Ukraine’s October local elections highlight battle under way to fill eastern Ukraine power vacuum
The competition is on for the October 25 local elections in the remaining eastern Ukraine power hubs of Dnipropetrovsk and
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Moscow MH17 presentation seen as sloppy pre-emptive measure against Dutch report
A Russian arms manufacturer treated journalists to a Kafkaesque press conference ahead of the release of the Dutch Safety Board’s
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Poll: Ukrainians unhappy about corruption, incomplete reforms
Ukrainians are unhappy with their current government. In a recent poll conducted in Ukraine, only 7 percent of the respondents
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Dutch report on MH17 crash refutes Russian version
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine by a Russian-made Buk 9M38M1 anti-aircraft missile on July 17
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Dutch probe to release MH17 crash report on October 13
An investigative panel into the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine is due to make its report Tuesday,
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Bulgarian President: Moscow has put the Balkans at the centre of its geopolitical interests
The Balkans is where Europe must show that it has learned the lessons of the Ukrainian crisis, Bulgarian President Rossen
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Bulgarian Parliament rejects opposition socialist bid to backtrack on sanctions against Russia
After a vituperative debate, Bulgaria’s National Assembly voted on October 7 to reject a proposal by the opposition Bulgarian Socialist
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CPJ, OSCE blast Ukraine on foreign journalist entry ban
Two international rights organizations have criticized Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko for signing a decree that banned 41 foreign journalists and
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Ukraine’s ban of foreign journalists ignites international ire
Prominent foreign journalists briefly found themselves in the company of Kremlin cheerleader and Chechen strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov in Ukraine’s
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