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    Ukrainian ‘Railroad Ladies’
    Mar18

    Ukrainian ‘Railroad Ladies’

    Ukraine’s traffic controllers and safety officers are a kind of lighthouse: a symbol of how certain things in this country stand firm in the present as a defiant nod to the past. …read more Source:: The New York...

    Untested Agricultural Executive Takes Over As Ukraine’s New Economy Minister
    Mar18

    Untested Agricultural Executive Takes Over As Ukraine’s New Economy Minister

    Ukraine’s parliament has approved 44-year-old Ihor Petrashko as economy minister, whose management career has been in large-scale farming, investment banking, and consulting. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    News of the Day From Around the World, March 17
    Mar18

    News of the Day From Around the World, March 17

    1 Murder trial: The murder trial of three Russians and a Ukrainian accused of involvement in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 will be closed to the public and media when it briefly resumes later this month in a Dutch courtroom at The Hague. The decision announced Tuesday to close the March 23 hearing comes after Dutch courts said...

    Anti-Russian Protests Erupt in Ukraine, Despite Virus Threat
    Mar17

    Anti-Russian Protests Erupt in Ukraine, Despite Virus Threat

    Organizers of a street protest in Kyiv say resisting Russian influence is more important than honoring a ban on mass gatherings. …read more Source:: The New York...

    How Ukraine’s Zelensky lost the anti-corruption movement
    Mar17

    How Ukraine’s Zelensky lost the anti-corruption movement

    The populist has replaced a prosecutor general popular among good-government advocates with a fellow party member who critics say will do his bidding. …read more Source:: The Washington...

    Abductions, Torture, ‘Hybrid Deportation’: Crimean Tatar Activist Describes Six Years Under Russian Rule
    Mar17

    Abductions, Torture, ‘Hybrid Deportation’: Crimean Tatar Activist Describes Six Years Under Russian Rule

    Crimean Tatar activist Mumine Saliyeva, whose husband faces up to 20 years in prison on terrorism charges he says are fabricated, speaks to RFE/RL about the repressions Crimean Tatars have faced in the six years since Russia occupied and seized control of the Ukrainian region of Crimea. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    COVID-19: Iran Warns Virus Could Kill ‘Millions,’ Ukraine Suspends Public Transport
    Mar17

    COVID-19: Iran Warns Virus Could Kill ‘Millions,’ Ukraine Suspends Public Transport

    Iran says 135 more people have been killed by the new coronavirus over the past day, a 13 percent spike that has pushed the death toll to 988, as thousands of inmates were temporarily released in an effort to slow the outbreak. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    MH17 trial to resume with no public due to virus measures
    Mar17

    MH17 trial to resume with no public due to virus measures

    THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The murder trial of three Russians and a Ukrainian accused of involvement in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 will be closed to the public and media when it briefly resumes later this month in a Dutch courtroom. The decision announced Tuesday to close the March 23 hearing comes after Dutch courts said...

    Zelenskiy Calls On Oligarchs To Help Finance Virus Fight As China’s Ma Donates Testing Kits
    Mar17

    Zelenskiy Calls On Oligarchs To Help Finance Virus Fight As China’s Ma Donates Testing Kits

    Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on the nation’s wealthiest businessmen to donate funds and equipment to help fight the coronavirus inside the country. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    A Case for Unity
    Mar16

    A Case for Unity

    At times during CNN’s Democratic debate on Sunday night, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders seemed like feuding former vaudeville stars arguing over which of them muffed his lines in Buffalo 43 years ago. It was Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys brought to a debate stage.In the midst of the worst pandemic in a century, does anyone care that...