Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)
Poroshenko: Meeting To Form Independent Ukrainian Church Set For December 15
President Petro Poroshenko says senior figures from Orthodox Christian communities in Ukraine will meet on December 15 in a bid to form a new, unified, independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Fugitive Leader Of Kyrgyzstan’s Ethnic Uzbek Community Dies In Ukraine At 62
Relatives of Kadyrjan Batyrov, a fugitive leader of the ethnic Uzbek community in Kyrgyzstan, say Batyrov has died in Ukraine after eight years of self-imposed exile. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Security Agency Blames Attempted Cyberattack On Russia
Ukraine’s security agency said it has thwarted a massive cyberattack and blamed Russia for the attempted attack that targeted the country’s court system. The Security Service of Ukraine said in a statement December 4 that hackers used falsified accounting documents to target computers of the country’s judiciary system. The...
The Former ‘Killing Factory’ For Ukrainian Strays That Became A Sanctuary
Tamara Tarnavska opened the first animal shelter of its kind in Ukraine in 1997. She has since rescued 20,000 dogs and cats from certain death. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Protester’s Life Unchanged, Five Years After Ukraine’s Uprising
Halyna Trofanyuk joined the mass protests in Kyiv known as the Euromaidan, hoping Ukraine would have a prosperous future and closer ties with the European Union. Five years later, she travels to neighboring Poland for work — just as she did before the what Ukrainians call the “Revolution of Dignity.” …read more Source:...
Kyiv Says Russia ‘Partially’ Unblocks Ports On Sea Of Azov
Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan says Russia has “partially” unblocked Ukraine’s sea ports on the Sea of Azov – allowing Ukrainian ships to pass through the Kerch Strait for the first time since November 25. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
‘It’s Like A Big City’ – On Board The World’s Biggest Jumbo
RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service has been granted exclusive access to film on board a flight of the world’s biggest plane – the Antonov An-225 Mriya cargo plane. The plane was built in the 1980s to carry the Soviet space shuttle, Buran. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
NATO Foreign Ministers To Discuss Missile Treaty Impasse, Kerch Confrontation
The Black Sea naval confrontation between Russia and Ukraine and the fate of a major Cold War missile treaty will top the agenda for foreign ministers and diplomats from 29 NATO members meeting in Brussels. Ahead of the December 4 meeting, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg demanded that Russia release Ukrainian sailors and naval vessels it...
Ukrainian Police Search Russian Orthodox Churches, Homes Of Priests
Ukrainian police have searched several Russian Orthodox churches and the homes of Russian Orthodox priests in several cities, amid growing tensions over the fate of Ukraine’s competing Orthodox faiths. The searches occurred in Kyiv and the nearby Zhytomyr region on December 3 and were part of a criminal investigation into inciting hatred...
Ukraine Reiterates Call For ‘Germany, Allies’ To Increase Presence In Black Sea
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has renewed a call for “Germany and the allies” to increase their naval presence in the Black Sea in order to be a “deterring factor” for Russia. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
