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My father, the diplomat George F. Kennan, disliked the telephone. So when he called me in March 1967, I knew it was something important. At the time, I was 36 years old and living in California—recent
Apr. 30, 2018
DROHOBYCH, Ukraine — This town wasn’t always Ukrainian. But with 76,000 people, 56 kilometers from the Polish border and 516 kilometers from Kyiv, Drohobych boasts an incredibly vibrant and diverse hi
Apr. 27, 2018
Russia-backed separatists in Donetsk region shot at residential quarters in Zaitsevo. According to the local police department’s press service, the militants damaged nine houses in this area. ‘The att
Apr. 26, 2018
Ukraine is not a safe country for refugees, as Ukrainian state bodies are increasingly refusing to provide protection for such citizens, human rights activists say. “In the spring of 2018, just like e
Apr. 26, 2018
As Russia’s war in Donbas enters its fifth year, it is taking soldiers’ lives not just at the front, but when they return home, exhausted and traumatized by battle. Since 2014, at least 1,000 Ukrainia
Apr. 24, 2018
Dzmitry Halko, a Belarusian-Ukrainian journalist, was arrested by Belarusian authorities when crossing the border into Belarus from the Ukrainian city of Lviv and faces jail in Belarus, his Ukrainian
Apr. 24, 2018
Ukraine’s Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said he will stand in the next parliamentary election, planned for the fall 2019. Making the announcement in a Twitter post on April 19, Groysman refuel
Apr. 20, 2018
Fugitive lawmaker Oleksandr Onyshchenko late on April 18 published what he claimed to be a recording implicating President Petro Poroshenko and ex-President Viktor Yanukovych’s Ecology Minister Mykola
Apr. 20, 2018
Editor’s note: This story used to mistakenly refer to GlobalFirepower.com as a “defense think tank.” It was brought to our attention by Bellingcat, who looked into the website after Ukraine’s Presiden
Apr. 18, 2018
Ukraine’s Armed Forces went one rank higher on the list of the world’s strongest armies composed by Global Firepower company. Currently, the Ukrainian Army is 29th in this ranking, among the 136 count
Apr. 17, 2018
Relations between Ukraine and Poland are developing successfully, in particular, in the economic sector. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to Ukraine Jan Pieklo sa
Apr. 17, 2018
The #Metoo movement and the fight for equal rights for women all over the world doesn’t seem to impress Olga Freymut, a top TV presenter at Ukraine’s Novyi Kanal TV channel. While women all over the w
Apr. 16, 2018
It started as a typical road rage incident. On New Year’s Eve 2016, People’s Front lawmaker Serhiy Pashinsky was driving home with his wife, when they nearly collided with a car parked in the middle o
Apr. 13, 2018
A new report by Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Action Center has revealed that 11 powerful individuals own a quarter of all permits in Ukraine to extract oil and gas. Initially published in Ukrainian on Ma
Apr. 13, 2018
Pro-Russian militants shot a woman near the Olenivka checkpoint on the line of contact, the spokesperson for the State Border Service, Oleh Slobodyan, has said on Facebook. Read more here.
Apr. 8, 2018
DTEK and China Machinery Engineering Corporation have signed a contract for the construction of a solar power plant with an installed capacity of 200 MW in Nikopol (Dnipropetrovsk region). DTEK Head M
Apr. 6, 2018