Dec. 28, 2014
Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko’s budget proposal for
2015 was greeted with protests today as demonstrators appealed for the
government to reduce the burden of war in the east and the hryvnia’s deval
Dec. 27, 2014
Unlike many industries that experienced a sharp decline in performance during 2014, Ukraine’s IT sector managed to largely persevere through political and economic turmoil.
Dec. 26, 2014
Crimea was hit by multiple sanctions on Dec. 26 as Visa said has stopped processing cards and Ukrainian companies stopped transport communications and power supplies to the peninsula, which was annexe
Dec. 26, 2014
Editor’s note: This interview with a recruiter of mercenaries was published by <a href="http://www.e1.ru/news/spool/news_id-416966.html">Ekaterinburg Online E1 website</a> and is reprinted with permis
Dec. 24, 2014
Fugitive former President Viktor Yanukovych says that Ukraine’s current leadership’s desire to humiliate Donbas is the real reason for war in Ukraine. Lawlessness and coup in Kyiv outraged Donbass res
Dec. 18, 2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin showed no signs of changing his uncompromising stance on the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine during his 3,5-hour press conference on Dec. 18.
Dec. 18, 2014
After
its trucks began being turned back by Ukrainian forces on Dec. 14 the
foundation of Ukrainian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov has warned of a pending
humanitarian crisis.
Dec. 15, 2014
SHCHASTIA, Ukraine – The Aidar Battalion, a volunteer group of fighters based in the Luhansk Oblast city of Shchastia, brings together men with different biographies, political views and backgrounds.
Dec. 15, 2014
Ukraine’s newly appointed Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicius, 38, clearly signaled his conservative direction during a Dec. 13 interview with the Kyiv Post. “The role of the state in the economy sh
Dec. 15, 2014
Global Energy giant Chevron terminated its contract with Ukraine to extract shale gas in western Ukraine after trying for more than a year to get the government to simplify taxation for this type of
Dec. 11, 2014
LYSYCHANSK, Ukraine – Since Ukraine’s government decided to stop all budget payments to areas controlled by Kremlin-backed insurgents last month, a steady stream of babushkas have been trickling out o
Dec. 11, 2014
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s ambitious reform program to attack corruption and stifling Soviet-era bureaucracy won quick approval in parliament on Dec. 11, with 269 members of parliament — meani
Dec. 11, 2014
A new Kickstarter project aims to fight the Russian president with mockery. The project called “VATNIK: The Putin Voodoo Magnet” aims to raise $5,000 to produce voodoo dolls with Vladimir Putin’s face
Dec. 5, 2014
The video of the first brawl in the newly-elected Verkhovna Rada became a hit, collecting 500,000 views overnight.
Dec. 4, 2014
A representative of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ General Staff has said that Russia deployed Iskander air defense missiles in Crimea.
Dec. 4, 2014
Even though a deadly fighting erupted in Grozny, the capital of Russia’s restive Chechen Republic, overnight in Dec. 4, Russian President Vladimir Putin focus his annual speech to parliament on Ukrain
Dec. 4, 2014
Despite the presence among their ranks of a handful of former journalists, Ukraine’s parliament pressed ahead with the creation of a Ministry of Information, which many consider to be an ill-conceived
Dec. 3, 2014
In one week at the end of October Vadym Troyan went from being the deputy commander of a right-wing volunteer battalion fighting in Ukraine’s east to chief of police for the Kyiv Oblast.
Dec. 2, 2014
Ukraine’s parliament approved the new Cabinet of Ministers at the Dec. 2 evening session. For the first time in history, three portfolios were given to the nationals of Georgia, Lithuania and the U.S.
Dec. 2, 2014
KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — The Ukrainian military has banned journalists from traveling to the front lines in eastern Ukraine unless they travel in special groups escorted by soldiers, the press service
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