Ukraine
Voters in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Crimea who vote in the March 16 referendum have two choices – join Russia immediately or declare independence and then join Russia.
So the choices are “yes, now” o
Mar. 7, 2014
The leader of the Right Sector movement, Dmytro Yarosh, is planning to run for president of Ukraine, the chairman of the Kyiv branch of the Right Sector movement, Andriy Tarasenko, has said.
Mar. 7, 2014
Since Feb. 28, the European Union, Austria, Switzerland and Lichtenstein have frozen the assets of 33 former senior government officials, including fugitive ex-President Viktor Yanukovych.
Mar. 7, 2014
Soon after the Russian troops started invading Crimea, an entirely different invasion started in eastern and southern Ukraine. Dozens of Russian civilians traveled to those regions to stir up separati
Mar. 7, 2014
Verkhovna Rada Chairman and acting President Oleksandr Turchynov
said that he stoped the Crimean Supreme Council’s decision to hold a
referendum on Crimea’s inclusion in Russia.
Mar. 6, 2014
DONETSK, Ukraine — It was a safe house turned into a press center where Donetsk’s self-proclaimed governor gathered international journalists to say a word about his separatist aims for the nation’s m
Mar. 6, 2014
The “self-proclaimed governor” of Donetsk region Pavel Gubarev has
been detained in Donetsk, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has
reported.
Mar. 6, 2014
Armed men have seized the Simferopol Radio and Television
Transmitting Station, turning off Channel 5 and 1+1 and turning on
Rossiya 24, the Concern for Radio Broadcasting, Radio Communications and
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Mar. 6, 2014
A total of 100 people have died as a result of clashes in the center of
the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, since November 30, 2013, the Health
Ministry said on its Web site on Thursday.
Mar. 6, 2014
Kharkiv – A rally in support of Russia’s policies was staged on Freedom Square in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Wednesday, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent has said.
Mar. 6, 2014
A leaked conversation between Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet and European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton relays explosive suspicions that the same snipers are responsible for the Fe
Mar. 5, 2014
The Soviet Kremlin was skilled at dishonesty – from Vladimir Lenin’s “a lie told often enough becomes the truth” to Josef Stalin’s denial of Ukraine’s forced famine that killed millions
Mar. 5, 2014
The possible deployment of U.S. missile defense components on Ukrainian territory in exchange for U.S. financial support to Kyiv is a subject of negotiations, Ukrainian Ambassador in Minsk Mykhailo Ye
Mar. 5, 2014
BELBEK, Crimea — In the early morning hours of March 4, a group of unarmed Ukrainian soldiers marched from their barracks on the territory off Belbek military airfield near Sevastopol to demand that t
Mar. 4, 2014
Five foreign footballers are leaving FC Chornomorets because of the complicated socio-political situation in Ukraine and Odesa, and because of the absence of specific answers from the Football Federat
Mar. 4, 2014
Ukrainian
frigate Hetman Sahaidachny is expected to pass through the Bosporus Strait this
evening en route to its home base in Sevastopol, said Hryhoriy Boiko, Ukraine’s
consul in Istanbul cited by TV
Mar. 4, 2014