Section: The Guardian (The United Kingdom)
Ex-president of Georgia freed after dramatic standoff in Kiev
Mikheil Saakashvili threatens to jump from roof before being detained then released in security forces standoff with supportersUkraine’s prosecutor general has called Mikheil Saakashvili a “fugitive from justice” after security service agents detained the former Georgian president at his Kiev apartment, only for him to escape into an angry...
Ex-president of Georgia freed after dramatic standoff in Kiev
Mikheil Saakashvili threatens to jump from roof before being detained then released in security forces standoff with supportersUkraine’s prosecutor general has called Mikheil Saakashvili a “fugitive from justice” after security service agents detained the former Georgian president at his Kiev apartment, only for him to escape into an angry...
Rex Tillerson: state department can be cut as we will soon solve global conflicts
The secretary of state defended the Trump administration’s plan to slash US diplomacy by 31% despite North Korean missile test and Afghanistan escalationRex Tillerson said on Tuesday that the Trump administration’s proposal to slash the state department and foreign aid budget is in part based on an expectation it will be able to...
Henry Marsh: ‘Ukraine is like a Trabant that wants to be a Ferrari’
Henry Marsh is a celebrated neurosurgeon who travels the world teaching his exacting craft. Robert McCrum joins him in Ukraine as he tries to save the life of 11-year-old ViktoriaWe joined the green-gowned brain surgery team soon after daybreak. The chill of the operating theatre was filled with the inevitable frisson of nerves before a big op....
Bad Roads review – love, sex and terror in violent vignettes from Ukraine
Royal Court, LondonThere are echoes of Sarah Kane in Natal’ya Vorozhbit’s powerful play exploring the collateral damage suffered by women during Ukraine’s conflictTheatre can sometimes jolt the memory. At a time when Ukraine has fallen off the media radar, this play by Natal’ya Vorozhbit, translated by Sasha Dugdale,...
On the front line of Europe’s forgotten war in Ukraine
Four years since Russia incited an uprising, Europe’s focus has moved on to Brexit, Isis and migrationLast June, in the intense heat of a Ukrainian summer, four of Ludmila Brozhyk’s neighbours were sitting chatting in the sunshine. The children had stayed indoors, in the relative cool, to watch cartoons. When the mortar bomb dropped...
Sex under siege: Ukrainian drama uncovers how war affects intimacy
The playwright Natal’ya Vorozhbit’s Bad Roads explores the brutal effects of conflict on personal relationships. Sasha Dugdale reveals the pain of translating its harrowing scenes for a new Royal Court productionWhat happens to people’s personal relationships – and, more specifically, their sexual lives – in a time of conflict?...
Russia blamed for attack on Chechen couple who fought with Ukrainian forces
Ukraine officials suspect Russian secret services or pro-Kremlin Chechen assassins behind attack that injured Adam Osmayev and killed Amina Okuyeva on MondayUkrainian officials have said they believe either Russian secret services or pro-Kremlin Chechen assassins were behind an attack on a Chechen man accused of plotting to kill Vladimir Putin...
Man accused of plotting to kill Putin injured and wife killed in Ukraine attack
Husband-and-wife team fought as volunteers alongside Ukrainian forces battling Russian-backed insurgents in the east of the war-scarred countryA Chechen volunteer soldier previously accused of plotting to kill Vladimir Putin has been wounded and his wife killed when their car was attacked near Kiev.Amina Okuyeva died and her husband Adam Osmayev...
Manafort’s ‘lavish lifestyle’ laundered illicit cash through property loans – and Airbnb
The indictment unsealed on Monday details a scheme to turn ill-gotten Ukrainian money into American property that was then mortgaged for millionsPaul Manafort may be about to become the most infamous Airbnb host in America. The former chair of the Trump campaign was charged – along with his “right-hand man” Rick Gates – with conspiring against...
