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Live Blog: A New Government In Ukraine (Archive Sept. 3, 2018-Aug. 16, 2019)

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-- EDITOR'S NOTE: We have started a new Ukraine Live Blog as of August 17, 2019. You can find it here.

-- A court in Moscow has upheld a lower court's decision to extend pretrial detention for six of the 24 Ukrainian sailors detained by Russian forces along with their three naval vessels in November near the Kerch Strait, which links the Black Sea and Sea of Azov.

-- The U.S. special peace envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker, says Russian propaganda is making it a challenge to solve the conflict in the east of the country.

-- Two more executives of DTEK, Ukraine's largest private power and coal producer, have been charged in a criminal case on August 14 involving an alleged conspiracy to fix electricity prices with the state energy regulator, Interfax reported.

-- A Ukrainian deputy minister and his aide have been detained after allegedly taking a bribe worth $480,000, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau said on Facebook.

*Time stamps on the blog refer to local time in Ukraine

10:19 5.1.2019

And here's UNIAN's report on the situation in the east:

10:17 5.1.2019

For more background, here are a couple of older RFE/RL reports on this very subject. Sadly, they still seem to be just as relevant today:

Ukraine's Amber-Mining Outlaws
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Illegal Amber Digging Lays Waste To Ukrainian Forest
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10:11 5.1.2019

Good morning. We'll get the live blog started today with this Euromaidan Press update from the front line:

20:15 4.1.2019

Barring any major developments, that ends the live blogging for today.

20:14 4.1.2019

17:32 4.1.2019

15:47 4.1.2019

Ukraine's Central Election Commission has registered its first presidential candidate.

14:54 4.1.2019

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10:31 4.1.2019

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