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    23 Hurt When Russian Plane Makes Emergency Landing
    Aug15

    23 Hurt When Russian Plane Makes Emergency Landing

    A passenger jet made an emergency landing in a field outside of one of Moscow’s airports Thursday after colliding with a flock of birds, injuring at least 23 people, Russian officials said.The Ural Airlines A321 carrying 226 passengers and a crew of seven hit the birds as it took off Thursday from Moscow’s Zhukovsky airport en route...

    Ukraine’s Biggest Power Producer Denies Wrongdoing In Price Manipulation Case
    Aug15

    Ukraine’s Biggest Power Producer Denies Wrongdoing In Price Manipulation Case

    Ukraine’s largest private electricity and coal producer DTEK says the country’s antigraft bureau has no “basis” to charge its employees for manipulating electrical power prices, Kyiv-based Concorde Capital investment bank stated on August 14, citing the company’s recently published investor …read more Source: Radio Free...

    Ukraine Deputy Minister Detained Over Alleged $1.1 Million Bribe Scheme
    Aug15

    Ukraine Deputy Minister Detained Over Alleged $1.1 Million Bribe Scheme

    A Ukrainian deputy minister and his aide were detained on August 14 after taking an alleged bribe worth $480,000, the National Anticorruption Bureau (NABU) said on Facebook. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    FSB Raids Offices Of Moscow-Based Human Rights Group
    Aug14

    FSB Raids Offices Of Moscow-Based Human Rights Group

    Agents of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) have raided the offices of Russia Justice Initiative (RJI), a human rights group in Moscow.The group’s press secretary, Ksenia Babich, wrote on her Facebook page that officers said the August 14 searches were being conducted on the basis of a search warrant for the whole building,...

    Ukraine’s Government Backs Away From Fight With Kyiv Mayor Klitschko
    Aug14

    Ukraine’s Government Backs Away From Fight With Kyiv Mayor Klitschko

    Ukraine’s government says it will not seek to take away part of Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko’s executive powers, at least for now. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Court Gives Green Light For Poroshenko To Take Lie-Detector Test
    Aug14

    Court Gives Green Light For Poroshenko To Take Lie-Detector Test

    A Kyiv court has granted permission for authorities to administer a polygraph test to former President Petro Poroshenko in a tax evasion case, a spokeswoman for the State Bureau for Investigations (DBR) told Interfax on August 13. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    National-Security Council Chief: Ukraine’s Spy Agency Is Top Reform Priority
    Aug14

    National-Security Council Chief: Ukraine’s Spy Agency Is Top Reform Priority

    Reformation of Ukraine’s SBU security service was high on the agenda at the August 13 meeting between the head of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) and an international advisory group composed of representatives of the European Union, NATO, and the United States. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    VOA Interview: Russian Opposition Deputy Leonid Volkov 
    Aug14

    VOA Interview: Russian Opposition Deputy Leonid Volkov 

    This story originated in VOA’s Russian Service. WASHINGTON – VOA Russian Service’s Danila Galperovich caught up with Leonid Volkov, fundraising chief for prominent Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, to discuss the recent street protests and mass arrests in Moscow.The interview occurred just hours after Russian officials...

    A Kremlin-Linked Firm Invested Millions in Kentucky. Were They After More Than Money?
    Aug14

    A Kremlin-Linked Firm Invested Millions in Kentucky. Were They After More Than Money?

    Last summer, it looked like things were finally about to change for Ashland, Ky. For two decades, the jobs that once supported this Appalachian outpost of 20,000 people on a bend in the Ohio River have been disappearing: 100 laid off from the freight-rail maintenance shop; dozens pink-slipped at the oil refinery; 1,100 axed at the steel mill that...

    Ukraine’s President Offers Citizenship to Russian Political Refugees
    Aug14

    Ukraine’s President Offers Citizenship to Russian Political Refugees

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a decree Tuesday offering citizenship to Russians suffering political persecution, and also to foreigners who fought on Kyiv’s side in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.Zelenskiy had announced such a move last month in response to a Russian decree expanding the number of Ukrainians who can apply...