Section: News & Summaries
The Disastrous EU Summit on the European Partnership
The European Union’s Summit on the Eastern Partnership, held May 21-22 in Riga, was a disaster for Ukraine. For friends of democracy, the rule of law, and Ukraine, it would have been better had this EU summit never taken place and its joint declaration never written. …read more Source: Atlantic...
Ukraine Is Still Caught between a Hammer and an Anvil
For most of the 20th century, Ukraine was the victim of two equally malevolent empires—Germany and Russia. Germany’s contribution to Ukraine’s devastation was the two World Wars; Russia’s was the imposition of Soviet rule and the concomitant destruction of Ukraine’s peasantry and elites. Unsurprisingly, one of the most...
Kremlin Lays Hands on Faith in Crimea
In Russia this April, a Baptist pastor was jailed for professing his faith. Pavel Pilipchuk’s five-day detention was brief, but excessive. It followed his refusal to pay a heavy fine for organizing street evangelism in the city of Oryol, around 200 miles south of Moscow. By not informing city officials of his plans, a local court ruled the...
Brides for sale – new form of trafficking?
Each year, dozens of women from the poorer corners of eastern Europe are lured to travel to western Europe for sham marriages. ||| London – Klara Balogova was 18, penniless and heavily pregnant when she rode thousands of miles from Slovakia to England to marry a man she had never met.She knew he did not want her, or her child. He wanted her...
Ukraine gunman kills two, takes hostages
A gunman was holding two people hostage at a petrol station in northeast Ukraine after killing two others, the interior ministry said. ||| Kiev – A gunman was holding two people hostage at a petrol station in northeast Ukraine on Monday after killing two others, the interior ministry said. The 48-year-old man opened fire with a rifle,...
Shelling halts Ukraine coke plant
Ukraine steelmaker Metinvest said on Sunday it had halted production at its Avdiyivka facility in eastern Ukraine due to heavy shelling. ||| Kiev – Ukraine steelmaker Metinvest said on Sunday it had halted production at its Avdiyivka facility in eastern Ukraine, one of Europe’s biggest coke plants, after heavy shelling caused major...
Shelling halts work at east Ukraine coke plant
Kiev – Ukraine steelmaker Metinvest said on Sunday it has halted production at its Avdiyivka facility in eastern Ukraine, one of Europe’s biggest coke plants, after heavy shelling caused major damage. ||| Kiev – Ukraine steelmaker Metinvest said on Sunday it has halted production at its Avdiyivka facility in eastern Ukraine, one...
Woman (65), mother of 13, has quadruplets
A 65-year-old German woman, who is already has 13 children, has given birth to quadruplets after undergoing an artificial insemination procedure in Ukraine, RTL television reported early on Saturday. …read more Source:...
Ukraine told about its European choice on the Eastern Partnership summit in Riga
The Eastern Partnership summit in Riga (Latvia) was held on May 21-22 between the leaders of 28 EU countries and their counterparts from Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Belarus. It showed the European choice made by Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova, according to the Joint Declaration of the Eastern Partnership Summit (Riga, 21-22...
The center in Kyiv “America House” is a symbol of US commitment to Ukrainians
As reports the US Embassy in Ukraine, the U.S. government opened a free center in Kyiv, called America House, that is a resource for American culture, education, and information. U/S @stengel: America House both symbol and reality of US commitment to people of Ukraine https://t.co/5p88TkKKBy pic.twitter.com/H23Tip5BMs — Geoffrey Pyatt...