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Retired Colonel General Volodymyr Zamana, the former chief of General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces from February 2012 to February 2014, was arrested on Feb. 25 on a charge of high treason, accordin
Feb. 25, 2019
Music
Pop singer Maruv has won Ukraine’s nomination to represent the country in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. There’s just one problem: her Russian concerts put her candidacy at risk. With a provocat
Feb. 24, 2019
Editor’s Note: Election Watch is a regular update on the state of the presidential race in Ukraine. The country will elect its next president on March 31, 2019, with a possible runoff on April 21. The
Feb. 22, 2019
FC Dynamo Kyiv have managed to get to the UEFA Europa League round of 16 after a 1-0 win in the round of 32 leg 2 against Greece’s Olympiacos in Kyiv on February 21. Read more here.
Feb. 22, 2019
National Police of Ukraine Chief Serhiy Knyazev and Director of International Operations at Great Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) Ian Cruxton have signed a cooperation agreement in London. “We’v
Feb. 21, 2019
Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Ukrainian for Independence Square), served as the main stage for all the biggest protest movements in the history of independent Ukraine. It hosted a student-driven Revolution on
Feb. 20, 2019
A recent scandal at the Kyiv National University has spotlighted the pervasive issue of sexual harassment in Ukrainian universities and sparked a debate that academic institutions have to adopt new po
Feb. 19, 2019
Ukraine’s second-seeded tennis player Lesia Tsurenko has climbed one spot in the latest WTA ranking and has taken 23rd position for the first time in her career. Read more here.
Feb. 18, 2019
Matteo Patrone, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s regional managing director, has been on the job since Nov. 1 — time enough to visit the six countries of his responsibility: Bela
Feb. 15, 2019
Ukraine’s Dynamo Kyiv has tied the score with 2:2 draw with Greek Olympiacos after a Europa League round of 32’s first leg away game. The host team took the lead twice, but Dynamo leveled the score bo
Feb. 15, 2019
From Feb. 21 through Feb. 28, the 9th American Independence Film Festival, supported by the United States Embassy in Ukraine, will be held in Kyiv. In the course of one week, Ukrainian viewers will ge
Feb. 13, 2019
Detectives from the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine have prepared a draft notice of suspicion involving one episode of a case in which Ukraine’s ex-Ecology and Natural Resources Minister My
Feb. 10, 2019
The Islamic Revolution of 1979 brought seismic changes to Iran, not least for women. One area that has come under scrutiny is the way women dress and wear their hair – the old Shah, in the 1930s, bann
Feb. 8, 2019
The Central Election Commission of Ukraine (CEC) has refused to register deputy of Ukraine Nadiya Savchenko and former deputy of the Party of Regions living in Russia Volodymyr Oliynyk as presidential
Feb. 7, 2019
After winning the local show Ukraine’s Got Talent in 2009, Ukrainian sand animation artist Kseniya Simonova took her act across the ocean to try to win the hearts of the U.S. audience. And she did: Si
Feb. 5, 2019
A raft of European nations recognized Venezuela’s opposition leader as the country’s interim president Monday, piling western pressure on authoritarian incumbent Nicolás Maduro as the European Union c
Feb. 4, 2019