Ukraine
Ukrainian women protest flu panic wearing only surgical masks
November 10, 2009By Luke Allnutt A Ukrainian women's group, FEMEN, took to the streets of Kyiv on November 9 to protest what they see as swine-flu hysteria. The group is accusing politicians of using the outbreak to create fear ahead of the country's January 17 presidential...
- Swine Flu follies: Reactions and overreactions to virus's spread
November 10, 2009As the swine-flu virus continues to spread through the Balkans and the former Soviet Union, the measures taken by some governments range from bizarre and befuddled to possibly political. Moldova: Add Politics And Stir In Moldova, which has 269 confirmed...
- Ukraine: Swine Flu mania in Kyiv
November 03, 2009By Irene Chalupa Upon landing at Kyiv’s Boryspil airport on Sunday afternoon, I was met by Ukrainian passport-control personnel in surgical masks. I suddenly noticed that a number of people on line were also wearing masks of various sizes...
- Swine Flu: Ukrainian hospitals to distribute Tamiflu for free
November 03, 2009Ukrainian hospitals will start distributing Tamiflu among the population this week in an effort to help people who have the flu, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. The medicine -- which is known to be effective against swine flu -- was flown to Ukraine...
Moldova: 7 years jail time for human trafficking
October 31, 2009Alexandr Plohotniuc, a 28-year-old man from Republic of Moldova, was condemned by a Chisinau Law Court to seven years’ imprisonment. He was accused by prosecutors of human trafficking. According to prosecutors, Alexandr Plohotniuc went to Ungheni...
- Moldova: Strangers In Their Own Land
August 20, 2009By Natalia Morari A friend of my husband's decided to send her daughter, Nastya, to a preschool. According to her, she and her family speak only Russian and know virtually no Romanian. I'm not saying whether that is right or not, but just reporting...
- No End Of Frozen Conflict In Moldova's Transdniester
August 18, 2009By Gregory Feifer Forlorn concrete apartment blocks greet visitors just across the heavily guarded border of this lush sliver of land along the Dniester River. Elderly men push baby carriages through the half-abandoned streets: it's mostly the very...
US Prosecutors Charge Three In Largest Identity Theft In History
August 18, 2009Officials in the United States have charged a 28-year-old American man and two foreign accomplices -- identified as "having resided in or near Russia" -- with data theft from an estimated 130 million credit and debit cards. That makes it the...
No Ukrainian language school in Russia for about 2M Ukrainians
August 17, 2009By Paul Goble Ukraine Has Nearly 3,000 Russian-Language Schools, but Russia Doesn’t Have Even a Single Ukrainian-Language One Despite Moscow’s frequent charges and complaints, Kyiv pays for the operation of nearly 3,000 Russian...
Why Some Russians are Ready to Acquire Ukrainian Citizenship
August 08, 2009Eight Reasons Why Some Russians are More than Ready to Acquire Ukrainian Citizenship By Paul Goble Patriarch Kirill’s suggestion that he is ready to acquire dual citizenship in Ukraine has prompted activists of the Russian National...