Section: The Guardian (The United Kingdom)
Volunteers in Ukraine: ‘If we want change, we have to inspire kids’
Our project teaching children to speak English is about cultural exchange and solidarity with our neighbours. This is how to reform a countryIn February 2014, 100 people – now known as the “heavenly hundred” – were shot dead by riot police during protests in Independence Square, Kiev. The “revolution of dignity” began as an outcry against the...
Eurovsion: Anja Nissen becomes second Australian in 2017 final
Twenty-one-year-old from the Blue Mountain is representing her parents’ birth country Denmark in annual song contestAnja Nissen has become the second Australian through to the 2017 Eurovision grand final in Kiev, joining Isaiah Firebrace in the climax of the annual song contest. Related: Australia’s Isaiah Firebrace through to...
Ukraine spy agency ‘may have seen planting of bomb that killed journalist’
New film suggests an intelligence services agent was present when device was hidden under Pavel Sheremet’s car last JulyA new documentary film alleges that Ukraine’s spy agency may have witnessed the planting of a car bomb that killed a prominent journalist last July in Kiev.Pavel Sheremet had just left his home in the Ukrainian...
Victory Day in Russia and former Soviet republics – in pictures
Nations of the former USSR commemorate the 1945 defeat of Nazi Germany in the second world war. The Soviet Union is estimated to have lost 26 million people in the war, including 8 million soldiers. Victory Day is Russia’s most important secular holiday … …read more Source: The...
Ukraine bans Steven Seagal as threat to national security
Security service says it has forbidden Seagal entry into country for five years, after actor received Russian citizenshipUkraine has banned American action movie star Steven Seagal as a national security threat, making him the latest of several cultural figures to be blacklisted.The Ukrainian security service said it had forbidden Seagal entry to...
Ukraine investigates 94-year-old Soviet veteran over nationalist’s death in 1952
Soviet army veteran Boris Steckler faces murder inquiry over his role in death of Ukrainian insurgent and could be jailedUkraine’s prosecutor general has opened a murder investigation against a 94-year-old Red Army veteran over the 1952 killing of a nationalist insurgent.The case comes amid a “decommunisation” campaign by the Ukrainian...
Banned Russian singer to perform in Crimea as Eurovision starts
Yulia Samoilova will give a concert in the annexed territory after Ukraine banned her from competing in the 2017 contest in KievThe Russian singer banned from this year’s Eurovision song contest will give a concert in annexed Crimea on the same day the music tournament starts in Kiev.Ukrainian authorities banned Yulia Samoilova from...
Trash talk: how beautiful, progressive Lviv became overrun with rubbish
The Ukrainian city of Lviv – long noted for its Habsburg-era buildings and vibrant cafes – is in the throes of a trash crisis. Who is really to blame?An enchanting city in western Ukraine, Lviv has gained a pleasant reputation for its rugged, Habsburg-era beauty and vibrant cafe scene. More recently, however, it has become known for something...
Winter returns to Europe with a vengeance
Farmers fear for crops after a week of frost and snow, while a persistent heatwave in India costs scores of livesAfter a very warm start to April, parts of Central and Eastern Europe reverted to winter mode over the Easter weekend and throughout last week as unusually cold air for this time of year spread southwards bringing snow and sub-zero...
Ukraine president asks US to maintain sanctions against Russia
Petro Poroshenko makes appeal to Trump administration, saying policy is only way to keep Russia at negotiating tableUkraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko, has appealed for the Trump administration to maintain sanctions against Russia, saying it is the only way to keep Vladimir Putin at the negotiating table and Russian tanks away from...
