet. And it’s about to make Trump and Giuliani’s lives even more miserable. Two businessmen …
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