For a touring performer, there is nothing more normal than to say something flattering to the local crowd while on stage. But Marilyn Manson just took it one level up. The scandalous American musician
Aug. 3, 2017
President Petro Poroshenko on July 27 suspended the Ukrainian citizenship of ex-Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, dealing a blow to one of his major political opponents. The president cited Saak
Jul. 28, 2017
President Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree to suspend ex-Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s Ukrainian citizenship, Yarema Dukh, a spokesman for the Presidential Administration, told the Kyiv
Jul. 26, 2017
Ukraine’s SBU Security Service has blocked the destructive activities of Mariya Knyazeva, who under the pseudonym “Saushkina” worked for the Rossiya-1 and Rossiya-24 television channels from Ukraine.
Jul. 26, 2017
Opposition Bloc faction members have posted Hr 50 million (around $1.9 million) in bail for arrested lawmaker Mykhailo Dobkin, according to a Facebook post made on July 18 by former Party of Regions m
Jul. 19, 2017
Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on Coda Story website and is republished with permission. Why Russian ultranationalists confronted their own government on the battlefields of Ukrain
Jul. 6, 2017
The Ukrainian state enterprise Antonov (based in Kyiv) has offered the United States to organize cooperation to develop a program for a medium-size military transport aircraft, An-77, an upgraded vers
Jul. 4, 2017
When in 2000 a client filed a lawsuit against Cabot, a private U.S.-Ukrainian dental clinic, the clinic’s young lawyer Serhiy Antonov was soon at his wits’ end. The claimant was making harassing, thre
Jun. 30, 2017
The Obolonsky District Court in Kyiv on June 29 allowed an absentee trial of the high treason case against Ukraine’s fugitive ex-President Viktor Yanukovych. The judges made the ruling after a one-hou
Jun. 29, 2017
Ukraine’s pension system has long been a fiscal time bomb threatening the country. And recently, the ticking got louder. Today, the ratio of Ukrainian workers to pensioners is roughly 1:1, compared to
Jun. 16, 2017
As Russia’s war rages on against Ukraine’s eastern industrial Donbas region, steel and chemical exports continue to take a hit. But as these big commodity exports whither, the country’s agricultural e
Jun. 16, 2017
After a year of investigation by Ukrainian law enforcement, the case of the black ledger — a secret, handwritten list of $2 billion in shady payments by the political party of ousted Ukrainian Preside
Jun. 15, 2017
A new hostel has opened in the heart of the Chornobyl exclusion zone, one of the most radioactive places on the planet. Read more here.
Jun. 8, 2017
According to a new poll, 92 percent of EU citizens who visited Kyiv during the Eurovision Song Contest in early May would like to return to Ukraine. And some 64 percent of the EU citizens said they wo
May. 26, 2017
He says he would never write a song just to get played on the radio and winning Eurovision will not change his life, but who is Salvador Sobral, the Portuguese star who has touched the hearts of milli
May. 14, 2017
Eurovision isn’t all about songs. It’s about business, too. Initially, it was to have cost Ukraine about $24 million to host the show. Instead, Ukraine’s taxpayer-funded national broadcaster is spendi
May. 12, 2017
Lots of cities have Chinatowns — areas where expat Chinese people live and do business in close proximity. And with good reason. Chinese account for nearly 20 percent of the world’s population. But th
May. 11, 2017
The Norwegian participant and the winner of Eurovision 2009 Alexander Rybak recorded his own cover version of 1944 by Jamala. Thus, one winner of the contest contributed to even greater popularity of
May. 11, 2017
During the press conference after the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest late on May 9, contestants who made it to the final thanked their supporters, shared their feelings and some artis
May. 10, 2017
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Ukraine’s postal service on May 4 announced the issue of a stamp honouring 2016 Eurovision winner Jamala as the country gears up to host this year’s televised song competition in Kyiv. Read more here.
May. 4, 2017