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SHCHASTIA, Ukraine – The Aidar Battalion, a volunteer group of fighters based in the Luhansk Oblast city of Shchastia, brings together men with different biographies, political views and backgrounds.
Dec. 15, 2014
Ukraine’s newly appointed Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicius, 38, clearly signaled his conservative direction during a Dec. 13 interview with the Kyiv Post. “The role of the state in the economy sh
Dec. 15, 2014
Global Energy giant Chevron terminated its contract with Ukraine to extract shale gas in western Ukraine after trying for more than a year to get the government to simplify taxation for this type of
Dec. 15, 2014
LYSYCHANSK, Ukraine – Since Ukraine’s government decided to stop all budget payments to areas controlled by Kremlin-backed insurgents last month, a steady stream of babushkas have been trickling out o
Dec. 11, 2014
Ukraine’s new parliament has the highest number of female lawmakers in history. There are 50 of them, or 12 percent of the 421 lawmakers. They are also more educated, eloquent and elegant than ever be
Dec. 11, 2014
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s ambitious reform program to attack corruption and stifling Soviet-era bureaucracy won quick approval in parliament on Dec. 11, with 269 members of parliament — meani
Dec. 11, 2014
A new Kickstarter project aims to fight the Russian president with mockery. The project called “VATNIK: The Putin Voodoo Magnet” aims to raise $5,000 to produce voodoo dolls with Vladimir Putin’s face
Dec. 11, 2014
The video of the first brawl in the newly-elected Verkhovna Rada became a hit, collecting 500,000 views overnight.
Dec. 5, 2014
Even though a deadly fighting erupted in Grozny, the capital of Russia’s restive Chechen Republic, overnight in Dec. 4, Russian President Vladimir Putin focus his annual speech to parliament on Ukrain
Dec. 4, 2014
Despite the presence among their ranks of a handful of former journalists, Ukraine’s parliament pressed ahead with the creation of a Ministry of Information, which many consider to be an ill-conceived
Dec. 4, 2014
In one week at the end of October Vadym Troyan went from being the deputy commander of a right-wing volunteer battalion fighting in Ukraine’s east to chief of police for the Kyiv Oblast.
Dec. 3, 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
of
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
President Petro Poroshenko asked the new parliament to amend legislation to allow foreigners to take top jobs in the nation, including head of the Anti-Corruption Bureau.
Nov. 27, 2014
Ukraine’s eighth parliament started work on Nov. 27. A total of 419 new lawmakers were sworn in, including former pilot Nadiya Savchenko, who remains imprisoned in Russia on what her supporters say ar
Nov. 27, 2014
SHCHASTIA, Ukraine – The Aidar Battalion, a volunteer group of fighters based in the Luhansk Oblast city of Shchastia, brings together men with different biographies, political views and backgrounds.
Dec. 15, 2014
Ukraine’s newly appointed Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicius, 38, clearly signaled his conservative direction during a Dec. 13 interview with the Kyiv Post. “The role of the state in the economy sh
Dec. 15, 2014
Global Energy giant Chevron terminated its contract with Ukraine to extract shale gas in western Ukraine after trying for more than a year to get the government to simplify taxation for this type of
Dec. 15, 2014
LYSYCHANSK, Ukraine – Since Ukraine’s government decided to stop all budget payments to areas controlled by Kremlin-backed insurgents last month, a steady stream of babushkas have been trickling out o
Dec. 11, 2014
Ukraine’s new parliament has the highest number of female lawmakers in history. There are 50 of them, or 12 percent of the 421 lawmakers. They are also more educated, eloquent and elegant than ever be
Dec. 11, 2014
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s ambitious reform program to attack corruption and stifling Soviet-era bureaucracy won quick approval in parliament on Dec. 11, with 269 members of parliament — meani
Dec. 11, 2014
A new Kickstarter project aims to fight the Russian president with mockery. The project called “VATNIK: The Putin Voodoo Magnet” aims to raise $5,000 to produce voodoo dolls with Vladimir Putin’s face
Dec. 11, 2014
The video of the first brawl in the newly-elected Verkhovna Rada became a hit, collecting 500,000 views overnight.
Dec. 5, 2014
Even though a deadly fighting erupted in Grozny, the capital of Russia’s restive Chechen Republic, overnight in Dec. 4, Russian President Vladimir Putin focus his annual speech to parliament on Ukrain
Dec. 4, 2014
Despite the presence among their ranks of a handful of former journalists, Ukraine’s parliament pressed ahead with the creation of a Ministry of Information, which many consider to be an ill-conceived
Dec. 4, 2014
In one week at the end of October Vadym Troyan went from being the deputy commander of a right-wing volunteer battalion fighting in Ukraine’s east to chief of police for the Kyiv Oblast.
Dec. 3, 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
of
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
President Petro Poroshenko asked the new parliament to amend legislation to allow foreigners to take top jobs in the nation, including head of the Anti-Corruption Bureau.
Nov. 27, 2014
Ukraine’s eighth parliament started work on Nov. 27. A total of 419 new lawmakers were sworn in, including former pilot Nadiya Savchenko, who remains imprisoned in Russia on what her supporters say ar
Nov. 27, 2014