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Ukrainian officials said they seized 154 of his assets, including houses, apartments, and land.

Ukrainian authorities said on Thursday they seized assets belonging to Viktor Medvedchuk, a Ukrainian politician and Kremlin ally who was arrested earlier this week.

Ukrainian authorities said Thursday that they had seized 154 assets belonging to Medvedchuk, including 23 houses, 32 apartments, 30 plots of land, 26 cars, and one yacht, The Washington Post reported. »

John Hinckley Jr., who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981, is now playing sold-out concerts.

WABC reports Hinckley is scheduled to perform July 8 at the Market Hotel in Brooklyn.

Tickets were being sold for $20; the show is now sold out, according to the venue website. »

A strategy of institutional realpolitik would also recognize that for all their coordination, China and Russia are very different types of revisionists.

That, not lofty plans to change China and Russia or a wholesale abandonment of institutions, should help keep the revisionists in check.

These policymakers believed that membership in liberal institutions would make China and Russia more liberal themselves and thus less inclined to buck the existing international order. »

(CNN) The Republican National Committee voted unanimously on Thursday to withdraw from its participation in the Commission on Presidential Debates, the organization that has long governed general-election presidential debates.

The commission was formed in 1987 as a nonprofit sponsored by both the Republican and Democratic Parties and has sponsored debates in every presidential election since 1988.

Thursday's vote comes after months of signals from the RNC that it sought a break from the commission. »