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    From Chocolate King To Commander In Chief: Ukrainian President Fights For Reelection
    Mar27

    From Chocolate King To Commander In Chief: Ukrainian President Fights For Reelection

    Petro Poroshenko’s reelection campaign focuses on his leadership amid armed conflict with Russia-backed separatists, but his failure to stamp out corruption is also weighing on the minds of Ukrainian voters. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Unrest in Ukraine as nation prepares to elect new leader
    Mar27

    Unrest in Ukraine as nation prepares to elect new leader

    Experts say Ukrainian voters are being bombarded with disinformation ahead of the national election this weekend, as protesters reject President Petro Poroshenko. …read more Source: United Press...

    Ukraine’s Rural Villages Long for Government Help
    Mar27

    Ukraine’s Rural Villages Long for Government Help

    The stained-glass windows of Podilske’s towering concrete cultural hall radiate the idealized vision of Ukraine’s Soviet past: bucolic scenes of bountiful wheat fields, agricultural mechanization and content families toiling the land for the greater good. The modern reality is very different. Many of the village houses and farms are...

    Ukraine’s Rural Villages Long for Government Assistance
    Mar27

    Ukraine’s Rural Villages Long for Government Assistance

    As Ukraine prepares to choose its next president in elections scheduled Sunday, one of the biggest challenges remains its sluggish economy. Henry Ridgwell reports from Podilske, one hundred and forty kilometers southeast of Kyiv, where the local mayor is trying to stop the exodus of young people leaving the village. …read more Source: Voice...

    The New Chernobyl Cleanup: Tourist Trash
    Mar27

    The New Chernobyl Cleanup: Tourist Trash

    Tourists visiting the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster have left so much litter that volunteers have been dispatched to clear it up. Radiation levels in the area around the former nuclear plant in Ukraine, though much higher than natural levels, have dropped considerably over the decades. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe /...

    Russian security forces raid homes of Crimean Tatars
    Mar27

    Russian security forces raid homes of Crimean Tatars

    The Russian intelligence agency in the occupied Ukrainian Crimean peninsula says that it is searching multiple homes for members of a banned extremist organization. …read more Source: FOX...

    Who’s Who In Ukraine: In One Town, Most Names Are The Same
    Mar27

    Who’s Who In Ukraine: In One Town, Most Names Are The Same

    In the western Ukrainian town of Sernyky, more than two-thirds of the inhabitants share the same surname, Polyukovich. It could be cause for confusion, particularly in the upcoming elections, but locals say they’ve got everything figured out. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Crimean Tatars Said Detained After House Searches
    Mar27

    Crimean Tatars Said Detained After House Searches

    Russian-imposed authorities in Ukraine’s occupied Crimea region have detained several Crimean Tatars after searching at least 25 houses, a Ukrainian human rights group says. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Ukraine’s Action Man President Faces Voters’ Judgment
    Mar27

    Ukraine’s Action Man President Faces Voters’ Judgment

    By Pavel PolityukKIEV (Reuters) – The bodyguards were nervous, fingers poised over the triggers of their automatic weapons, as Ukraine’s president… …read more Source: U.S....

    Comedian Set to Win First Round of Ukraine Presidential Vote
    Mar27

    Comedian Set to Win First Round of Ukraine Presidential Vote

    By Matthias Williams and Margaryta ChornokondratenkoKIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainians exhausted by five years of war and decades of official corruption… …read more Source: U.S....