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Thousands of Russian Orthodox Gather in Kiev Despite Threats
Thousands of Russian Orthodox Christian pilgrims on Wednesday reached the center of Ukraine’s capital and finished their procession to the city’s most revered monastery after their march was disrupted a day earlier.The procession by Ukrainian adherents of Russian Orthodoxy… …read more Source:...
Journalist Who Died in Ukraine Car Bombing Buried in Belarus
Prominent journalist Pavel Sheremet, who died when his car was bombed in Ukraine, has been buried in his hometown of Minsk, Belarus.Sheremet, who once was imprisoned in Belarus, where independent media are under consistent pressure from the authoritarian government, had… …read more Source:...
Hundreds Come to Bid Farewell to Slain Journalist in Ukraine
Hundreds of local residents and journalists have come to pay their respects to a prominent journalist who died in a car bombing in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev earlier this week.The gathering has seen journalists come from Ukraine and Russia to the memorial ceremony in… …read more Source:...
Prominent Journalist Killed in Car Bombing in Ukraine
A prominent journalist was killed in a car bombing in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, on Wednesday, sending shockwaves through the Ukrainian journalist community that was shaped by the gruesome killing of the publication’s founder 16 years ago.The country’s top online news website… …read more Source:...
Women in Russia, Ukraine Unite Online against Sex Abuse
Women across Russia and Ukraine are uniting and speaking out – for once, not about the tensions between their two nations, nor the Russia-backed separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine – but about their experiences of rape and sexual violence.Victoria Ivleva was just 20… …read more Source:...
UN Report Blasts Both sides in Ukraine Conflict
A report from the United Nations’ human rights arm has strongly criticized both sides in Ukraine’s fighting for the killing of civilians in indiscriminate shelling, as well as summary executions of both combatants and civilians.The report released Thursday by the U.N.’s… …read more Source:...
Canada’s Prime Minister on Visit to Ukraine
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is meeting with Ukraine’s president for talks on his first visit to this country.Ukrainian rolled out a red carpet for Trudeau at the welcome ceremony outside President Petro Poroshenko’s office in central Kiev on Monday.Canada is home… …read more Source:...
July 4th Message from Putin to Obama: Let’s Have Better Ties
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday in a July 4 message to President Barack Obama that he hopes that the ties between the two countries will get back on track.Relations between Moscow and Washington hit a post-Cold War low in 2014 when Russia annexed Ukraine’s… …read more Source:...
EU Extends Sanctions on Russia Another 6 Months
The European Union has extended sanctions against Russia for six more months to keep pressure on Moscow to respect the peace agreement in Ukraine.The decision, which had been expected, was announced in a statement Friday. It means restrictive measures targeting Russia’s… …read more Source:...
Operatic Baritone Killed in Ukraine Fighting
A Ukrainian baritone who performed in French opera productions for nearly two decades before joining a volunteer battalion in warring eastern Ukraine has been killed in the fighting.Ukrainian news reports cited the nationalist group Pravy Sektor as saying Wassyl Slipak was… …read more Source:...
