News / MN Newsletter // February 14

February 14, 2019

Russia Ukraine Ukraine Deports Russia-Aligned Priest, Strips Citizenship, In Church Rift - RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty Halya Coynash: Ukrainian could face sentence for daubing paint on monument to Russian invaders of Crimea - Kyiv Post CBC: Canadian election observers arrive in Ukraine amid fears of Russian meddling - UNIAN Irish Times: Manafort lied to investigators on Russia, judge rules - Kyiv Post Ukraine demands reciprocal doctor visits for Hryb, Vyshinsky - Kyiv Post Ukraine Deports Russia-Aligned Priest, Strips Citizenship, In Church Rift - RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty KYIV -- Ukraine has taken the extraordinary step of deporting a senior cleric of the Moscow-aligned Orthodox Church and stripping him of his citizenship, marking a political escalation in the historic rift that has shaken the Eastern Orthodox world and further raised tensions between Kyiv and Moscow. Read More Halya Coynash: Ukrainian could face sentence for daubing paint on monument to Russian invaders of Crimea - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Russia's War Against Ukraine Halya Coynash: Ukrainian could face sentence for daubing paint on monument to Russian invaders of Crimea Read More CBC: Canadian election observers arrive in Ukraine amid fears of Russian meddling - UNIAN UNIAN "Election observation is one of most transparent and accountable ways to support democracy." Photo from UNIAN The first waves of Canadian election monitors have arrived in Ukraine, as fears rise over Russian meddling in the March 31 presidential ballot.The observer missions are crucial to preserving Ukraine's ability to conduct a democratically sound election in the face of Russian efforts designed to portray the country as poorly run and corrupt, CBC News reported. Read More Irish Times: Manafort lied to investigators on Russia, judge rules - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Irish Times: Manafort lied to investigators on Russia, judge rules Published Feb. Read More Ukraine demands reciprocal doctor visits for Hryb, Vyshinsky - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post The access of doctors to Editor-in-chief of RIA Novosti Ukraina Kirill Vyshinsky, accused in Ukraine of treason, and the Ukrainian Pavlo Hryb accused in Russia should be synchronous, the Verkhovna Rada’s Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova has said. Read More

Top News Father of snowboarder who died at Snowmass: 'He was just one of those good guys' - Aspen Times Thanks to Google Maps, your car won't get nabbed for number coding - AutoIndustriya.com ASIO meets with Facebook and Google over upcoming election - Daily Telegraph With Google & Facebook, this Silicon Valley suburb is US' richest neighbourhood - Livemint Coalition filibusters with longest question time in history – as it happened - The Guardian Father of snowboarder who died at Snowmass: 'He was just one of those good guys' - Aspen Times Aspen Times Tyler Hamm had big plans and his whole life in front of him. The 20-year-old Charlotte, North Carolina, native had spent the past two years cooking in Aspen during the winter and Alaska in the summer, and had four job offers on the table for next summer, his father, Tracy Hamm, said in a phone interview Wednesday. Read More Thanks to Google Maps, your car won't get nabbed for number coding - AutoIndustriya.com AutoIndustriya.com Google Philippines has just announced that they are making some major updates to the Google Maps, many of which can be very useful at avoiding hassles for motorists. Chief of these updates is a feature that allows Google Maps to provide route options if your car is adversely affected by the MMDA's UVVRP, a scheme more commonly known as number coding. Read More ASIO meets with Facebook and Google over upcoming election - Daily Telegraph Daily Telegraph ASIO meets with Facebook and Google over upcoming election  Daily TelegraphExclusive: Facebook and Google have been called to Canberra for urgent meetings with the nations top spy agency on how to deal with foreign interference and ... Read More With Google & Facebook, this Silicon Valley suburb is US' richest neighbourhood - Livemint Livemint Atherton, California, is America’s richest place for the third year in a row. Its residents made an average of $450,696 in 2017, a $7,293 increase from the prior year, according to the annual Bloomberg Richest Places index. Read More Coalition filibusters with longest question time in history – as it happened - The Guardian The Guardian 4.27pm EST16:27 Good morning This first week has been quite something, hasn’t it. February is shaping up to be quite the year. The scare campaign over the medical evacuation bill is in full flight, with Michael McCormack the latest government minister to prove he hasn’t read the bill, has read the bill and doesn’t understand it, or is wilfully lying about it. Read More

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