Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)
Saakashvili Hits Ground Running In Odesa
Odesa’s freshly appointed governor, Mikheil Saakashvili, is tackling his new job head on. The former Georgian president is touring markets, boarding trams, rubbing shoulders with locals, and pledging to restore order in the Ukrainian city. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
EU Agrees To Extend Sanctions On Russia
Meeting in Brussels, European Union ambassadors have agreed to extend economic sanctions on Russia by another six months to the end of January 2016, and prolong an investment ban on Crimea for another year. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
French, German, Ukrainian, Russian FMs To Meet In Paris Next Week
Paris says the foreign ministers of France, Germany, Ukraine, and Russia are set to hold talks on June 23 over the crisis in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukrainian Activists Stage Toilet Protest
Activists showed what they think of Ukraine’s anti-corruption efforts – by bringing a giant toilet to the Ukrainian parliament building on June 17. They criticized a bill going through parliament, saying it would make the special anti-corruption prosecutor’s office accountable to the president rather than truly independent....
Saakashvili Gets Down To Business In Odesa
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has begun his new role as the governor of Ukraine’s Odesa region, where he has pledged to modernize institutions and root out corruption. RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service followed Saakashvili as he met with Odesa residents and introduced his newly appointed chief of police, Gia Lortkipanidze, a...
New Ukraine Peace Talks Fail To Halt Escalating Clashes
Ukraine on June 16 reported the death of two servicemen as a fresh round of European-mediated talks with pro-Moscow rebels failed to break the deadlock over the future status of its separatist-controlled eastern regions. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russian Journalist Held In East Ukraine
A reporter with a top Moscow opposition newspaper was briefly detained on June 16 in a separatist-held area in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
NATO-Russia Pact Mired In Mistrust Amid Ukraine Fallout
Russia’s continued bullying of Ukraine and a possible U.S. intention to put tanks and heavy weapons back in Eastern Europe appear to signal the demise of the historic NATO-Russia Founding Act that “definitively” ended the Cold War. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
A Look Behind Separatist Lines In Eastern Ukraine
Ukrainian forces repelled an attack by Russia-backed separatists on the town of Maryinka, west of Donetsk, on June 14. One separatist unit on the front lines is known as “The Fifteen,” because its fighters come from across the 15 post-Soviet states. After the latest clashes, RFE/RL’s Current Time TV followed the militants as...
Fighting The Long War
Welcome to the new normal. After more than a year of conflict in Ukraine, the standoff between Russia and the West has become routine — and it is becoming institutionalized. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
