Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)
Anticorruption Protests Continue In Ukraine As Lawmakers Consider Reforms
Ukrainian lawmakers were set to debate reforms as protesters camped outside parliament for a third day demanding the government clamp down on corruption. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Passes Long-Delayed Health Reforms Sought By West
Lawmakers in Ukraine have approved a long-awaited law reforming the health-care system replacing broken-down Soviet-era arrangements with a Western-style, tax-funded healthcare insurance system. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Baku’s Interpol Alert Silences Opposition Journalist Abroad
The arrest in Ukraine of a self-exiled Azerbaijani opposition journalist renews accusations that Interpol’s global alert system is being abused by authoritarian regimes to intimidate their critics abroad. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Five Killed As SUV Ploughs Into Crowd In Ukraine’s Kharkiv; Extremism Not Suspected
Five people were killed on October 18 when a car ploughed into a crowd of pedestrians in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said in a statement that cited traffic safety violations rather than an extremist plot or terrorist link. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Protesters Remain Camped Outside Ukrainian Parliament
Protesters in Kyiv hunkered down in a tent camp outside the Ukrainian parliament demanding more be done to tackle corruption in the country. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Olympic Gymnast Gutsu Accuses Ex-Teammate Scherbo Of Raping Her In 1991
Former Soviet gymnast Tatiana Gutsu has accused ex-teammate Vitaly Scherbo of raping her in 1991, when she was 15 years old and he was 19. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The Daily Vertical: Playing Make-Believe
The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The Morning Vertical, October 18, 2017
Your daily roundup. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Protesters Block Street Near Ukrainian Parliament With Tents
Ukrainian protesters in Kyiv who are demanding that President Petro Poroshenko enact anticorruption reforms or step down have blocked a main street near parliament with dozens of tents. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukrainian Officials Say Two Soldiers Killed, Four Wounded In East
Ukraine’s military says that two of its soldiers were killed and four were wounded amid multiple cease-fire violations by Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine on October 17. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
