Ukraine
The State
Security Service (SBU), Ukraine’s KGB-successor agency, is investigating an
unspecified number of unnamed politicians for “attempting to seize state power,”
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Dec. 8, 2013
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has called on the
Ukrainian government to keep seeking ways to compensate former Ukrainian
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko for the violation of her
Dec. 6, 2013
Whether in their blue urban camouflage or pitch-black uniforms, their faces masked or unmasked beneath large black helmets, their presence can be intimidating.
Dec. 5, 2013
Seventy-nine people were injured during the events on Kyiv’s Independence Square on November 30, Ukrainian Deputy Prosecutor General Anatoliy Pryshko said.
Dec. 5, 2013
In its 2013 Corruption Perceptions Index
released today, Transparancy International slammed Ukraine, calling the country
the most corrupt nation in Europe and the fifth most corrupt in the
Commonwealt
Dec. 3, 2013
Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers on Dec. 2 survived a chaotic parliament and a no-confidence vote initiated by opposition parties in parliament as thousands of pro-European supporters of the government’
Dec. 3, 2013
STATEMENT BY SENATOR JOHN McCAIN ON DEMONSTRATIONS IN UKRAINE
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) today released the following statement on the public demonstrations in Ukraine:
Dec. 3, 2013
Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov says that the situation around the protest rallies in Kyiv resembles a coup.
Dec. 2, 2013
After President Viktor Yanukovych expressed outrage over excessive
police force being used to disperse protesters on Nov.30, sending dozens to the
hospital, his younger son, Party of Regions lawmaker
Dec. 2, 2013
Law enforcement officers have established that more than 300 members of the Bratstvo (Brotherhood) organization were involved in unlawful actions committed outside the building of Ukraine’s Presiden
Dec. 2, 2013
When baton-wielding riot police outside the presidential offices began to charge, Denys Danko held up the only shield he knows — his journalist’s identification card.
Dec. 2, 2013
Editor’s Note: The Kyiv Post is providing continuous coverage of the protests in Kyiv and other cities following the government’s decision on Nov. 21 to stop European Union integration and end pursuit
Dec. 2, 2013
When hundreds of riot police forces rushed on protesters at Bankova Street around 5 p.m. on Dec. 1, Serhiy Pantiuk, secretary of the Writers Union, took a dozen women inside the Union’s building at 2
Dec. 1, 2013
At least two riot police officers were injured while protecting the Lenin monument on Shevchenko Blvd. in Kyiv around 8:45 p.m. on Dec. 1 when more than 300 radical protesters attacked them.
Dec. 1, 2013
The Interior Ministry said they identified at some of the instigators of clashes that took place in front of the president’s administration and other government buildings, the ministry said in a stat
Dec. 1, 2013
About a hundred policemen sustained injuries as a result of attacks by the protesters, according to the city police. They are not reporting the numbers of injured protesters, but eyewitness, photo an
Dec. 1, 2013