Sep. 23, 2019
Talks of impeachment are again echoing through Washington. On Sept. 22, U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed that he had discussed his political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, in a July phon
Apr. 16, 2019
Ukrainian lawmaker Nadiya Savchenko and her co-suspect Volodymyr Ruban, who both face charges of plotting an act of terrorism, were released from temporary detention late on April 15 under a ruling by
Feb. 22, 2019
Editor’s Note: Election Watch is a regular update on the state of the presidential race in Ukraine. The country will elect its next president on March 31, 2019, with a possible runoff on April 21. The
Jan. 18, 2019
The Gulag, the system of concentration camps through which the Soviet Union carried out murderous political repression, is something many Russians and Ukrainians would rather forget. But while the reg
Nov. 28, 2018
The Coast Guard of the Russian Federal Security Service attacked and seized three Ukrainian Navy boats on Nov. 25 after the Ukrainian vessels tried to go from the Black Sea into the Azov Sea through t
Oct. 17, 2018
At least 20 people were killed and 35 more injured in an explosion and shooting on Oct. 17 at a polytechnic college in Kerch, a city of 146,000 people in Crimea, the Ukrainian territory that Russia ha
Jun. 15, 2018
As the FIFA World Cup football competition begins in Russia, internationally acclaimed U.S. horror writer Stephen King has joined the list of famous people urging Russia to release the Ukrainian filmm
Jun. 15, 2018
Russia’s war against Ukraine, having already killed more than 10,000 on land over the past four years, may soon shift to the sea. Experts say that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s opening of the Cri
May. 11, 2018
Reforming Ukraine’s State Security Service, better known as SBU, was top of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s to-do list when he took office in May 2014. It was one of his main campaign pledges:
Apr. 24, 2018
Dzmitry Halko, a Belarusian-Ukrainian journalist, was arrested by Belarusian authorities when crossing the border into Belarus from the Ukrainian city of Lviv and faces jail in Belarus, his Ukrainian
Mar. 30, 2018
ODESA, Ukraine — Adnan Kivan first read the Kyiv Post “a long time ago,” usually on commercial flights that stocked Ukraine’s English-language newspaper. But he took no special interest in it — let al
Sep. 29, 2017
See also: Activists say SBU is top human rights violator See also: SBU officials boast extravagant wealth, but refuse to declare it Since Russia launched its war against Ukraine in 2014, the Security
Apr. 30, 2017
One of the world’s top actresses, Meryl Streep, has called for the freeing of Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian filmmaker sentenced to 20 years in jail after being subjected to a sham trial in Russia. The U.S
Apr. 3, 2017
Name: Emil Kurbedinov Position: Private lawyer Key Point: Helping Crimean Tatars fight persecution Crimean Tatar Emil Kurbedinov, a 35-year-old lawyer, has defended several prominent Crimean Tatar act
Mar. 23, 2017
Exiled Russian lawmaker Denis Voronenkov, 45, was assassinated in front of Kyiv’s Premier Palace Hotel on March 23, the police said, in a gruesome shootout on a busy street corner in the center in Kyi
Feb. 15, 2017
International Energy Group Burisma has expanded its Board of Directors to include an expert in the field of security and strategic development. Joseph Cofer Black, a former Director of the CIA’s Count
Apr. 26, 2016
With the current Russian leadership “simply on a different frequency from the vast majority of the Western world,” Czech Gen. Petr Pavel remains a true believer in the need for a strong NATO alliance.
Jun. 30, 2015
KURAKHOVE, Ukraine – Only 10 miles west of the war front, the Ukrainian army controls the small city of Kurakhove and patrols the streets to look for suspicious people
Jun. 28, 2015
Video footage appears to show Vitaly Malikov, a deputy chief of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), supporting Kremlin-backed separatists in Crimea and a referendum on the peninsula’s secession fro
May. 14, 2015
The leader of the Right Sector party, Dmytro Yarosh, who is an independent member of parliament, has put a draft law before the legislature that would underlie setting up a “Ukrainian Volunteer Corps.