Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a five-part series that examines the Holocaust in western Ukraine that nearly wiped out its 500,000-member Jewish community during Nazi Germany’s occupation in Wor
Jul. 14, 2011
A selection of quotes in response to the arrest Thursday of Ratko Mladic, the top Bosnian Serb general during the 1992-95 Bosnian war who was wanted for genocide and other war crimes.
May. 26, 2011
Ukraine’s renewable energy market looks more promising, especially with the adoption of green-tariff price incentives for electricity from renewable energy sources.
May. 20, 2011
The former economy minister says he is not out of Ukrainian politics.
May. 19, 2011
A wreath which Russian Consul General in Lviv Oleg Astakhov was to lay at the Lviv military cemetery was grabbed away and treaded to pieces as a Russian diplomatic delegation was on its way to the Hil
May. 9, 2011
In Europe’s breadbasket, critics are talking about the ‘Great Grain Robbery.’ Agriculture Minister Mykola Prysyazhnyuk is under fire for state controls on grain exports that favor a controversial comp
Apr. 15, 2011
Fifty years after the landmark trial of Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann began, Israel on Monday marked the event that ushered in a new era of openness toward the Holocaust and its survivors with an ex
Apr. 11, 2011
Jaan Hein, Estonian Ambassador Estonia advises Ukraine on reforms. We are an example of a successful state. In the 1990s, we went through the reforms that Ukraine needs to undergo, taking Sweden and F
Mar. 24, 2011
A special working group set up in Ukraine has passed Japan its proposals on stabilizing the situation at the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant in Japan.
Mar. 17, 2011
Vaclav Havel, the former president of the Czech Republic and one of the world’s leading democracy activists, said that post-communist Eastern European nations are still stuck in the authoritarian past
Mar. 9, 2011
The personal nurse of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi went shopping in her Ukrainian home town on Monday but refused to speak of her life in Libya, which she fled on Saturday.
Feb. 28, 2011
Judge’s ruling seen as victory for press freedoms worldwide.
Feb. 25, 2011
Be careful what you say or write about two Ukrainian billionaires, Rinat Akhmetov and Dmytro Firtash. If they really take offense, they might file a libel lawsuit against you in London, the ’libel tou
Feb. 11, 2011
The chairman of the Mejlis, the parliament of the Crimean Tatars, and MP from OU-PSD faction, Mustafa Dzhemilev, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Radio Liberty reported on Tuesday.
Feb. 2, 2011
The former economy minister and now political refugee residing in the Czech Republic says selective persecution is underway in Ukraine.
Jan. 21, 2011
Kaskiv says protesters against president should ‘declare their patriotism and high goals’ for nation
Jan. 21, 2011
Seven presidential candidates who ran against the country’s authoritarian leader could face up to 15 years in prison and one was beaten so badly in the election’s aftermath he is unable to walk, hi
Dec. 22, 2010
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