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Ukraine, Russia clash over upcoming Duma elections

September 13, 2016 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

As elections to Russian parliament, Duma, approach, Ukraine says it will not allow Russian polling stations on its territory –

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Kyiv wins right to host Eurovision

September 9, 2016 The Kyiv Post Eurovision, Ukraine

It’s official: Kyiv will host the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. The Ukrainian Organization Committee picked Kyiv over Odesa and Dnipro

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Putin goes on verbal attack against Ukraine, raising fears of war escalation

August 12, 2016 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on August 11 put Ukraine’s armed forces on high alert and “full combat readiness” near Russian-occupied

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Google bows to Russian pressure, reverses changes to names of Crimean towns

July 30, 2016 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

Google on July 28 changed the names of towns, villages and districts in Russian-occupied Crimea on its Google Maps mapping

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Ukrainian-Belarusian journalist Pavel Sheremet killed in Kyiv

July 20, 2016July 20, 2016 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

Journalist Pavel Sheremet was killed in a car explosion in Kyiv on the morning of July 20, reported Ukrainska Pravda.

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Nato stands in ‘solidarity’ with Ukraine, condemns Russia’s war

July 11, 2016 The Kyiv Post Nato, Russia, Ukraine

Although cracks in the Western alliance emerged publicly before the July 8-9 Nato Summit, the 28 allies in the end

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Lithuania moves to tempt foreign IT specialists from non-EU countries

July 7, 2016 The Kyiv Post Lithuania

The Lithuanian parliament has approved legal amendments that will make it easier for Lithuanian employers to hire foreign staff and

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Ukrainian lawmakers fume over omission of Ukraine from human rights report

June 22, 2016 The Kyiv Post Ukraine

Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland’s annual human rights report, given on World Refugee Day on June 20, upset

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Ukraine: Investigators arrest 10 suspects in major gas fraud

June 21, 2016June 21, 2016 The Kyiv Post energy, Ukraine

Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau and Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office detained 10 former officials suspected of embezzlement of three billion hryvnia

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