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Crime isn’t just a big business. It can also be a big employer. On Aug. 6, the Kyiv branch of the National Police broke up a large-scale fraudulent scheme to steal money from bank clients. The crimina
Aug. 8, 2020
United States Intelligence has accused Ukrainian lawmaker Andrii Derkach of acting in the interests of Russia and attempting to interfere in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Since 2019, Derkach ha
Aug. 8, 2020
The U.S. Department of Justice has accused Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky of fraud and money laundering and moved to seize his properties in the states of Kentucky and Texas. Kolomoisky, his busi
Aug. 7, 2020
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed Oleh Tatarov as deputy head of the Presidential Office on Aug. 5. As a police official in 2014, Tatarov tried to justify violence against protester
Aug. 6, 2020
If the Ukrainian music industry consisted solely of the songs played on local radio stations, it would be dominated by pop. Rock and electronic music would be rarities. And hip-hop would be nearly unh
Aug. 6, 2020
The island of Gallinara off the coast of Italy was once a refuge for popes and influential clergymen. But now it has been purchased by Oleksandr Boguslayev, the son of the former majority owner of Ukr
Aug. 4, 2020
Popular U.S. streaming platform Netflix will shoot its first movie in Kyiv, Ukraine’s Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko announced on July 31. Netflix’s action-comedy “The Last Mercenary” will star
Jul. 31, 2020
The Kyiv City Council has named a small street in the city’s Shevchenkivskyi district after Welsh journalist Gareth Jones. He was one of the first foreign correspondents to write about the Holodomor,
Jul. 31, 2020
Cinema Kino42 had been under the coronavirus lockdown longer than it had been in business. It opened in December 2019 in Kyiv, but in those first three months before the COVID‑19 outbreak, it turned i
Jul. 31, 2020
Leonid Kravchuk, Ukraine’s first president, took charge of Ukraine’s delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine on July 30. Kravchuk, 86, was appointed by the President’s Office to lead Ukr
Jul. 30, 2020
ODESA, Ukraine – Allrise Capital, a U.S. investment fund, on July 21 closed a landmark deal to buy Odesa’s Chornomorets soccer stadium. In theory, this could be one of the sexiest assets put up for sa
Jul. 30, 2020
The situation with water supply in Ukraine’s Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula is becoming more critical as the Russian occupation government is looking for new water sources. Before Russia’s annexati
Jul. 28, 2020
Since 2014, Ukrainian observers have agreed: The country is moving West, for good. Russia’s occupation of Crimea and Donbas and the aging Ukrainian pro-Russian electorate gave the impression that West
Jul. 24, 2020
The bus operator FlixBus launches two new international trips from Ukraine on the Kyiv-Krakow-Prague and Kyiv-Vilnius routes. The press service of the company said the Kyiv-Vilnius bus departs daily f
Jul. 23, 2020
Romania’s top football coach Mircea Lucescu has been officially introduced as the new manager of FC Dynamo Kyiv. The details of the contract have not been specified, according to the club’s official w
Jul. 23, 2020
Noel Israel Khokhar has been nominated as Pakistan’s ambassador to Ukraine, Ukraine House Pakistan, a nonprofit that works to improve relations between Ukraine and Pakistan, reported on July 21. The E
Jul. 22, 2020
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Ukrainian forces repelled a major Russian offensive in Kursk, destroying a battalion, 28 armored vehicles, and inflicting over 200 casualties on Russia.
Nov. 12