Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)
Ukraine’s Parliament Restores Anti-Corruption Legislation Annulled By Highest Court
Ukraine’s parliament voted on December 4 to reimpose penalties for officials who provide false information about their incomes, defying an earlier ruling from the nation’s highest court. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Singing Off-Key? Kyiv, Budapest Clash Over Rights Of Ethnic Hungarians In Ukraine
The singing of the Hungarian national anthem at a town council in a small village in western Ukraine has stoked fresh tensions between Kyiv and Budapest, largely over the treatment of ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Claims Of ‘Intimidation,’ ‘Disrespect,’ As Ukraine And Hungary Clash Over Ethnic Minority
Ethnic Hungarian councilors sing the Hungarian national anthem, and the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) raids the offices of ethnic Hungarian charities, causing tension between Kyiv and Budapest. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
A Ukrainian Village Reels Amid COVID-19 Onslaught
Many residents of the village of Nekhaivka in northern Ukraine’s Chernihiv region show COVID-19 symptoms but some say they can’t get tested or treated. Their local doctor has died, apparently from the disease, leaving only a paramedic and two nurses in the local clinic. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Lives On The Line: Ukraine Mental-Health Call Center Seeks To Lower The Human Cost Of War
As the war against separatists in eastern Ukraine simmers on, efforts to address its psychological effects are under way, with critics saying the state’s response has been slow. At a mental-health hotline in Kyiv, operators handle harrowing calls from veterans struggling with life after combat. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe /...
Dutch Court Rejects Request To Investigate Alternative MH17 Crash Scenarios
A court in the Netherlands hearing the case against four defendants in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) over eastern Ukraine has rejected a defense request for more time to investigate alternative explanations for the crash that killed 298 people aboard. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
A Tarnished Gem? Building Bad On Ukraine’s Black Sea Coast
Activists in Odesa who charge that illegal construction threatens to ruin the storied Black Sea port city have had some small victories – but face an uphill battle against an array of opponents whose arsenal is strong. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
North Macedonia, Montenegro, Ukraine Joining EU Sanctions Against Belarus
Seven European countries that are not members of the EU have aligned themselves with the sanctions imposed by the 27-member bloc on Belarus in response to a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests triggered by a disputed presidential election in August. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Nuclear Fuel From Chernobyl Reactors Loaded For Longer-Term Storage
The first canister of spent nuclear fuel from the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine was loaded on November 18 into a new, more modern storage site. The Interim Storage Facility 2 (ISF-2) is inside the exclusion zone around the reactor that exploded in 1986. One double-walled canister contains a total of 93 spent fuel assemblies from three...
Coronavirus-Related Deaths In Ukraine ‘Exceed 10,000’
Ukraine registered a record 256 new COVID-19 related deaths in the past 24 hours. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
