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Darth Vader lives a normal life in Ukraine
Darth Vader was bent on galactic domination, but his Ukrainian namesake enjoys more mundane pursuits – local politics, walking the family dog and embroidery. …read more Source: The Peace River Record...
Ukraine lawmaker manhandles PM Yatseniuk in rowdy parliament scenes
Fighting erupts after member of President Petro Poroshenko’s bloc picks up Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk and pulls him from podium …read more Source: The Globe and...
Brawl erupts in Ukrainian parliament after lawmaker swats PM with bouquet of roses, tries to drag him from podium
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk was delivering his annual report to parliament, urging lawmakers to adopt the state budget for 2016 and a new tax code …read more Source: Vancouver...
Scuffles erupt at Ukrainian parliament, PM dragged from post
Scuffles involving several dozen lawmakers have erupted at Ukraine’s parliament after one deputy tried to drag the prime minister away from the rostrum. …read more Source: CTV...
Leonid Bershidsky: Dutch art heist stirs opposition to EU membership for Ukraine
A bizarre episode involving two dozen stolen paintings by old Dutch masters shows how far Ukraine still has to go before it becomes a European nation — and explains why many Dutch people have misgivings about ratifying Ukraine’s association agreement with the European Union. The Westfries Museum in the idyllic Dutch town of Hoorn was robbed...
Is Ukraine’s power deficit leaving Crimea open to the Russian bear’s embrace?
Over the last six months or so Crimea hasn’t been in the news that much. Then a few electrical pylons on Ukrainian soil carrying electricity throughout the peninsula were toppled by several well-placed bombs. The next day the entire peninsula and part of Ukraine, were cut off from electricity. More than three quarters of Crimea’s 2.2...
UN: 9,000 killed in Ukraine conflict, but now violence eases
More than 9,000 people have died in 21 months of fighting in eastern Ukraine, even as a new ceasefire has largely held and contributed to a sharp decline in casualties since mid-August, the UN human rights office said Wednesday. …read more Source: CTV...
Over 9,000 people killed in 21 months of Ukraine fighting: UN
More than 9,000 people have died in 21 months of fighting in eastern Ukraine, the U.N. human rights office said Wednesday. …read more Source: Global...
Ukrainian ultra-nationalists hold trove of stolen Dutch paintings for $74 million ransom
AMSTERDAM — A trove of Dutch Golden Age paintings stolen a decade ago is being held for ransom by a Ukrainian far-right militia group with “contacts on the highest political levels,” a museum in the Netherlands said Monday. Westfries Museum in Hoorn said it believed the 24 looted artworks, which had an estimated value of 10 million euros...
Ukraine rebels linked to trove of stolen Dutch Golden Age art
A trove of Dutch Golden Age art stolen from a provincial Dutch museum nearly 11 years ago has been linked to a volunteer nationalist militia in Ukraine, the museum announced Monday. …read more Source: CTV...
