Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)
Ukrainian Police Search Kharkiv Mayor’s Residence
Ukrainian media reports say police are searching the residence of the mayor of the northeastern city of Kharkiv. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Clinton Meeting With Poroshenko To Contrast With Trump’s Putin Embrace
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will meet with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, contrasting her pro-Kyiv stance with her Republican opponent Donald Trump’s embrace of Russia, her campaign said on September 14. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
IMF Approves $1 Billion Loan For Ukraine After One-Year Delay
The International Monetary Fund on September 14 approved a loan disbursement for Ukraine of $1 billion after a delay of more than a year that reflected concern about corruption and stability in the war-torn nation. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
German, French Ministers In Ukraine To Revive Peace Deal
The German and French foreign ministers are in Ukraine to shore up a 2015 peace deal amid continuing fighting between government forces and separatists in the country’s east. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Protests At German, French Embassies In Kyiv
Protestors picketed the German and French embassies in Kyiv, as the two countries’ foreign ministers arrived in Ukraine to try to revive peace talks with Russia-backed separatists. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Prosecutor Cites ‘Criminal Probe’ Into Ukraine’s Top Cop
Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Yuriy Lutsenko has announced that his office has opened a criminal probe of Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, raising the specter of another public blow to a fractious ruling coalition. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Crimean Tatar Leader Nominated For EU’s Sakharov Prize
The European Parliament’s largest political bloc will nominate Crimean Tatar politician Mustafa Dzhemilev for the 2016 Sakharov Prize. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Sixty-Year-Old Ukrainian Volleyballer Returns To Paralympics
Ukraine has sent its largest-ever contingent of athletes to the Paralympic Games. With 155 Paralympians competing in 14 different disciplines in Rio de Janeiro, Ukraine hopes it can top its fourth-place finish at the 2012 London Paralympics. At age 60, Petro Ostrynskiy is his country’s oldest Paralympian. Before heading to Rio, he and...
The Morning Vertical, September 14, 2016
Your daily roundup. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Activists Say Crimeans Face Threats, Intimidation Ahead Of Russian Vote
Rights groups say the Russian-imposed authorities in Crimea are using threats and intimidation to get out the vote in parliamentary elections that Ukraine has denounced as illegitimate because they are being held on territory seized by Moscow. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
