Here's another update from our news desk:
Ukraine's parliament voted on April 9 to ban "propaganda of the totalitarian Communist and Nazi regimes," a major rebuke to the country's Soviet-era masters in Moscow and to Russia.
A total of 254 members of the 450-seat Vekhovna Rada voted in favor of the legislation in the former Soviet republic, which is deeply at odds with Russia over its annexation of Crimea and support for separatists in a conflict that has killed more than 6,000 people.
Under the legislation, the Communist government that ruled between 1917 and 1991 -- the Soviet era -- is condemned as a criminal regime that conducted policies of state terror.
Its symbols and propaganda are banned -- a measure that, if implemented thoroughly, would require the demolition of monuments to Bolshevik Revolution leader Vladimir Lenin and other Soviet-era images that remain.
The legislation was initiated by the government and will become law when it is officially published, possibly on April 10.
It applies the same treatment to the Nazi regime, which occupied and controlled much of Ukraine during World War II before being driven out by Soviet forces.
The legislation is part of a shift away Soviet imagery Kyiv says the Kremlin is using to influence neighbors and promote self-serving myths about World War II amid the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
(UNIAN, AFP)
A tweet from the BBC reporter who exposed a fake news report about a 10-year-old girl who has died in shelling in eastrn Ukraine: