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NPR
February 23, 2018
On the day Olga Skripnik fled her home in Crimea, many of her fellow Crimeans were celebrating. On March 16, 2014, separatist leaders in the Ukrainian province rushed through a referendum on joining Russia in violation of Ukraine's constitution. The controversial measure, which few countriesÃÂ ...
Kyiv Post
February 23, 2018
Investment and development company UDP Renewables has built the biggest solar power plant in Kyiv Oblast as it occupies 12 hectares of land. It plans to operate the plant at an annual capacity of 50 megawatts by the end of this year and at 300 megawatts by 2020. The company belongs to UkrainianÃÂ ...
PinkNews
February 21, 2018
A Ukrainian province has unanimously voted for a “gay propaganda law” to be legislated in Ukraine. The law, which would prohibit LGBT+ people and relationships from being represented in public, has been tabled by the Ivano-Frankivsk city council in western Ukraine, with 29 officials voting to send aÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
February 20, 2018
After leaving the presidency, Saakashvili, after a year or so, due to his relationship with Petro Poroshenko, who was elected president of Ukraine in 2014, became an adviser to the Ukrainian government and then governor of Ukraine's Odessa oblast. However, the Saakashvili that took over Odessa was noÃÂ ...
The Province
February 20, 2018
KIEV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a bill aimed at reintegrating the territory in the country's east controlled by Russia-backed separatists. The bill passed last month designates the areas in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions as “temporarily occupied” by “aggressor country”à...
Balkan Insight
December 27, 2017
In 2014, as warfare erupted in Ukraine between pro–Russian separatists in the east and Ukrainian fighters, many Russian sympathisers from the Balkans, ... for Serbia in the dispute over the former province of Kosovo [which declared independence in 2008 – which Serbia has vowed never to recognise].
Aljazeera.com
December 27, 2017
Ukraine and Russia-backed separatists have conducted a mass prisoner swap, marking the largest such deal since the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine broke out in 2014. The captives - who include activists and journalists - were exchanged on Wednesday near the town of Horlivka, northeast of Donetsk.
Kyiv Post
December 26, 2017
Serhiy Kodman and his daughter Nina go through the letters his son, Oleksiy, has sent them from the prison in Donetsk Oblast. (Rostyslav Kovalchuk). Photo by Rostyslav Kovalchuk. Moscow is holding over 60 Ukrainian political prisoners in occupied Crimea and Russia, with many. Like Oleg Sentsov andÃÂ ...
Sputnik International
November 8, 2017
The UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine ... infrastructure in Donetsk province, eastern Ukraine," Walker said.
Mirror.co.uk
November 8, 2017
Baffled residents were left fearing an alien invasion when strange lights appeared in the sky. The bizarre spots raised UFO suspicions among ...
ReliefWeb
November 8, 2017
UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, ... and gas supply infrastructure in Donetsk province, eastern Ukraine.
Kyiv Post
November 6, 2017
Donbas-Ukraine Battalion defends Donetsk Oblast stronghold of ... force of pro-Ukrainian civilians living in the war-torn Donetsk Oblast.
Kyiv Post
October 20, 2017
... rising last November to become the first Ukrainian country manager in the ... Its American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine profile says it has invested ... other in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast city of Pokrov (formerly Ordzhonikidze), ... in 11 cities of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, the country manager said.
Kyiv Post
October 19, 2017
Students walk past Transcarpatian Hungarian College Ferenc Rakoczi II in Berehove, a city of 24,000 people in Zakarpattya Oblast some 800Â ...
