Section: The Netherlands
Museum hopeful stolen paintings in Ukraine will be home soon
Five paintings stolen from a museum in Friesland more than a decade ago could be back home within weeks after… …read more Source:...
Ukraine returns paintings stolen from Netherlands in 2005
Five of the paintings stolen from the Westfries Museum in Hoorn in 2005, will soon be returning to the Netherlands. The Ukraine will hand them over to the Dutch embassy in Kiev and a Dutch expert is traveling to the Ukraine this week to assess their authenticity and condition The post Ukraine returns paintings stolen from Netherlands in 2005...
A Man in Crimea Self-Immolated to Save His Wife’s Cafe From Officials, Who Razed It Anyway
Yalta Harbor. Source: Victoria Vasilieva, Flickr Late last week, 75-year-old Yalta pensioner Alexander Strekalin poured acetone down his back, lit himself on fire, and collapsed near Primorsky Beach in the center of the city. Strekalin, a former deputy head of Yalta’s city administration and years earlier a Chernobyl first responder, was...
MH17 survivors turn to EU for help getting information
Relatives of MH17 victims asked the European Union for help in getting more information on the plane crash in eastern Ukraine in July 2014. They want the EU’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini to put pressure on those involved to release, among other things, missing radar image The post MH17 survivors turn to EU for help getting...
MH17: Dutch criminal investigation results ready Sept. 28
The Joint Investigation Team working on the criminal investigation into the downing of flight MH17 in the Ukraine in 2014, will release the first results of the investigation on September 28th The post MH17: Dutch criminal investigation results ready Sept. 28 appeared first on NL Times. …read more Source: NL...
The City of Mariupol, Ukraine’s Line in the Sand
Tetrapods, normally used to build piers, have been used in Mariupol’s defense, and today are found around the city decorated with Ukrainian folk symbols. Mariupol, Ukraine, July 4, 2016. Photo: Ivan Sigal The Ukrainian city of Mariupol sits 20 km from the front line between the Russian-backed separatists and the Ukrainian military. It is a...
Astronomy May Have Just Debunked Russia’s Claims About a Ukrainian Incursion Into Crimea
Image adapted from Georges Méliès’ famous film, Le voyage dans la Lune. Russian state television may have broadcast false evidence released by the Federal Security Service (FSB) allegedly showing the discovery of a weapons cache belonging to “saboteurs” the Kremlin says the Ukrainian government sent into Crimea. (Kyiv denies these...
Russian Officials in Crimea Shut Off the Internet at the Ukrainian Border
Image edited by Kevin Rothrock. Russian officials shut off Internet access in northern Crimea, near the border town of Armyansk, where Moscow claims to have prevented an armed incursion by Ukrainian spies, according to Olga Kovitidi, Crimea’s representative in the upper house of the Russian parliament and a member of the Federation...
Today Moscow Accused Ukraine of Sending Terrorists Into Crimea. Russian Internet Users Have Been Saying It for Days.
Vladimir Putin at a press conference in Moscow on August 10, 2016. Photo: Kremlin Press Service Military confusion has returned to Crimea, where Russian federal officials are making serious allegations against the Ukrainian government, claiming that Ukrainian intelligence agents infiltrated the border in an attempt to stage a series of terrorist...
Here’s Why Google Maps Changed Some Town Names in Crimea—And Is Now Changing Them Back
As if by magic, Google Maps changed some town names in Crimea overnight. Images edited by Tetyana Lokot. On July 27 Internet giant Google renamed a number of towns, villages, and settlements in Crimea—a peninsula in Ukraine that has been under Russian control since early 2014—on their Google Maps service. The change came after the Ukrainian...
