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Ukraine President asks MPs to sack Prosecutor, appoint foreign minister
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has asked parliament to sack General Prosecutor Yuri Lutshenko and to appoint a former Ukrainian envoy to NATO, Vadym Prystaiko, as new foreign minister, a presidential official said on Tuesday. …read more Source:...
Six die in fire in Ukraine psychiatric clinic
Six people died in a fire in a municipal psychiatric clinic in the Ukrainian southern port of Odessa, Ukraine’s emergencies service said on Tuesday. …read more Source:...
Moldova and the Russia-EU tug of war explained
Description Demonstrators with Moldovan flag Political crisis in former Soviet republic as president is removed from office In Depth Monday, June 10, 2019 – 2:55pm Moldova is in political turmoil as diplomatic tensions between Russia and the EU are played out …read more Source: The...
Party of Ukraine’s new president leads parliamentary vote race
The party of Ukraine’s new President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has kept a strong lead ahead of a parliamentary election due on July 21, an opinion poll showed on Monday. …read more Source:...
Australian couple considered suicide after their three children were killed onboard MH17
A Perth couple considered taking their own lives just hours after their three children were killed in the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014. …read more Source: Daily...
Secret Child of Chernobyl:Russia’s nuclear baby Mariyka forced to grow up alone in fallout
SHE LOOKS like any other female student in summery Kiev but Mariyka, soon to celebrate her 20th birthday, is unique. …read more Source:...
Deposed dictators have often found somewhere to flee to – so where would Putin go?
Even with so much plundered wealth, which respectable state and political leadership would accept such a fugitive? In 1989-90, the Communist bloc’s rapid collapse and German reunification cut short Vladimir Putin’s promising KGB career in Dresden. Just a decade later, he was president of Russia and, excepting Dmitry Medvedev’s...
Chernobyl now: ‘I was not afraid of radiation’ – a photo essay
Photographer Tom Skipp visited Chernobyl and nearby Pripyat, its replacement town Slavutych, and the abandoned sites of the region – meeting the people behind the disaster: from the liquidators who worked at the fallout site, to the resettlers and the community who live and work in the area nowI arrived in Ukraine on the eve of the...
Crimea is still in limbo five years after Russia seized it
THE METALLIC likeness of Catherine the Great towers over a park in Simferopol, the capital of Crimea. First erected in 1890 to commemorate the centenary of Catherine’s capture of the peninsula, it was torn down after the Russian revolution. After the Soviet Union collapsed, leaving Crimea part of newly-independent Ukraine, attempts to...
Why everyone’s talking about swine fever
Credits Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Alt Text Police lured rogue pig back to farm using snacks from KFC Millions of pigs are culled as ‘biggest animal disease ever’ hits Southeast Asia In Depth Thursday, June 6, 2019 – 2:00pm …read more Source: The...
