Hello, im ray suarez, for weeks there has been little you could say about the situation in ukraine that would stand up for more than 24 hours. Its been a moving target. Hard to predict and define. Think, in five months its moved from a tilt towards moscow in kiev to counterdemonstrations that pulled down the government of Viktor Yanukovych to a creeping russia, to the eruption of protests across Eastern Ukraine, to what we have today, a situation inching closer to allout fighting to russian alined irregular forces and ukranian military forces. As uptions and storming the buildings spread, the kiev government threatened retaliation and publicly acknowledged it lost before the fighting began. When the Ukrainian Government fought back, russia, a foreign country, warned ukraine about trying to reoccupy its open government buildings on its own soil. The tempo of fighting is increasing and people continue to die. Reporter prorussian forces brought down two military helicopters in slovyansk o
Suarez, for weeks there has been little you could say about the situation in ukraine that would stand up for more than 24 hours. Its been a moving target. Hard to predict and define. Think, in five months its moved from a tilt towards moscow in kiev to counterdemonstrations that pulled down the government of Viktor Yanukovych to a creeping russia, to the eruption of protests across Eastern Ukraine, to what we have today, a situation inching closer to allout fighting to russian alined irregular forces and ukranian military forces. As uptions and storming the buildings spread, the kiev government threatened retaliation and publicly acknowledged it lost before the fighting began. When the Ukrainian Government fought back, russia, a foreign country, warned ukraine about trying to reoccupy its open government buildings on its own soil. The tempo of fighting is increasing and people continue to die. Reporter prorussian forces brought down two military helicopters in slovyansk one using a sop
Suarez, for weeks there has been little you could say about the situation in ukraine that would stand up for more than 24 hours. Its been a moving target. Hard to predict and define. Think, in five months its moved from a tilt towards moscow in kiev to counterdemonstrations that pulled down the government of Viktor Yanukovych to a creeping russia, to the eruption of protests across Eastern Ukraine, to what we have today, a situation inching closer to allout fighting to russian alined irregular forces and ukranian military forces. As uptions and storming the buildings spread, the kiev government threatened retaliation and publicly acknowledged it lost before the fighting began. When the Ukrainian Government fought back, russia, a foreign country, warned ukraine about trying to reoccupy its open government buildings on its own soil. The tempo of fighting is increasing and people continue to die. Reporter prorussian forces brought down two military helicopters in slovyansk one using a sop
Steve pointed demonstration determined they wanted to move the operation of the main system out of the federal government and privatize it so what we announced in march was simply the completion of what started in 1998 which was to complete that privatization. So day ukrainian a this hourlong program is next on booktv. Good morning. I am joanne myers director of Public Affairs programs and on behalf of the Carnegie Council i would like to welcome our members guests and cspan booktv to this Public Affairs program. Our guest today is serhil plok plokhy. He is professor of ukraine history and director of the Ukrainian Research institute at harvard university. His book the last empire the final days of the soviet union will as he writes will not only lift the curtain of time on the dramatic events leading up to the lowering of the soviet flag and the collapse of the soviet union but it will also provide a muchneeded context for what is happening in the ukraine today. The longstanding narra
Ukraine and its western allies denounced to russian claims that kia is planning to explode. A so called a dirty bomb on its own territory. President lansky says its moscow that may want to use a radioactive weapon. And growing evidence that russia is using a rainy and made a drones in its bombardment of ukraine to run, denies supplying the weapons and shooting them down is proven, is proving a challenge for Ukrainian Forces. Plus the horn of africa suffers its worse to drought in for decades. Parts of northern kenya have not seen any rain in years. We look at how communities are coping. Ah i monica jones. Good to have you with us. Britains a former finance minister has won the race to become its 3rd Prime Minister. This year, richie sooner could gain to the support of more than half of m. P. s from the ruling conservative party, his rival penny more donned, withdrew, and pledged to support the new government. Soon access that stabilizing the economy will be his 1st priority. D, w, corr