Section: San Francisco Chronicle (USA)
Russian Orthodox reach Kiev monastery despite threats
The procession by Ukrainian adherents of Russian Orthodoxy was prevented from entering Kiev on Tuesday after Ukraine’s interior minister said grenades had been planted along the route. Relations between Russia and Ukraine, which share linguistic and cultural ties dating back hundreds of years, soured in 2014 after Russia annexed the Crimean...
Ukraine’s Georgian corruption fighter sets his sights higher
Saakashvili passionately described plans for European-style reforms, including restructuring the police force and customs service, which he said will determine the future not only of Ukraine but of the entire post-Soviet region. In an example of the corruption Saakashvili is trying to fight, Estonian businessman Marcel Vichmann was forced to stop...
Journalist who died in Ukraine car bombing buried in Belarus
Sheremet, who once was imprisoned in Belarus, where independent media are under consistent pressure from the authoritarian government, had moved to Ukraine two years ago after several years in Russia, seeing Ukraine as having a more free media environment. Hundreds of mourners attended his Saturday funeral at a Minsk church, a day after hundreds...
Call for reconciliation over Ukraine conflict falls flat
MOSCOW (AP) — Nadiya Savchenko, the military pilot who became a national hero when she was jailed in Russia, faced a backlash Friday for saying reconciliation was the only solution to conflict in eastern Ukraine. Speaking on Ukraine’s Channel 5, Savchenko said late Thursday that Ukrainians “need to ask for forgiveness” or there...
Hundreds come to bid farewell to slain journalist in Ukraine
Hundreds come to bid farewell to slain journalist in Ukraine MOSCOW (AP) — Hundreds of local residents and journalists have come to pay their respects to a prominent journalist who died in a car bombing in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev earlier this week. …read more Source: San Francisco...
Report suggests torture widespread in war-torn Ukraine
The joint report released on Thursday by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch says both the Ukrainian government and Russia-backed separatists have committed enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions and torture of civilians. …read more Source: San Francisco...
Prominent journalist killed in car bombing in Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) — A prominent journalist has been killed in a car bombing in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev. The country’s top online publication Ukrainska Pravda said on Wednesday its top journalist Pavel Sheremet died in an explosion as he got into his car to drive to work in the morning. The publication said the car was owned by its...
Women in Russia, Ukraine unite online against sex abuse
Hundreds of personal stories of sexual violence and harassment are appearing on social media in Russia and Ukraine, after a post by Ukrainian journalist Nastya Melnychenko became an internet sensation. In a region where any discussion of sexual and domestic violence is often taboo, the widespread reaction triggered by the Melnychenko posting has...
The Latest: American student confirmed among Nice dead
The other program participants still unaccounted for are 22-year-old Canada-based Ukrainian national Misha Bazelevsky and 21-year-old Estonian Rickard Kruusberg, Annie Seneard, a communication officer at the Nice branch of the academy, told the Associated Press. Benzamia noted that relatives of Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhiel, the Tunisian-born truck...
Russian images of Malaysia Flight 17 were altered, report finds
MOSCOW — A group of arms control researchers have determined that two images released by the Russian government, ostensibly to help clarify why a civilian airliner was shot down two years ago, were digitally altered using Photoshop before being posted online. The finding is hardly the first to debunk important elements of the Russian...
