Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)
Watchdog: Freedom Of Speech In Ukraine Deteriorates
Ukraine saw an increase in freedom of speech violations in 2019, local media watchdog Institute of Mass Information (IMI) said in a yearly report. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine’s Other Nuclear Ghost Town
Pictures of Pripyat, the abandoned town near Chernobyl, are world famous — but Ukraine has another nuclear ghost town. Orbita was built for workers at the Chigirinsky nuclear plant. The workers moved in, but the plant was never finished, and Orbita is now a crumbling ruin with just 100 inhabitants. …read more Source:: Radio Free...
Zelenskiy, Merkel Discuss Situation In Donbas, Plane Crash In Iran
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have discussed the situation in Ukraine’s east, where Russia-backed separatists continue to control some part of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Court In Russia-Occupied Crimea Expunges Journalist Semena’s Criminal Record
A court in Ukraine’s Russia-controlled Crimea region has ruled to prematurely terminate the probation period and expunge the criminal record of Mykola Semena, an RFE/RL contributor who was convicted of separatism on the peninsula. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Released By Separatists, RFE/RL Journalists Describe Imprisonment In Eastern Ukraine
Stanislav Aseyev and Oleh Halazyuk, two contributors to RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service, were among the civilians released by Russia-backed separatists in a prisoner swap on December 29, 2019. Both had been held for more than two years. Shortly after their release, the two journalists told RFE/RL about the conditions of their imprisonment and...
Border Guards: Fewer Ukrainians Traveled To Russia In 2019
Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service (DPSU) says passenger traffic at the Russian-Ukrainian border in 2019 decreased by 10 percent to 10 million people in comparison to the previous year. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
‘The Magical Powers Of The Con’: For Many, Moscow’s Defense Of Iran Is Redolent Of Its Denial Over MH17
As the world reeled from the downing of Ukrainian Airlines Flight PS752 from the skies over Iran and Tehran’s belated admission that its own forces were responsible, Russia sought to muddy the waters around the tragedy in a way some observers compared with its obfuscation campaign following the July 2014 crash of a commercial airliner over...
Ukraine’s Security Service Says Not Aware Of Entry Ban For Sweden’s Dr. Alban
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) has said it wasn’t privy to information that Swedish recording artist Alban Nwapa was banned from entering Ukraine after he performed in Russian-annexed Crimea. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Knew Initially Rocket Shot Down Ukrainian Plane Over Iran
Ukraine knew on a preliminary basis that Iran shot down Ukrainian Airlines Flight PS752 on January 8, the same day as the incident, but decided not to go public with the information because it wanted to get access to the crash site. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Seeks To Shrink Underground Economy, Takes On Illegal Gambling, Other Sectors
Ukraine is cracking down on illegal gambling and logging and fraudulent gas stations in a bid to reduce the size of the country’s shadow economy. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
