Ukraine
Despite the announcement of a new cease-fire around Donetsk, there have been reports of continued fighting around the airport and the nearby village of Pisky. Here, a mix of Ukrainian government force
Dec. 3, 2014
The Verkhovna Rada has terminated the powers of nine members f parliament appointed to the Cabinet of Ministers.
Dec. 2, 2014
Ukraine’s parliament approved the new Cabinet of Ministers at the Dec. 2 evening session. For the first time in history, three portfolios were given to the nationals of Georgia, Lithuania and the U.S.
Dec. 2, 2014
KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — The Ukrainian military has banned journalists from traveling to the front lines in eastern Ukraine unless they travel in special groups escorted by soldiers, the press service
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Dec. 2, 2014
Lack of public service professionals on the Ukraine labor market has pushed the government to look abroad for qualified applicants who can take positions.
Nov. 29, 2014
Ukraine will cancel its non-aligned status and resume integration with NATO as part of measures to reform its national security and defense system, as is evident from a draft Ukrainian parliamentary c
Nov. 21, 2014
Defense lawyer of Ukrainian pilots Nadia Savchenko, Mark Feygin, said the pilot’s lawyers will turn to the International Committee of the Red Cross to seek Savchenko’s official designation as a prison
Nov. 7, 2014
DEBALTSEVE, Ukraine — Meet one of Ukraine’s soldiers serving at the front. He’s Red Mullet or, in Ukrainian, Barabulka. This is the name he uses now, during his service in the Donetsk Oblast city of D
Nov. 6, 2014
Militants are is firing at the Donetsk airport using cannons, three Ukrainian troops were killed in the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) zone on Thursday, Nov. 6 and another four were wounded, ATO spoke
Nov. 6, 2014
Nine Ukrainian servicemen have been injured in the area of the anti-terrorist operation in the east of Ukraine in the past 24 hours, Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) has reported
Nov. 6, 2014
The question on many minds after the election is whether the winners of the Oct. 26 election will be able to work together and advance a reform agenda to overhaul Ukraine’s fragile democracy and econo
Oct. 30, 2014
MOSCOW – The leaders and public figures representing the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR, respectively) have said they will not give Ukraine back the parts of the c
Oct. 30, 2014
With many pro-European politicians winning seats in parliament, some 64 former lawmakers who supported so callled “dictator laws” during the waning days of deposed president Viktor Yanukovych, are mak
Oct. 29, 2014
The Ukrainian military positions near the village of Talakivka not far from Mariupol came under artillery and Grad rocket fire on Wednesday, according the Mariupol authorities.
Oct. 29, 2014
Russian senators stand ready to cooperate with the new Ukrainian parliament, Vladimir Dzhabarov, acting chairman of the Federation Council’s International Affairs Committee and chairman of the Tempora
Oct. 28, 2014
The Bloc of Petro
Poroshenko, Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s People’s Front, party of Lviv mayor Andriy
Sadovy Samopomich, Opposition Bloc, Oleh Lyashko’s Radical Party, nationalists Svoboda and Yulia
Tymoshenko
Oct. 26, 2014