ReliefWeb
October 19, 2017
This will be a significant breakthrough for the residents of Luhansk province, both from GCA and NGCA, as Stanytsia Luhanska is the only ...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
The three-and-a-half hour Ukrainian Orthodox Divine Liturgy, she said, would allow her time to meditate about her life, her soul. ... I also learned why the Ziatyks were living in the Ternopil oblast when the village listed on my mother's baptism record was some 225 miles to the west, in the foothills of theÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
December 31, 1999
While the war in Ukraine's eastern province of Donbas rumbles on, the regions of Polissya and Zakarpattya in the country's west are corroded by systemic ... These are suggested by the phenomena of organised crime in, and mass migration from the two western Ukrainian regions of north-western PolissyaÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 31, 1999
KYIV -- Tycoon Ihor Kolomoyskiy says that a London court's freezing of assets held worldwide by him and his partner, Hennadiy Boholyubov, in connection with trouble at Ukraine's largest lender, PrivatBank, is only "temporary." The government nationalized PrivatBank, founded by billionaire former regionalÃÂ ...
Kyiv Post
December 31, 1999
Ukrainian gunmen form up in a line as they wait for the President Poroshenko's arrival at the army firing range in Divychky in the Kyiv Oblast on ...
Ukrinform. Ukraine and world news
December 31, 1999
Liberal Party Member of Provincial Parliament Yvan Baker said this during a visit to Canada of Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman, ...
Deutsche Welle
December 31, 1999
Ukraine doesn't need new Maidan revolutions! ... Mikhail Saakashvili, 49, is a Ukrainian opposition politician and the former president of Georgia. ... down from his position as governor of Ukraine's Odessa province in 2016.
Voice of America
September 11, 2017
Saakashvili has been stateless since his former mentor, Ukrainian ... appointed him governor of the Odessa Oblast (region) in May 2015.
The Times
September 10, 2017
'We grazed on grass and pigweed, like cattle,” reported Todos Hodun, a peasant from the province of Cherkasy, recalling the famine thatÃÂ ...
Ukrinform. Ukraine and world news
September 9, 2017
People of Ukrainian descent have made a significant contribution to the ... Minister of Culture and Tourism of the Canadian province of AlbertaÃÂ ...
IHS Jane's 360
September 9, 2017
Military analysts in Ukraine keeping track of developments in the eastern Donbas provinces of Lugansk and Donetsk are reporting a stagedÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty (blog)
September 2, 2017
A bomb exploded in a car in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on September 8, ... and ex-governor of Ukraine's Odesa Oblast, gathered at the borderÃÂ ...
Kyiv Post
September 1, 2017
A memorial stone is seen near a destroyed Ukrainian tank at frontline positions near the town of Troitske in Luhansk Oblast on July 29.
Ukrinform. Ukraine and world news
December 31, 1999
Ukraine, Vietnam interested in developing bilateral trade and economic ... a tourist destination for Ukrainian citizens and spread the information about ... Klimkin invited Mr. Tong Quang Thin and the Province leadership to visitÃÂ ...
China Daily
December 31, 1999
KIEV - About 2,000 representatives of Ukrainian business will attend ... capital of South China's Guangdong province, a senior Ukrainian official said on Wednesday. "Canton fair is well-known in Ukraine and it enjoys a greatÃÂ ...
Kyiv Post
March 24, 2017
Russian-backed forces in the Donbas attacked Ukrainian troops with mortars, artillery, small arms, and tanks over the last 24 hours, Ukrainian Ministry of Defense spokesperson Andriy Lysenko said at a press conference on March 24. No Ukrainian soldiers ...
New York Times
March 24, 2017
Continue reading the main story. The fight between Afghan forces and the Taliban took a momentous turn in the southern province of Helmand as militants overran the strategic district of Sangin after years of costly assaults on British, U.S. and Afghan ...
VietNamNet Bridge
March 24, 2017
The event was attended by Governor Yulia Svetlychnaya and other senior officials of Kharkov province, Ukrainian veterans and experts who once worked in Vietnam, officials from the Vietnamese Embassy in Ukraine and Vietnamese expats in the provinceÃÂ ...
Kyiv Post
March 24, 2017
Massive fires still raged on March 23 at the Ukrainian armed forces' biggest ammunition depot, near Balakliya in Kharkiv Oblast some 600 kilometers east of Kyiv. The base was rocked by a series of massive explosions of unknown origin, although ...
