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MARIUPOL, Ukraine – The glory days of the volunteer fighting units of the ultra-nationalist Right Sector organization are over – at least for now. The controversial group has been riven by disagreemen
Nov. 2, 2017
Witches are believed to gather at high bald hills at nighttime to cast spells and do the rituals. But Kyiv witches are cooler than that: They just got themselves a bar. Lysa Hora, or literally “bald h
Oct. 27, 2017
Kyiv Economic Court has ruled that Ukraine’s monopoly fixed-phone operator Ukrtelecom is to be returned to state ownership because its investor failed to meet privatization commitments. On Oct. 19, th
Oct. 20, 2017
It’s one of the most famous phrases ever uttered about the USSR: “There is no sex in the Soviet Union.” But American film director Chad Gracia wants to disprove that outlandish claim. He is filming a
Oct. 17, 2017
Ukraine’s Chief Military Prosecutor Anatoliy Matios has said that a 150-kilometer section of Ukraine’s state border with Hungary is private and that border guards do not have full access to this terri
Oct. 17, 2017
To mark the United Nations’ International Day of the Girl Child on Oct. 11, Ukrainian girls took to a soccer pitch in Kyiv to break a gender stereotype. The “EmPower Girls” soccer competition saw eigh
Oct. 12, 2017
The so-called Freedom March demanding decriminalization of small quantities of marijuana possession and calling for medical use of cannabis will be held in Kyiv on Oct. 28. Freedom March press coordin
Oct. 12, 2017
Croatia beat Ukraine 2:0 in the final World Cup qualifier in Kyiv on Oct. 9 night. Read more here.
Oct. 10, 2017
Maria Maksakova, the widow of former State Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov, regularly talked to her former common-law husband Vladimir Tyurin, Ilya Ponomaryov, former deputy of the Russian State Duma, sa
Oct. 9, 2017
Ukraine’s SBU security service has assembled evidence of the involvement of Russian private military company Wagner in hostilities in eastern Ukraine and will give it to prosecutors, the agency’s head
Oct. 7, 2017
Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Vasyl Hrytsak, has said that the SBU established the involvement of the Russian so-called ‘Wagner PMC’, headed by Dmitry Utkin, in destroying Il-76 aircr
Oct. 7, 2017
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has signed Law No. 2167-VIII “On creation of necessary conditions for peaceful settlement of the situation in certain regions of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.” Thi
Oct. 7, 2017
One crucial year in the life of Alina Shilova, a young Ukrainian woman born and raised in the poor suburbs of Kyiv, who is torn between playing football and looking after her family. Alina’s life has
Oct. 6, 2017
With Russia’s war in the Donbas already in its fourth year, Ukraine has already carried out major improvements to its military, hollowed out by defense cuts and neglect under fugitive ex-Ukrainian Pre
Oct. 5, 2017
Football Club Metalist Kharkiv owned by disgraced Ukrainian businessman Serhiy Kurchenko is being returned to state ownership, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko has said. “We can proudly inf
Oct. 3, 2017
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Sep. 29, 2017