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Suddenly, a wave of fear rolls over as I follow several border guard officers down the sandy steps into a freshly dug-out blindage in Girsk. It was made to shelter […]
A handful of pro-Russian separatists in the barricaded Donetsk Oblast government administration declared the creation of the Donetsk People’s Re ...
Parliament voted to free ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko from prison by decriminalizing the article in the criminal procedural code under which she ...
President Viktor Yanukovych agreed to look into the cases of 10 protesters who were arrested and still in custody after clashes with police during ant ...
Five days after demonstrations started all over Ukraine, prompted by the government’s rejection of a political and free trade deal with the European Union, the nation’s president came out with […]
Ukraine’s European partners issued multiple, unambiguous warnings this week: If Ukraine wants to sign an Association Agreement in November for closer political and trade ties with the European Union, it […]
Just hours before Ukraine signed a $10 billion deal with Royal Dutch Shell on Jan. 24 to extract shale gas in eastern Ukraine, the nation was hit with a $7 […]
Amid rising speculation that she is in ill health and is not being allowed to properly consult with her lawyers, imprisoned former Ukrainian Yulia Tymoshenko learned on January 18 2013 […]
Ukraine is making a lot of progress in its attempt to diversify gas supplies to avoid paying extortionate prices to Russia’s Gazprom, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said on Jan. 18. […]
Naked women and broken fences. Several brawls and plenty of insults. Watching the first day of the new parliament is almost like watching a reality show, except for the grim […]