Belfast Telegraph
March 23, 2017
Ukrainian police said Mr Voronenkov was shot by an unidentified gunman at the entrance of an upmarket hotel in the Ukrainian capital. Mr Voronenkov, 45, a former member of the communist faction in the lower house of Russian parliament, had moved toÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 23, 2017
The Daily Vertical: Putin's Plan B In Ukraine (Transcript). March 22, 2017. Brian Whitmore ... So Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has denied that Russia was preparing to annex territories in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts occupied by Moscow's proxies. And ...
Belarus News (BelTA)
March 22, 2017
MINSK, 22 March (BelTA) - The international program Chernobyl Road - Road of Life: Into the Future with Hope kicked off in Kalinkovichi, Gomel Oblast on 22 March, BelTA learned from Yekaterina Dalidovich, the author and coordinator of the project ...
Mirror.co.uk
March 21, 2017
A Ukrainian judge who was once stabbed in the back 12 times has been compared to a villainous Disney octopus. Alla Bandura, who works in Ukraine's Rivne Oblast region, is known for her striking and elaborate image. She likes to wear bright red lipstick ...
Open Democracy
March 21, 2017
These official Ukrainian government statistics don't include Crimea or the parts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts not controlled by Ukraine (the so-called "Donetsk People's Republic" and "Luhansk People's Republic"). This means these figures could ...
EurasiaNet
March 20, 2017
A tank takes position during a drill conducted in December 2016 by the newly established 150th Motorized Rifle Division in Russia's Rostov region, about 50 kilometers from the border with Ukraine. ... To that end, Russia has been building up its armed ...
Regina Leader-Post
March 19, 2017
Twenty-six years ago, the Tavria Ukrainian Folk Dance Ensemble attended the Prince Albert festival - at the time it was the only Ukrainian dance festival in the province. They enjoyed it so much that when they returned home they decided to start their ...
APA
March 18, 2017
Najafov said that one of the trucks was loaded in Starokonstantinovsk district of Khmelnytsk oblast and the other in Pryluky city of Chernihiv oblast. "The trucks passed customs inspection. However, the contact with the drivers suddenly lost and it is ...
Kyiv Post
March 18, 2017
"The situation remains most difficult near Avdiyivka and its nearby frontline zones," Lysenko said, referring to the frontline Ukrainian city in Donetsk Oblast where the latest surge in fighting broke out in late January. "Usually the enemy becomes ...
Open Democracy
March 16, 2017
The trip south from Kyiv to the villages of Cherkasy oblast takes several hours by bus over often bumpy roads, but I don't mind - the idyllic countryside and expansive views of chernozem, the black soil that Ukraine is famous for, provides some ...
Kyiv Post
March 14, 2017
Ukraine's government delivered a blow to plans to disrupt trade between Ukraine and Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine: Law enforcement agencies broke up an activists' blockade of a railway line on March, 13. The blockade organizers fear it could be ...
Greek Reporter
March 13, 2017
Unbeknownst to many, Greeks make up the third largest nationality in the Donetsk Oblast (Donetsk Province) in the Ukraine. In particular, the region is home to the city of Mariupol where a large influx of Pontic Greeks came to settle as far back as 1780.
BloombergQuint
February 22, 2017
"Investors see three main problems in Ukraine: corruption, corruption and corruption," said Daniel Bilak, chief investment adviser to Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroisman.
Huffington Post
February 22, 2017
Russia has not invaded eastern Ukraine. There are no regular units of the Russian military in the breakaway provinces, nor has Russia launched any air strikes from its territory. It has sent weapons and other provisions to the Ukrainian forces seekingÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
February 22, 2017
People living along the line of contact in the GCA are beset with a host of legal issues affecting their enjoyment of basic human rights and fundamental freedoms.
The Province
February 22, 2017
Each year, the province funds UBC to admit a set number of domestic students and we consistently exceed these targets. In 2016-17, UBC was funded to enrol 29,654 full-time domestic undergraduate students and it enrolled 30,898.
Kyiv Post
February 21, 2017
Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych abandoned office and fled the country shortly after his security forces carried out the Feb. 20, 2014 massacre on Instytutska Street.
