Ukraine
When 'Old Europe' means really, really old (Cucuteni culture)
How 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
By 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?
By 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...
3 arrested in Ukraine for offering to sell radioactive material
Police in Ukraine's western province of Lviv arrested three people this week for attempting to sell radioactive material, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) spokeswoman Marina Ostapenko told RFE/RL that the suspects...
Ukrainian women protest flu panic wearing only surgical masks
By 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
As 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
By 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
Ukrainian 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
Alexandr 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
By 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...
