Top weekend news
- Police beat and arrested almost 1,400 protesters in Moscow on Saturday, trying to break up a pro-opposition rally. The demonstrators were protesting Moscow’s election commissions refusing to register opposition candidates for local elections.
- A top investigator accused the Prosecutor General’s Office leadership of dragging its feet on serving criminal charges to judges alleged to be violating the law.
- The outgoing EU ambassador called for Ukraine to do more to implement rule of law and improve its anti-corruption bodies.
- Western commentators congratulated Ukraine on a free and fair election and are waiting to see whether the president’s Servant of the People Party will enact the changes that it promised..
- Ukrainian sailors came to the U.S. to learn to operate cutters, the fast patrol boats that the U.S. gifted to the Ukrainian Navy last year.
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- Orthodox Christians celebrated the 1031st anniversary of the Christianization of the Kyivan Rus over the weekend.
- Photos from Moscow show the scale of Saturday’s protests and police crackdown.
- Three Kyiv markets are offering homegrown produce.
