Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)
Ukraine’s Radical Party Quits Government In Protest Over Decentralization Bill
The leader of Ukraine’s Radical Party, Oleh Lyashko, has announced his party is quitting the coalition government. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia Expels Ukrainian Diplomat
Russia’s Foreign Ministry says Moscow has expelled an Ukrainian diplomat in retaliation for Kyiv’s expulsion of a Russian diplomat. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Second Ukrainian National Guardsman Dies After Kyiv Clashes
A second member of Ukraine’s National Guard has died from injuries following clashes outside parliament. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Prosecutors Seek Three Years In Jail For Russians In Pro-Ukraine Stunt
Prosecutors have asked a Moscow court to sentence five Russians to three years in jail each over a stunt in which a Soviet star atop a Stalin-era skyscraper was painted in the yellow-and-blue colors of the Ukrainian flag. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
World Powers Condemn Violence, Urge Ukraine To Affirm Reforms
World powers condemned the violence outside Ukraine’s parliament August 31 and urged legislators to keep up their work decentralizing the government through measures that carry out the Minsk peace accord. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Suspected Grenade Thrower In Kyiv Caught On Camera
A man throwing what appeared to be a grenade during a protest in Kyiv was caught on video by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty cameras. The violence erupted after parliament approved a draft constitutional amendment granting more autonomy to the eastern Ukrainian regions. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe...
Ukraine Protestors Clash With Security Forces
Ukrainian nationalists clashed with security personnel outside parliament in Kyiv as MPs backed controversial legislation granting more autonomy to pro-Russian rebels in the east of the country. Video shows tension before a National Guard soldier was killed by a grenade. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Putin Pumps Iron, Internet Delivers Punch Lines
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev spent their Sunday on a thoroughly photographed man-date. Whatever the official goal might have been, the photo shoot sparked a wave of Internet memes. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Grenade Explodes Outside Ukraine Parliament
At least one Ukrainian National Guard soldier was killed in clashes with demonstrators after grenade explodes outside parliament in Kyiv. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Foreign Ministers To Discuss Ukraine Conflict
The Kremlin says foreign ministers of Russia, Ukraine, Germany, and France will meet by the middle of September to discuss the conflict in Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
