Ukraine
No substitute for firsthand experience
July 28, 2010by Michael Holtz A Moldovan journalist I met joked that three days in his country was only long enough to understand the wine. I’d argue it’s only long enough to find a reason to stay longer. Moldova earned a spot in the American news stream...
Ukrainian nationalists protest Russian Patriarch's visit
July 27, 2010Ukrainian police have detained several nationalists for protesting a visit to Kyiv by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill. The members of Ukraine's nationalist Svoboda (Freedom) movement were arrested Monday as they rallied near...
Moscow Patriarch’s visit to Ukraine proving counterproductive
July 26, 2010by Paul Goble Patriarch Kirill’s current visit to Ukraine is having the opposite effect he intends. Instead of generating pressure for an end to the independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the Russian church leader’s latest visit is in fact...
Ukrainian nationalism again under attack in Ukraine
July 21, 2010by Taras Kuzio Belarus and Ukraine are the only two post-communist countries where the ruling authorities see the nationalism of their countrymen as something to be denounced and combated. Viktor Yanukovych, is the first of four Ukrainian presidents...
Search continues for missing Ukraine miners after deadly accident
June 11, 2010DONETSK, Ukraine -- Rescue groups are continuing to search for two miners missing after a deadly accident at the Skochinsky mine near Donetsk, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. Three miners died as a result of the sudden release of a mixture of coal...
Christians celebrate Easter from the Balkans to the Caucasus (video)
April 02, 2010From the Balkans to the Caucasus, Christians in RFE/RL's broadcast region are celebrating Easter with local customs as well as traditions that have spread across the Christian world. The art of pysanka, decorating eggs with melted colored wax, is a part...
Ukraine PM Yulia Tymoshenko withdraws election complaint
February 21, 2010Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a losing candidate in the recent presidential election, has withdrawn her legal challenge from the court where she went to claim that voting results were rigged. The decision clears the way for opposition leader...
When 'Old Europe' means really, really old (Cucuteni culture)
January 04, 2010How do traces of a civilization with no written language and no documented history survive? In the case of the ancient societies that populated Eastern and Southeastern Europe in the period between 5000-4000 B.C., the challenge has proved especially...
Life expectancy figures failing to recover in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus
January 04, 2010By Paul Goble Most post-communist countries experienced major declines in life expectancy figures during the 1990s, but only the three Slavic countries – Russia, Ukraine and Belarus – have not seen a significant recovery in those figures...
What to do with President Medvedev’s European Security Treaty?
December 18, 2009By Michael Emerson We reproduced in our last issue the text of the draft European Security Treaty published on the Kremlin’s website of 1 December. The text is dressed up in smart legal language. The legal department of the Russian Ministry of...