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    UN Tribunal To Issue Ruling on Ukrainian Ships Seized By Russia
    May25

    UN Tribunal To Issue Ruling on Ukrainian Ships Seized By Russia

    The ruling by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea is unlikely to definitively end the question of allowing Ukrainian ships full access to the Sea of Azov, which Russia has been restricting since a bridge across the Kerch Strait was completed. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Giuliani meets with former Ukrainian diplomat to get info on Dems
    May25

    Giuliani meets with former Ukrainian diplomat to get info on Dems

    President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani met with a former Ukrainian diplomat last week in an attempt to get information to hurt Democrats. Giuliani told The Washington Post that he met with Andrii Telizhenko who has reportedly made… …read more Source: The...

    The Week In Russia: Church And State And Inauguration-Gait
    May24

    The Week In Russia: Church And State And Inauguration-Gait

    The showdown over plans to build a church on a rare green patch in Yekaterinburg presents a challenge for the Kremlin, but President Vladimir Putin may have something to gain. Plus, a comparative look at the optics of the inaugurations of Putin and Ukraine’s new president. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Zelenskiy, Merkel Discuss Conflict In Eastern Ukraine
    May24

    Zelenskiy, Merkel Discuss Conflict In Eastern Ukraine

    Ukraine’s new President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke by phone on May 24, discussing efforts to resolve the conflict in eastern Ukraine, both offices said. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    After Two Years, Journalist Aseyev Remains Captive In Donbas
    May24

    After Two Years, Journalist Aseyev Remains Captive In Donbas

    In the spring of 2017, RFE/RL contributor Stanislav Aseyev was allegedly abducted by Russia-backed separatists while reporting from the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine. Two years later, he is still being held. His only opportunity to communicate with the outside world was when he appeared in handcuffs on Russian state-run TV and said he had been...

    Estonian President to EU Centrists: Be a Voice for Disenfranchised
    May24

    Estonian President to EU Centrists: Be a Voice for Disenfranchised

    As far-right nationalists look to expand their power in European Parliamentary elections taking place this weekend, Estonia’s president has some advice for politically embattled centrists: don’t blame Brussels for waning political support at home. A once-shining example of democratic growth, progressive e-governance policies and a...

    ‘Brightburn’: What If Superman Was a Murderous, Sexually-Frustrated Supervillain?
    May24

    ‘Brightburn’: What If Superman Was a Murderous, Sexually-Frustrated Supervillain?

    Courtesy of Sony PicturesIntegral to the Superman myth is the issue of nature versus nurture. In its classical incarnation, the DC Comics icon is both the offspring of noble Kryptonian parents and the beneficiary of good old-fashioned heartland values, courtesy of Kansas’ Jonathan and Martha Kent. It’s the latter, however, that at The...

    Ukrainian Church Leaders Meet Amid Power Struggle
    May24

    Ukrainian Church Leaders Meet Amid Power Struggle

    Top figures in Ukraine’s new Orthodox Church are meeting in a synod amid an apparent power struggle between Patriarch Filaret, an early vocal supporter of the independent Ukrainian church, and the new church’s elected head, Metropolitan Epifaniy. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Ukraine’s PrivatBank Sues Billiionare Kolomoisky In U.S. Court
    May24

    Ukraine’s PrivatBank Sues Billiionare Kolomoisky In U.S. Court

    PrivatBank filed the lawsuit against Ihor Kolomoyskiy and Hennadiy Bogolyubov, one day after Ukraine’s newly elected president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, was sworn into office. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Zelensky Era
    May23

    Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Zelensky Era

    If Moscow felt a warm sense of schadenfreude at the electoral trouncing of Ukraine’s incumbent President Poroshenko in the second round of the April 21 presidential elections, celebrations were outwardly subdued. Largely absent was the open, vindictive gloating that had accompanied Viktor Yushchenko’s record-breaking humiliation in...