More often than not, the attacks appear to be targeted at pro-Ukrainian political and social organizations, causing injuries but no deaths.
A man smokes next to a bombed out house near Donetsk airport in the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014. Photo: Dmitry Lovetsky/AP
KYIV, Ukraine — More than a dozen people were injured late Monday when a grenade blast rocked a courthouse in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv,
With Russia locked in a geopolitical standoff with the West over Ukraine, the Kremlin is selectively deploying historical memory in a bid to bolster support for President Vladimir Putin and his policies.
TOMSK, Russia — As the director of this country’s oldest museum of political repression, Vasiliy Khanevich spends his days inside a musty Siberian basement some 2,000 miles east of Moscow, surrounded by photographs of the dead. His salary is modest and the
As the international community pressures Russia over MH17, attitudes in Moscow appear to be hardening.
MOSCOW, Russia — Vladimir Putin didn’t even wait for the conclusions of a meeting of Russia’s Security Council on Tuesday to denounce alleged Western meddling in Ukraine and reassert the need to bolster his country’s military capabilities. That’s because the
Rebels didn’t even let him get to a press conference before seizing an airport.
KYIV, Ukraine — Before Petro Poroshenko, who won Ukraine’s presidency in the election on Sunday, had even detailed his priorities in a post-election press conference Monday, he was slapped with a fresh raft of reminders of just how tough his job will be. By dawn, armed pro-Russian rebels had seized the central airport in
In the battle for legitimacy, the May 25 vote might just be the country’s most important ever.
KYIV, Ukraine — An overburdened government, a separatist conflict that threatens to tear the country apart, and the hopes and dreams of millions who have waited more than two decades for meaningful change. That’s more or less what’s riding on Ukraine’s presidential election two weeks from now, possibly the country’s most important vote
The heart and soul of Kyiv’s February uprising, activists from Lviv have taken a back seat.
LVIV, Ukraine — If geopolitics were child’s play, the opponents of Ukraine’s revolution might well point their finger at this western city and say: you started it. A bastion of Ukrainian nationalism and the engine of the uprising in Kyiv, Lviv provided the moral and logistic support for the months-long revolution that toppled President Viktor
A politician’s murder casts a dark shadow over the pro-Russia rebellion.
HORLIVKA, Ukraine — Even some of Volodymyr Rybak’s friends suggest he sometimes went too far. The outspoken local councilman was known around this eastern Ukrainian town for his staunch convictions and dogged style. When it came to patriotism, they say, he left little room for compromise with those he believed to be betraying their
