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In Ukraine, Children’s Book Featuring Lesbian Parents Met With Threats, Fears Of Violence
A children’s book featuring a story about a girl and her two mothers struck a nerve among some Ukrainians, leading its presentation at a Kyiv book fair to be canceled over fears of violence. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
In Ukraine, Children’s Book Featuring Lesbian Parents Met With Threats, Fears Of Violence
A children’s book featuring a story about a girl and her two mothers struck a nerve among some Ukrainians, leading its presentation at a Kyiv book fair to be canceled over fears of violence. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
EU Renews Russia Sanctions, Keeps Ban On New U.S. Envoy Antonov
The European Union has prolonged its asset freezes and travel bans on Russian officials and Moscow-backed separatists in Ukraine for another six months, with Russia’s new ambassador to the United States likely to remain on the list, diplomats said. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russian-Israeli Blogger Leaves Azerbaijan After Presidential Pardon
A Russian-Israeli blogger who was jailed in Baku for traveling to Azerbaijan’s breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region has left Baku on a flight to Israeli, three days after receiving a pardon from President Ilham Aliyev. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Poland Drops Passport Plan That Angered Ukraine, Lithuania
Poland’s government says it is abandoning a plan to include images in Polish passports of landmarks that are now within the borders of Ukraine and Lithuania. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Crimean Tatar Leader Sentenced To Eight Years In Prison
A court in Ukraine’s Russian-controlled Crimea region has sentenced a prominent Crimean Tatar leader, Akhtem Chiygoz, to eight years in prison. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Saakashvili Supporters Force Entry Into Ukraine
Supporters of Mikheil Saakashvili, the former Georgian president and ex-governor of Ukraine’s Odesa Oblast, managed to get him through a Polish-Ukrainian border crossing near the village of Shehyni in Ukraine late on September 10. Ukrainian authorities had previously stopped him from entering the country by train earlier that day. RFE/RL...
Ukrainian Authorities Bracing Themselves For The Return Of Saakashvili
Ukrainian police are bracing themselves at checkpoints on the border with Poland for the expected arrival of Mikhail Saakashvili, the ex-president of Georgia and former governor of Ukraine’s Odesa region. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
New Russian Ambassador To U.S. Says Ready To Improve Relations
Russia’s new ambassador to the United States, arriving at a time of heightened tensions between the two countries, says Moscow is ready to take “concrete” steps to improve ties with the United States. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Kyiv Car Bomb Kills Man In Suspected Targeted Attack
A bomb has exploded in a car in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, killing one man and injuring two other people in what police suspect is the fourth targeted car bombing in just over a year. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
