Ukraine
Opposition leader and former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko remains hospitalized in intensive care on Jan. 11, a day after riot police officers severely beat him when he tried to intervene as police
Jan. 12, 2014
Some 150 activists representing pro-European protest rallies all over Ukraine came to Kharkiv on Jan. 11 for the first forum of EuroMaidans in an attempt to unite efforts around the nation to unite in
Jan. 11, 2014
Editor’s Note: The following joint statement was released by opposition leaders Arseniy Yatsenyu,k Oleg Tiahnybok and Vitali Klitschko in condemnation of the Jan. 10 beating by police of ex-Interior
Jan. 11, 2014
Guilty verdicts in a criminal case denounced as a sham triggered a night of violent conflicts on Jan. 10 between Berkut riot police officers and demonstrators, injuring at least a dozen protesters.
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Jan. 11, 2014
Civic organizations and public movements have started to abandon the Maidan Civic Council, an organization formed in December by a coalition of nongovernmental organizations to support the anti-govern
Jan. 10, 2014
The Central
Election Commission (CEC) has registered Leonid Datsenko and Viktor
Pylypyshyn as MPs, the commission’s press service has reported.
Jan. 10, 2014
Commenting on the statement of Russian Christian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill that the EuroMaidan demonstrations are a threat to the spiritual unity of Ukrainians and Russians, the Patriarch of Ky
Jan. 8, 2014
Moscow – The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, has expressed concern about the situation in Ukraine.
Jan. 7, 2014
A Kharkiv Euromaidan activist, Oleksandr Chyzhov, was detained by the
militia on Saturday, Jan. 4, on immoral conduct charges. He is accused of
distributing pornographic materials through the Vkontakt
Jan. 5, 2014
Odesa, January 4 (Interfax-Ukraine) – A statue of Bolshevik leader Vladimir
Lenin that had stood in a village in Odesa region broke in two as someone
knocked it off its pedestal on Friday night, the r
Jan. 4, 2014
The Svoboda Party has reported that Andriy Illienko, a member of parliament in the party’s opposition faction has been attacked, along with Svoboda’s lawyer Sydir Kizin.
Jan. 3, 2014
MP of Regions Party Vadym Kolesnichenko believes that xenophobic moods
are expanding at Euromaidan and neo-Nazi ideas are being introduced,
especially in the context of the torch march marking the 103
Jan. 3, 2014
Some 200,000 Ukrainians danced and sang their way into the New Year during a mass rally on Kyiv’s Independence Square, marking a celebratory start to 2014.
Jan. 1, 2014
Unlike a half dozen Ukrainian officials whose houses have been picketed in the recent days by pro-European protesters, Rinat Akhmetov, the nation’s richest billionaire, wasn’t afraid to show up and t
Dec. 31, 2013
Ukrainians are divided into almost two equal camps in their attitude to
Kyiv Euromaidan: 50 percent of Ukrainians don’t support Euromaidan, while 45 percent
have the opposite position, according to th
Dec. 30, 2013
The interior ministry’s chief investigator on Dec. 27 linked
opposition lawmaker Vitali Klitschko, his younger brother, heavyweight champion
boxer Wladimir Klitschko, as well as several other members
Dec. 27, 2013