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On 30th anniversary of Chernobyl disaster, Ukraine remembers its victims [Photos]
KIEV – Ukraine held memorial services on Tuesday to mark the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which permanently poisoned swathes of eastern Europe and highlighted the shortcomings of the secretive Soviet system. …read more Source: The Toronto...
Ukraine tears down giant Lenin statue, live on YouTube
Exhaustive efforts to tear down Ukraine’s largest remaining monument to Vladimir Lenin bore fruit on Thursday when workers prized the late Soviet leader’s statue from its plinth in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhya. …read more Source: The Toronto...
Brawl breaks out after Ukraine PM manhandled in parliament
Fighting broke out among members of Ukraine’s ruling coalition in parliament on Friday after a member of President Petro Poroshenko’s bloc physically picked up Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk and pulled him from the podium. …read more Source: The Toronto...
Cold in blacked-out Crimea kills rare Bengal tiger cub
A rare white Bengal tiger cub has died of the cold in Crimea amid a two-week power blackout, the zoo’s director said Friday. …read more Source: The Toronto...
Crimea without power from Ukraine after electricity pylons ‘blown up’
Crimea was left without electricity supplies from Ukraine on Sunday after pylons carrying power lines to the Russia-annexed peninsula were blown up overnight. …read more Source: The Toronto...
Ukrainian parliament approves bill banning discrimination of gays
Ukrainian lawmakers have approved a bill that bans discrimination of gays, key legislation intended to help pave the way for visa-free travel between Ukraine and the European Union. …read more Source: The Toronto...
Flight MH17 shot down by Russian-built Buk missile, Dutch report says [Video]
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine by a Russian-made Buk missile, the Dutch Safety Board concluded on Tuesday in its final report on the crash in July 2014 that killed all 298 people on board, most of them Dutch. …read more Source: The Toronto...
Putin, Berlusconi investigated over drinking 240-year-old wine
Ukrainian prosecutors are preparing charges against the director of a winery in Russian-occupied Crimea for allegedly uncorking a 240-year-old bottle for Russian President Vladimir Putin and former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi. …read more Source: The Toronto...
Fragments from MH17 site may be from Russian-made missile: Dutch prosecutors [Video]
AMSTERDAM – Some of the debris recovered from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine may be fragments of a Russian-made missile system, Dutch prosecutors leading an international investigation said on Tuesday. …read more Source: The Toronto...
Putin insists Russia will oppose international tribunal for downing of Malaysian plane
Russian President Vladimir Putin has indicated that Moscow will veto a U.N. Security Council resolution to set up an international criminal court to prosecute those responsible for shooting down a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine a year ago. …read more Source: The Toronto...
