Feb 09 Watch 3:22 Obama leaves open the option of arming Ukraine if diplomacy and sanctions fail By PBS News Hour German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with President Obama to discuss how to defuse fighting on the Ukrainian border. While Merkel has warned that adding more weapons to the equation would simply escalate the war, Obama said arming Ukrainian forces will… Continue watching
Jan 08 Lithuanian activists fight ‘Kremlin propaganda’ with stickers of beetles By Ruth Tam In Lithuania, consumers are fighting Russian propaganda with a little of their own --in sticker form. Continue reading
Dec 30 Watch 3:37 News Wrap: Protests erupt in Moscow over Navalny conviction By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Tuesday, protests against Russian President Vladimir Putin erupted in Moscow after leading activist Alexei Navalny was convicted of fraud. Also, the UN Security Council voted against a resolution offered by Palestinians to end Israeli control in… Continue watching
Dec 18 Watch 2:54 News Wrap: Putin vows West won’t ‘defang’ Russia By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed confidence that his nation’s economy and currency would recover in the next two years and vowed that the West would never “defang” Russia. Also, Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint… Continue watching
Dec 16 Watch 6:29 Does economic turbulence hurt Putin’s power? – Part 2 By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Dec 16 Watch 2:12 Sanctions, cheap oil take toll on Russia’s struggling currency – Part 1 By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Dec 04 Watch 6:01 How the Kremlin uses TV to shape Russian political ‘reality’ By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Nov 16 Obama criticizes Putin for not adhering to cease-fire By Julie Pace, Associated Press President Barack Obama on Sunday bluntly accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of not living up to a cease-fire agreement in Ukraine, but offered no new plans for how the West might change his calculus. Continue reading
Nov 15 Watch Is Putin intentionally provoking the West? By PBS News Hour Following a growing list of aggressive moves made by Russia against the West, what is Putin's plan? Kimberly Marten, a Russian scholar and professor at Barnard College and Columbia University joins Hari Sreenivasan to provide insight into what may be… Continue watching
Nov 11 Obama, Putin circle each other warily in China By Josh Lederman, Associated Press BEIJING -- On the surface, President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin were all niceties -- a pat on the back here, a pleasantry there. But away from the cameras, the two leaders circled each other warily at a… Continue reading