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    Ukraine Offers Saakashvili Post Of Deputy Prime Minister
    Apr22

    Ukraine Offers Saakashvili Post Of Deputy Prime Minister

    Ukraine’s government has offered former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili the post of deputy prime minister to supervise reforms. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Foreign ministers to confer on Ukraine peace efforts
    Apr22

    Foreign ministers to confer on Ukraine peace efforts

    German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas says he will hold a video conference next week with his Russian, Ukrainian and French counterparts to try to secure progress in efforts to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine …read more Source:: ABC...

    You Might Get a Coronavirus Vaccine Shot in 2021—If You’re Lucky
    Apr21

    You Might Get a Coronavirus Vaccine Shot in 2021—If You’re Lucky

    Javier Zayas PhotographyA year before the at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...

    Patronage and the Pandemic
    Apr20

    Patronage and the Pandemic

    In her testimony to the House Judiciary Committee last December, Stanford Law Professor Pamela Karlan floated a now-prescient hypothetical: what would we think if Trump conditioned disaster relief on a state’s willingness to go after his political opponents? Today, we are faced with the possibility that the President will use this crisis as...

    Wildfires Burning In Ukraine’s Western Zhytomyr Region
    Apr20

    Wildfires Burning In Ukraine’s Western Zhytomyr Region

    Drone video shot on April 18 shows wildfires burning in Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region, about 150 kilometers west of the capital, Kyiv. Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said that three planes and 600 firefighters battled about 15 blazes. Smoke from the fires contributed to air pollution in Kyiv. As of April 20, Avakov said that most of the fires...

    With Ukraine Already on Lockdown, Chernobyl Burns
    Apr19

    With Ukraine Already on Lockdown, Chernobyl Burns

    KYIV, Ukraine—Seriously, what else could go wrong? With Ukraine still on lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, massive wildfires, including one within the Chernobyl exclusion zone, sent clouds of potentially radioactive smog into Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv on Thursday—the same day an unusual sand storm hit the city. The combination...

    Orthodox Churches Hold Diminished Easter Services Amid Pandemic 
    Apr19

    Orthodox Churches Hold Diminished Easter Services Amid Pandemic 

    Orthodox Christians observed the Easter holiday amid extraordinary coronavirus-related restrictions on services that forced many parishioners to watch services on TV or online. Church leaders have struggled to figure out how to observe the April 19 holiday — the holiest day in the Orthodox calendar — while avoiding spreading the coronavirus. Some...

    Smart Weapons Need to Be Smarter
    Apr19

    Smart Weapons Need to Be Smarter

    In January, an Iranian gunner, using Russian equipment, fired surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) at a Ukrainian passenger airliner, killing 176 people. When the airliner was shot down near Tehran, tensions were high. Iran had struck an American base in response to the U.S. killing of the Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani. Nervous Iranian...

    Orthodox churches empty for Easter amid pandemic
    Apr19

    Orthodox churches empty for Easter amid pandemic

    KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Orthodox priests in much of Europe held Easter services in churches empty of parishoners because of restrictions imposed to block the spread of coronavirus. In Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kyiv, priests at the services that began late Saturday night wore the elaborate robes that characterize Orthodoxy’s most important...

    Air quality levels in Ukraine dip to ‘moderate’ as fires continue to burn
    Apr19

    Air quality levels in Ukraine dip to ‘moderate’ as fires continue to burn

    Multiple wildfires spreading across Ukraine have burned 38 homes and 15.4 square miles of forest and forced residents to keep their windows shut due to air pollution. …read more Source:: United Press...