The Ukrainian military’s decision to pull volunteer fighters from the obliterated village of Shyrokyne, located just 20 kilometers east of the strategic port city of Mariupol in Donetsk Oblast, has ra
Jul. 28, 2015
People
The social
experiment filming public reactions to a gay couple holding hands and walking
through a city center has been brought to Kyiv by Bird In Flight, an online
photography and visual culture maga
Jul. 24, 2015
Heorhy Tuka, a well-known
volunteer helping Ukraine’s army, was on July 22 appointed governor of Luhansk
Oblast, a key region at the forefront of Ukraine’s war with Russia.
Jul. 22, 2015
Russia and OPEC Secretary-General Abdullah al-Badri will discuss oil markets and the Iran situation in Moscow on July 30 amid sliding oil prices, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said.
Jul. 17, 2015
Eight Ukrainian soldiers were killed and 16 wounded on July 14-15 in Donetsk Oblast, as authorities said Russian-separatist attacks intensified in the past week in war-torn Donbas.
Jul. 17, 2015
The remaining residents of
Russia-separatist stronghold Donetsk have received welcomed support from their
German sister city of Bochum. Through a locally registered non-profit group,
the western Germa
Jul. 15, 2015
Ukraine’s SBU security service says it is still negotiating with fighters from the ultranationalist group Right Sector following a shootout in Mukacheve that killed at least two people on July 11 in U
Jul. 13, 2015
MARIUPOL, Ukraine — Ukraine’s Right Sector fighters and their supporters have vowed to stay in Shryrokyne in Donetsk Oblast and ignore any orders to withdraw, which they said would effectively invite
Jul. 11, 2015
The idea of a global payment platform did not come easy for the founders of Paymentwall. But American Honor Gunday and Ukrainian Vladimir Kovalyov worked together enough to be confident of success in
Jul. 8, 2015
When Valeriya Lutkovska was
appointed Ukraine’s ombudsman on April 22, 2012, she promised to be apolitical
as the nation’s chief steward of human rights.
Jul. 3, 2015
DONETSK, Ukraine – There won’t be any more “bad” news coming
out of the occupied territories in Dontesk – at least if the pseudo-authorities
there manage to enforce their new rules on the work of repo
Jul. 1, 2015
KURAKHOVE, Ukraine – Only 10 miles west of the war front, the Ukrainian army controls the small city of Kurakhove and patrols the streets to look for suspicious people
Jun. 30, 2015
Video footage appears to show Vitaly Malikov, a deputy chief of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), supporting Kremlin-backed separatists in Crimea and a referendum on the peninsula’s secession fro
Jun. 28, 2015
Fighting surged in eastern Ukraine in the last two weeks, as at least three Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and 14 wounded in the past 24 hours in the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk o
Jun. 19, 2015
Weekend summer mornings along the riverside promenade in Kyiv’s Obolon district usually include scenes of strolling families and 20-something crowds. But on June 6, tension, violence and blood ruined
Jun. 11, 2015
Ukraine’s
government received a “Notice of Withdrawal” to abandon a potential $10 billion
gas exploration project from Royal Dutch Shell, the Financial Times
reported citing “sources familiar with the
Jun. 11, 2015
Luhansk Governor Hennadiy Moskal given prosecutors a list of 65 crimes allegedly committed by members of the Aidar Battalion, a volunteer force fighting on the front line that he has frequently descri
Jun. 8, 2015
Protected by hundreds of police officers in Kyiv’s Obolon district, nearly 200 persons tried on June 6 to take part in the second gay pride parade in the last three years.
But violence, almost from th
Jun. 6, 2015
CHISINAU – A relative majority of Moldovans favor their country’s integration with the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and are against accession to NATO, as is seen from a poll of 1,593 respondents co
Jun. 6, 2015
Anti-gay groups in Ukraine, including the militant Right Sector, are threatening to stop a gay pride march planned for June 6.
Jun. 6, 2015