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Life in a war zone Ukraine
How do you go about your daily life while under constant threat of bombardment? We speak to families in Slavyansk to find outIt isn’t yet dusk, but the sky to the south is darkening with an approaching storm as Denis Dragusevich and Zhenya Kucheryavaya play with their three small boys in a dusty apartment-building playground in Slavyansk....
Gangs offer free gun with every RPG
Gangsters from Moldova are trafficking weapons from the separatist region of Transdniestria to Ukrainian pro-Russian fighters, according to an investigative… …read more Source: The...
Ukraine’s president seeks new crisis talks at weekend, fighting rages
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine has proposed a time and a place for talks on Saturday on reaching a durable ceasefire with pro-Russian rebels and is awaiting a reply, the president’s website said, as fighting in the east killed 13 servicemen. …read more Source:...
Belarus vows to build military might at independence parade – video
Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko vows to build up military might to defend the state from external ‘interference’. He cites the Middle East and neighbouring Ukraine as examples where ethnic tensions and instability have spread as a result. The announcement was made at a military parade on Thursday to mark the Belarussian...
German factory orders fall more than predicted
Official figures for the German economy may add to recent worries about the eurozone’s growth as tensions in Russia and Ukraine drive down foreign demand …read more Source: The...
Angry crowd physically attack Ukraine governor
Video footage shows the moment the governor of Ukrainian town Khmelnytsky was confronted and attacked on Wednesday …read more Source: The...
Ukraine protests to Russia over airspace violations
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday it had protested to Russia over “gross, systematic violations” of Ukrainian airspace and demanded they stop immediately. …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s parliament gives preliminary approval to government energy proposals
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Ukraine’s parliament gave preliminary approval on Friday to a government draft law that would allow Kiev tighter control over the energy sector in the face of dwindling natural gas supplies after Russia cut off exports last month. …read more Source:...
The long shadow of Chernobyl
A new book from National Geographic photographer Gerd Ludwig documents the worst nuclear disaster in history with sobering but stunning images. Ludwig visited Chernobyl nine times in 20 years to tell the stories of the lives of the victims, the exclusion zone and the abandoned city of Pripyat. The book also contains an essay from former president...
Ukraine governor attacked by angry crowd in Khmelnytskyi – video
The governor of the central Ukrainian city of Khmelnytskyi is attacked by an angry crowd of local residents. Footage of the attack shows Leonid Prus hit repeatedly over the head by a woman and lifted up by the unhappy crowd. Prus later attempts to escape out of a window but is again confronted by the crowd outside … …read more Source:...
