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It’s official: Kyiv will host the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. The Ukrainian Organization Committee picked Kyiv over Odesa and Dnipro (formerly Dnipropetrovsk) to host the contest. The decision came on […]
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on August 11 put Ukraine’s armed forces on high alert and “full combat readiness” near Russian-occupied Crimea and the war zone in the Donbas. The reaction […]
Google on July 28 changed the names of towns, villages and districts in Russian-occupied Crimea on its Google Maps mapping service in accordance with Ukraine’s decommunization law. But on July […]
Journalist Pavel Sheremet was killed in a car explosion in Kyiv on the morning of July 20, reported Ukrainska Pravda. Sheremet worked in Ukrainska Pravda, a popular online news outlet. […]
Although cracks in the Western alliance emerged publicly before the July 8-9 Nato Summit, the 28 allies in the end issued a unanimous, unequivocal and strongly-worded condemnation for Russia to […]
The Lithuanian parliament has approved legal amendments that will make it easier for Lithuanian employers to hire foreign staff and obtain “startup visas” for non-European Union citizens. The amended law […]
Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland’s annual human rights report, given on World Refugee Day on June 20, upset Ukraine’s delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly ofthe Council of Europe […]
Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau and Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office detained 10 former officials suspected of embezzlement of three billion hryvnia (1 euro = 28.16 hryvnia) through fraudulent gas sales. On [&hellip ...
Ukraine’s SBU security service has thwarted at least 15 planned terrorist attacks targeting the upcoming UEFA Euro 2016 European soccer championship in France, the service’s head, Vasyl Hrytsak, said on […]
After almost two years of captivity in Russia, Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko, 35, is finally back at home. After a Ukrainian government plane landed at Boryspil airport in the […]
