Section: BBC (The United Kingdom)
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcasting statutory corporation. The BBC is headquartered at Broadcasting House in London The BBC is the world’s oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees, with about 23,000 staff.
The BBC is a corporation, independent from direct government intervention, with its activities being overseen by the BBC Trust ( formed on 1 January 2007). Trustees are appointed by the British monarch on advice of government ministers.
BBC has an office in Kyiv since 1993.
Ukraine to top agenda at EU meeting
EU foreign ministers are due to meet in the Latvian capital Riga with the crisis in Ukraine expected to dominate the agenda. …read more Source:...
VIDEO: Inside a tank factory in Donetsk
The BBC’s Tom Burridge visits a factory in Donetsk where rebels say they are repairing tanks seized from the Ukrainian military. …read more Source:...
Nadiya Savchenko: Ukraine resistance symbol in Russia
Captive Ukraine pilot defiant in Moscow jail …read more Source:...
Lawmakers urge Obama to arm Ukraine
Senior figures in Congress urge the US president to send lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine in its fight against pro-Russian rebels. …read more Source:...
VIDEO: Elderly, widowed, her home destroyed
There is little relief for civilians caught up in the conflict in Ukraine, as Fergal Keane reports. …read more Source:...
Polish MPs offered military training
Parliamentarians in Poland will be offered military training because of fears that the war in Ukraine could spread to neighbouring countries. …read more Source:...
Ukraine parliament backs bigger army
Ukraine’s parliament passes a new law to increase the size of the armed forces to counter the threat from pro-Russian separatists in the east. …read more Source:...
Ukraine declares mourning for miners
The Ukrainian president declares a day of national mourning as the death toll from a gas blast in a coal mine reaches 32, with one still missing. …read more Source:...
Ukraine ex-minister held in Spain
Ukrainian former finance minister Yuri Kolobov, who is wanted for fraud, has been arrested in Spain, the interior ministry in Kiev says. …read more Source:...
EU to review policy on neighbours
The European Union is to review its policy towards neighbouring nations amid criticism of its handling of the crisis in Ukraine. …read more Source:...