A tense standoff remained overnight on Jan. 23, a day after violent clashes between police and anti-government demonstrators left five protesters dead, including four from gunshot wounds, medical work
Jan. 23, 2014
Yuriy Verbytsky, a Euromaidan protester abducted along with activist Ihor Lutsenko, has been found dead in Boryspil, a suburb of Kyiv, reports Radio Svoboda, citing family members who said they had id
Jan. 23, 2014
Yuriy Verbytsky, a Euromaidan protester abducted along with activist Ihor Lutsenko, has been found dead in Boryspil, a suburb of Kyiv, reports Radio Svoboda, citing family members who said they had id
Jan. 23, 2014
A crowd chanting “Murderers!” and “Glory to Ukraine” briefly retreated this morning after a police assault on their positions left two men dead from gunshot wounds. A third victim, also a protester, r
Jan. 22, 2014
The young man who was shot dead on Hrushevskoho Street, purportedly by riot police during early morning clahses on Jan. 22, was a passionate pro-democracy activist named Sergiy Nihoyan.
Oleg Musiy, th
Jan. 22, 2014
Editor’s Note: EuroMaidan participants and political opposition leaders held a Jan. 19 rally to protest new laws that restrict freedom of speech and peaceful protest. The rally turned violent between
Jan. 22, 2014
For nearly two days, the enraged protests on Hrushevskoho Street in Kyiv looked like a stuck video playing the same scene over and over again: young, masked men advanced toward barricaded police and
Jan. 21, 2014
Prominent EuroMaidan activists Ihor Lutsenko and Yuriy Verbytsky were abducted by five unknown men at 4 a.m. on Jan. 21 from Oleksandrivska Hospital in Kyiv, another civic activist, Mariya Lebedeva, a
Jan. 21, 2014
The Ukrainian Wikipedia community is protesting laws that go into effect Jan. 21 that criminalize criticism of government officials. In a protest banner message on its site, the community says that f
Jan. 21, 2014
Ukraine’s three
largest mobile phone operators denied sending text messages on Jan. 20-21 to
subscribers that stated they were registered “as a participant in a mass
disturbance.”
Jan. 21, 2014
Though no major incidents were reported on Hrushevsky Street in the center of Kyiv as of 6 a.m. as the standoff continues between protesters and riot police in the Ukrainian capital, Berkut riot polic
Jan. 21, 2014
Editor’s Note: EuroMaidan participants and political opposition leaders held a Jan. 19 rally in response to new measures signed into law on Jan. 17 by President Viktor Yanukovych that restrict freedom
Jan. 21, 2014
Both President Viktor Yanukovch and the opposition political leaders delegated representatives to peace talks that kicked off on Jan. 20 to solve the longest and fiercest political crisis in Ukraine’s
Jan. 20, 2014
Law enforcement officers have the right to use firearms during mass disturbances but during the Sunday standoffs the police did not act as harshly as they are allowed to by the law, the Ukrainian Inte
Jan. 20, 2014
Police have detained
two journalists in Kyiv on Jan. 19-20 amid a standoff between anti-government
protesters and law enforcement, according to the Institute of Mass Information, a
local watchdog.
Jan. 20, 2014
Editor’s Note: EuroMaidan participants and political opposition leaders held a Jan. 19 rally in response to new measures signed into law on Jan. 17 by President Viktor Yanukovych that restrict freedom
Jan. 20, 2014
Journalist and opposition activist Tetyana Chornovol said on Jan. 19 that she thinks the reason that she was assaulted Dec. 24 was her investigation of the construction of a new mansion for President
Jan. 19, 2014
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has signed into law sweeping legislation pushed through parliament on Jan. 16 intended to crack down on anti-government demonstrations, according to a statement p
Jan. 17, 2014
This time, it’s for real.
Serhiy Lyovochkin, the longtime chief of state for President Viktor Yanukovych, has resigned and – unlike his previous attempt to quit on Nov. 30 – this time the president ha
Jan. 17, 2014
As hundreds of thousands of peaceful pro-European protesters were rallying on Kyiv’s Independence Square on Dec. 8, just a few blocks away a group of Ukrainian nationalists were toppling a monument to
Jan. 17, 2014