Ukraine
For the residents of the capital a lot more was at stake than just the presidency on May 25. Kyiv elected a mayor and the city legislature for the first time since 2008.
May. 25, 2014
A group of hackers has been arrested in Kyiv with specialized equipment intended to rig the results of the Ukraine’s presidential election, according to Victor Yagun, deputy head of the Security Servi
May. 25, 2014
TOREZ/DONETSK, Ukraine — Just one day before Ukraine holds a crucial presidential election, confusion and a looming specter of violence are dissuading voters from going to the polls in the country’s r
May. 24, 2014
The situation in Ukraine’s struggling Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts, which for more than two months have had parts of their territory controlled by groups of Russia-backed armed separatists is likely t
May. 24, 2014
TOREZ, Ukraine — Paramilitaries from a group organized by presidential candidate Oleh Lyashko stormed a local government building in a sleepy eastern Ukrainian mining city and killed a pro-Russian sep
May. 23, 2014
Ukrainian government will allocate Hr 100 million to buy 22 BTR-3E armored personnel carriers (APCs) for the Armed Forces and the National Guard, Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.
May. 23, 2014
Outnumbered six-to-one, at least one Ukrainian
Donbas Volunteer Battalion member was killed and 20 were wounded in an ambush
by 150-200 pro-Russian separatists in the village of Karlivka, 35 kilometer
May. 23, 2014
Two more Ukrainian military servicemen, who were injured near Volnovakha (Donetsk region) on May 22, died in the early hours of Friday morning, said Kostiantyn Zinkevych, a military serviceman from th
May. 23, 2014
Editor’s Note: On May 11, the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk declared their independence from Ukraine after holding dubious separatist referendums on the same day. Since then, the Ukrainian
May. 22, 2014
The margin between the leaders of the Ukrainian presidential race,
Petro Poroshenko and Yulia Tymoshenko, was over 30 percent six days before the
election, according to the findings of a poll conducte
May. 22, 2014
The Donbas Special Battalion has taken control of parts of Ukraine’s Donetsk region, the regional administration said on May 21.
May. 21, 2014
Andrea Chalupa is a founder of DigitalMaidan, an online movement that made the
Ukrainian protests the #1 trending topic on Twitter worldwide, She is
also a journalist and the author of Orwell and The
May. 21, 2014
Ukraine’s richest man Rinat Akhmetov wants his workers in separatist-held Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts to hold a strike daily from 12 p.m. until 3 p.m. until the unrest in the region eases. Time will t
May. 20, 2014
British journalist Graham Phillips, who cooperates with Russia Today,
has been held in Ukraine, the television channel said on its website on
Tuesday.
May. 20, 2014
An unknown number of masked gunmen on May 20 stormed nearly a dozen district election commissions in eastern Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and demanded at gunpoint that officials turn over ballots and o
May. 20, 2014
Billionaire Rinat Akhmetov, after treading cautiously between Kremlin-backed separatists and the government in Kyiv that came to power when the EuroMaidan Revolution overthrew his ally ex-President Vi
May. 20, 2014