Diego Diaz | Asst. News Director With the Russo-Ukrainian war continuing to ravage Eastern Ukraine, FIU’s Office of Global Initiatives hosted a panel platforming student voices from within Ukraine. The May 15 Tuesday Times Roundtable featured a host of students from the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, in western Ukraine. Students, whose full names […]
Samuel Larreal / Contributing Writer FIU’s journalism department held an expert panel discussion on March 16 to analyze the Russian government’s crackdown on journalists amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The panel discussed the Kremlin’s censorship efforts against free media as well as possible sociopolitical implications of the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine. The discussion at […]
By Fernando Fernández / Staff Writer After months of endless speculation, Russian President Vladimir Putin has finally done it. He has launched his long-awaited invasion of Ukraine and, in the process, changed everything. Gone are the days when the global liberal democratic world order was unquestioned. This latest incursion by Vladimir Putin’s Russia represents not […]
Michael McEwen and Diego Diaz / PantherNOW Staff In the early hours of Thursday morning, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a “special military operation” targeting the eastern portion of neighboring Ukraine, drawing an end to a tense period of anticipation in which 190,000 Russian troops massed at the border between the two countries. Artillery strikes […]
Sergey Podlesnykh/Staff Writer For most of my Russian friends, I am “Sergey from America”. For most of my American ones, I am “Sergey, the Russian”. Eleven years of assimilation has alienated me from Russia, but still hasn’t brought me closer to America. I got stuck in a limbo, an “inbetweener” for life. In 2009, my […]
Christian Gonzalez/ Staff Writer The United States and Russia have proved utterly incapable of getting along ever since the defeat of Hitler’s Germany. Tensions between the two arose almost immediately following World War II, when disagreements about distribution of Marshall Plan aid to Eastern Bloc countries turned sour. By 1950, America and the Soviet […]
Jasmine Casimir // Assistant Sports Director Student-athletes are known to have the busiest schedules out of the whole student body, especially when they’re in season. They have classes, practices, meetings, games —home and away— and community work. With these components taking up most of their time, finding time to see their families and loved ones […]
