Section: The Netherlands
Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Watchdog Catches MPs Casting Multiple Votes, Again
Source: Chesno, YouTube On Thursday, the Ukrainian anti-corruption watchdog Chesno recorded five instances of MPs casting multiple votes through parliament’s electronic voting system, marking 161 documented cases of such fraud since the organization began keeping count in December 2014. Videos uploaded to YouTube by Centre UA, an...
Were the signatures calling for the 2016 Ukraine referendum genuine?
The government does not know whether the 427,000 signatures calling for the controversial 2016 referendum on the Ukraine-EU trade treaty… …read more Source:...
Donetsk Court Sentences Two for Supporting Separatism on Social Media
Source: Kremlin.ru On Monday, a court in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine sentenced two men to five years in prison for supporting separatism on the social media website VKontakte. The Donetsk regional prosecutor’s office said in a press release that the two men were convicted by a Sloviansk city court under Part 2 of Article 110 of...
Meet ‘VKgoeswild,’ Ukraine’s Classical Pianist-Turned Rocker
Source: YouTube. By the time she was in kindergarten, Viktoriya Yermolyeva’s parents knew she had a rare talent. Recognizing her perfect pitch and prodigious skill on the piano, they quickly enrolled her in a a special school to be trained as a classical pianist and signed her up for countless competitions and concerts. But over time, the...
Mapping the Smells of Kyiv
Image: Kate McLean On Christmas Day in Britain, people sat down with their families and friends to eat dinner, open gifts, and muster a little holiday spirit. Over the break, artist and designer Kate McLean traveled to Kyiv, planning some innocent sightseeing in Ukraine’s scenic capital. She didn’t know it at the time, but Kyiv would...
Website That Published ‘Yanukovych Blog’ Says It Was Fake
Source: Thierry Ehrmann, Flickr. Little more than two weeks after first appearing on the news website Korrespondent, a blog purportedly written by former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has been deleted by the publication’s editors. Maxim Minin, the editor-in-chief of Korrespondent.net, told RuNet Echo in an e-mail that the...
Anti-Ukraine treaty group takes Dutch government to court
One of the groups behind last year’s referendum on the EU treaty with Ukraine is going to court on Friday… …read more Source:...
Ukraine Bans Russia’s One Independent TV Station
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in Dozhd’s studios. Source: Kremlin.ru On Thursday, Ukraine’s National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting voted unanimously to remove Russian independent TV station Dozhd from its list of approved foreign broadcasters, giving television providers one month to remove the station from...
Journalist outraged as police seize equipment on return from MH17 crash site
A journalist who brought back pieces of wreckage from a visit to the MH17 crash site in Ukraine has accused… …read more Source:...
How Russia’s Conservative Movement Broke Through Online
Pixabay We’ve come a long way since the days when Russian Internet users could be expected to fill their blogs with praise for democracy, freedom, and an end to the Putin regime in Russia. In the last few years, we witnessed a conservative renaissance on the RuNet, though it’s unclear where the community goes from here. Whatever...
