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    MH17 Trial Resumes Briefly Amid Coronavirus Restrictions
    Mar23

    MH17 Trial Resumes Briefly Amid Coronavirus Restrictions

    The trial in absentia of three Russians and a Ukrainian charged with multiple counts of murder over the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014 resumed briefly at The Hague on March 23 amid coronavirus restrictions. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    When Disease Comes, Rulers Grab More Power
    Mar23

    When Disease Comes, Rulers Grab More Power

    On March 13—Friday the 13th, as it happened—my husband was driving down a Polish highway when he turned on the news and learned that the country’s borders would shut down in 24 hours. He pulled over and called me. I bought a ticket from London to Warsaw minutes later. I don’t live there all of the time, but my husband is Polish, the...

    Ukraine Records 26 New COVID-19 Cases As Kyiv Shuts All Public Transportation
    Mar23

    Ukraine Records 26 New COVID-19 Cases As Kyiv Shuts All Public Transportation

    Ukraine saw the number confirmed coronavirus cases rise to 73 as the capital, Kyiv, on March 23 is closing all public transportation for noncritical personnel. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Zelenskiy, IMF Director Hold Talks On Greater Financial Support Amid COVID-19 Crisis
    Mar23

    Zelenskiy, IMF Director Hold Talks On Greater Financial Support Amid COVID-19 Crisis

    Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy spoke with International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva about greater financial support as the eastern European faces a possible crisis due to the coronavirus. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Out Went The Cabinet, In Came The Coronavirus: Pressure Mounts For Reforms In Ukraine
    Mar22

    Out Went The Cabinet, In Came The Coronavirus: Pressure Mounts For Reforms In Ukraine

    First, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy fired a cabinet that had the confidence of Ukraine’s Western backers. Then came the coronavirus. Has a perfect storm of contentious domestic moves and unprecedented external factors doomed Ukraine’s chances to conduct reforms, attract investment, and shed the influence of the oligarchs? …read...

    “Totalitarianism as a Mindset Can Be Anywhere”
    Mar22

    “Totalitarianism as a Mindset Can Be Anywhere”

    The American Interest recently convened TAI Chairman Francis Fukuyama and Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and The Republic of Imagination, for a wide-ranging conversation. They discussed the coronavirus pandemic, news from Iran, identity politics, campus trends, and why imagination and literature are essential to combatting...

    COVID-19: Kyrgyzstan Mulls State Of Emergency; Ukraine Declares Emergency In Kyiv
    Mar21

    COVID-19: Kyrgyzstan Mulls State Of Emergency; Ukraine Declares Emergency In Kyiv

    Kyrgyzstan’s Security Council has recommended that Prime Minister Mukhammedkalyi Abylgaziev declare a national state of emergency beginning on March 22 due to the coronavirus pandemic. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Ukraine’s Quiet Depopulation Crisis
    Mar21

    Ukraine’s Quiet Depopulation Crisis

    Ukraine’s president wanders the deserted streets of the capital, Kyiv, feasting in vacated supermarkets and ringing the bells of Saint Michael’s Monastery, in the forlorn hope of reaching someone left to hear them. Elsewhere, a few souls can still be found: A pro-Russian fighter stalks empty buildings in the country’s east; a...

    Putin Is Perfecting His Authoritarian Model
    Mar20

    Putin Is Perfecting His Authoritarian Model

    Façades are everything in Russia. Vladimir Putin learned that the hard way in 2011, when he let his own façade slip at a party convention and publicly admitted to an end run around the country’s constitutional term limit on presidents. His hand-picked successor, Dmitri Medvedev, announced that he would step aside to allow Putin to run again...

    Reporter’s Notebook: Lives and Well-Being of Everyone Rest in Hands of All
    Mar20

    Reporter’s Notebook: Lives and Well-Being of Everyone Rest in Hands of All

    For a country that thrives on sociability, life without bars and restaurants, and little social contact, is a test of will and a breaking of entrenched habits. While touring Italy in the early 1900s, American author Henry James noted that Italian life is street life. Now, with the unprecedented nationwide lockdown because of the coronavirus, life...