Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)
Russian POW Video Raises War Crime Questions For Ukraine
Did Kyiv violate the Geneva Conventions by releasing an interrogation video of an alleged Russian soldier captured fighting alongside separatists in eastern Ukraine? …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Takes Step Toward Debt-Payment Freeze
Ukraine’s cash-starved government says it has asked parliament to approve a law granting the cabinet “the right, if necessary, to stop payments to foreign debt holders.” …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The Daily Vertical: The Strange Endgame In Donbas
The Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that appears Monday through Friday. Viewers can suggest topics via Twitter @PowerVertical or on the Power Vertical Facebook pag …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
U.S. Diplomats Discuss Ukraine, Syria In Moscow
Two top American diplomats were in Moscow May 18 for top-level talks for the first time in months on two crises bedeviling global affairs — Ukraine and Syria. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Brussels Says Russia Drops Opposition To EU-Ukraine Trade Deal Starting 2016
The European Union says Russia has dropped its demands for a further delay in a landmark EU-Ukraine trade deal and accepts that it will now begin next year. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Nuland Says Minsk Being Violated ‘Daily’
A senior U.S. diplomat says a cease-fire deal in eastern Ukraine “is being violated on a daily basis.” …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Two Ukrainian Soldiers Killed In Fighting
Ukraine’s military says two of its servicemen have been killed and four others wounded in separatist attacks in the country’s east. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Crimean Tatars Mark Anniversary Of Deportations
Crimean Tatars in Ukraine are marking the 71st anniversary of a mass deportation, ordered by Soviet leader Josef Stalin, which displaced around 200,000 people and cost many thousands of lives. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Marks Anniversary of Crimean Tatar Deportations
Events are being held in Ukraine to mark the 71st anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars. Around 180,000 Tatars were deported to Central Asia by Stalin in 1944. Many returned in the 1980s and 1990s, but have complained of discrimination and abuses since Russia illegally annexed Crimea last year. At an event in Kyiv on May 17, people...
Ukraine Claims Capture Of Russian Soldiers
The Ukrainian military claimed to have captured two Russian soldiers fighting alongside pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
