One of six reactors at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant had to be shut down today after an electrical malfunction, adding to Ukraine’s energy difficulties as temperatures plummeted over the weekend.
Dec. 28, 2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin showed no signs of changing his uncompromising stance on the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine during his 3,5-hour press conference on Dec. 18.
Dec. 18, 2014
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s ambitious reform program to attack corruption and stifling Soviet-era bureaucracy won quick approval in parliament on Dec. 11, with 269 members of parliament — meani
Dec. 11, 2014
A new Kickstarter project aims to fight the Russian president with mockery. The project called “VATNIK: The Putin Voodoo Magnet” aims to raise $5,000 to produce voodoo dolls with Vladimir Putin’s face
Dec. 11, 2014
Even though a deadly fighting erupted in Grozny, the capital of Russia’s restive Chechen Republic, overnight in Dec. 4, Russian President Vladimir Putin focus his annual speech to parliament on Ukrain
Dec. 4, 2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin will seek to bolster energy ties with India on a visit next month, his latest move to expand trade links with Asian nations to counter sanctions from the U.S. and its
Nov. 28, 2014
While the Russian tanks were crossing the border of eastern Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin put the blame to the Ukrainian government and its Western allies for bringing the Ukrainian war o
Nov. 18, 2014
Ukraine should get the Russian gas flowing in its pipes after a deal was reached in Brussels late on Oct. 30. The new deal, which should end a five-month disruption in supplies, was brokered by the Eu
Oct. 31, 2014
Although the popularity of former President Viktor Yanukovych’s Party of Regions has plummeted to an all-time low, political consultants have managed to save some of its remnants.
Oct. 24, 2014
When Ukraine’s first post-revolutionary government was appointed in February, six of its ministers and four other key players, including the National Bank governor and National Security and Defense Co
Oct. 16, 2014
PARIS – A Ukranian activist belonging to topless feminist group Femen was convicted for exhibitionism by a Paris court on Oct. 14 for having attacked a statue of Russian President Vladimir Putin at a
Oct. 15, 2014
Multimillionaire Serhiy Taruta was dismissed as governor of the Donetsk Oblast on Oct. 10, according to sources in the Presidential Administration and in Taruta’s office. President Petro Poroshenko’s
Oct. 10, 2014
It is 9 p.m. and it is not Vira Savchenko’s last appointment of the day. As she campaigns for a parliamentary seat in Kyiv Oblast’s Yahotyn ahead of the Oct. 26 election, she is directing her feverish
Oct. 8, 2014
The residence of Filaret, the patriarch of Kyiv and all Ukraine is no luxurious episcopal palace.
Oct. 2, 2014
A photograph posted in “Cargo 200 from Ukraine to Russia” Facebook group shows a plate with personal data of five Russian soldiers buried in a common grave in an identified place in eastern Ukraine. O
Sep. 26, 2014
Editor’s Note: The following is the “memorandum on the fulfillment of the protocol based on the results of consultations of the trilateral contact group (Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Sep. 22, 2014
Mr. Speaker,
Majority Leader,
Members of the House, Members of the Senate
Sep. 19, 2014
Russia doesn’t have the highest standard of living or the best democratic institutions, to say the least, but many believe it is a world leader in one field – propaganda.
Sep. 14, 2014
Editor’s Note: This article was <a href="http://www.novayagazeta.ru/society/65075.html">published in Novaya Gazeta</a>, a Russian newspaper. It is reprinted with
permission.
Anton Tumanov, 20, was br
Sep. 3, 2014
MARIUPOL, Ukraine — Early on Aug. 29, a column of some 70 Ukrainian armored vehicles rushed from Ilovaisk, a city in Donetsk Oblast, through a corridor offered by Russian troops.
Sep. 3, 2014