Ancient Kyiv Pechersk Lavra to be divided between Ukraine’s rival church factions?
Petition to transfer religious site to Kyiv Patriarchate gathers more than 10,000 signatures
Petition to transfer religious site to Kyiv Patriarchate gathers more than 10,000 signatures
The law on the new national police force signed in September by President Petro Poroshenko came into effect on November 7. The police force is meant to replace the old Soviet-style police throughout the year. (More …)
They had blocked the relaunch of the power line despite Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s assurances that Kyiv would restore power supplies to the peninsula.
Yet Biden arrives in a rustic whose morale is sagging due to Poroshenko’s seeming incapability to erase the corruption that has ravaged Ukraine for a lot of its current historical past.
US Vice President Joe Biden warned Moscow on Tuesday that Western pressure will only harden if Russia’ “aggression” against neighbouring war-scarred Ukraine persists.
U.S. and Russia trade accusations at UN over Ukraine conflict
By Louis Charbonneau
A body believed to be that of Dr. Jay Sloop, a retired Yakima physician who disappeared in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 2013 has been discovered near the park where he was last seen.
Kyiv’s sold out Palace of Sports was the venue for a huge Saturday night of boxing in Ukraine, with Olympic Gold Medalist Oleksandr Usyk’s battle against Cuban Pedro Rodriguez headlining the event. The undercard of K2 Promotions’ glittering event saw two key AIBA Pro Boxing contests starring local talent, with the experienced Middleweight Dmytro Mytrofanov facing Ecuador’s Marlo Delgado and Light Welterweight Vyacheslav Kyslytsyn against Qatar’s Thulasi Tharumalingam in front of more than 7000 spectators.
Fighting corruption is one of Ukraine’s “national security interests”. Failure, he warned, would likely mean the loss of much-needed worldwide support and would have harmful consequences in building a united and democratic Europe. Let me be crystal clear: “The United States does not, has not, never will recognize Russia’s attempt to annex Crimea“, said Biden, addressing members of the Ukrainian Rada Monday before concluding a two-day visit to Ukraine, reported Voice of America.
KYIV (NBC NEWS) — Fighting broke out among members of Ukraine’s ruling coalition in parliament on Friday after a member of President Petro Poroshenko’s bloc physically picked up Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk and pulled him from the podium.