Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)
Berlin Prosecutors Investigate German Journalist Named In Ukraine Arson Attack
Berlin prosecutors are investigating a far-right German journalist who was implicated by a defendant in a Polish court of involvement in the firebombing of a Hungarian cultural center in western Ukraine last year. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
U.S. Law Firm to Pay $4.6 Million In Settlement Over Manafort Ukraine Lobbying
A U.S. law firm has agreed to pay $4.6 million to settle claims by the Department of Justice that it violated lobbying laws by failing to register work it did for Ukraine’s government. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Erdogan’s Wrath Stretches To Ukraine, Leaving Turks In Fear Of Kyiv-Assisted ‘Kidnapping’
Yunus Erdogdu no longer goes outside his Kyiv-area home, terrified at the thought of becoming the next critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to be abducted and forcibly sent to Ankara. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Facebook Removes Hundreds Of Fake Pages, Accounts ‘Linked’ To Russia’s Sputnik
Facebook has removed hundreds of pages, groups, and accounts on its Facebook and Instagram platforms that the U.S. company says were part of two online disinformation operations targeting users across the former Soviet space. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Sea Tragedy Raises Donbas Coal Theft Claims
When a ship sank in the Black Sea with 3,300 tons of coal on board, Kyiv said Moscow was illegally exporting coal from areas of eastern Ukraine held by Russia-backed separatists. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukrainian Parliament Adopts Law On Religious Communities’ Affiliation
The Ukrainian parliament has adopted a bill setting the procedure for changing the affiliation of religious communities in the country. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Detains ‘Pro-Separatist’ Journalist After Deportation From Russia
Authorities in Ukraine say they have detained a journalist accused of undermining the country’s territorial integrity. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Manafort Worked With Russian-Ukrainian On Peace Plan Before — And Long After — Criminal Charges
Konstantin Kilimnik, the alleged Russian intelligence operative who helped run Paul Manafort’s operations in Kyiv for roughly a decade, boasted of the duo’s closeness to RFE/RL in a 2017 interview. “The only guy who Manafort can conceivably talk to in Ukraine is basically me,” he said. …read more Source: Radio Free...
Ukraine’s Avdiyivka Coke Plant Roars Past Prewar Production
After being shelled repeatedly and pushed to the brink of shutdown, the Avdiyivka Coke and Chemical Plant in eastern Ukraine’s war-torn Donetsk region is once again running at full capacity. The factory is one of the largest coke producing plants in Europe and plays a vital role in fueling Ukrainian industry. It now produces purified coal...
U.S. Charges Two Ukrainians In Hack Of U.S. Security Regulator
According to the U.S. criminal complaint, the scheme, which netted $100 million in illegal profits, involved hacking into a database run by the Securities and Exchange Commission, between February 2016 and March 2017. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
