There were a number of Ukrainians on the streets of New York today protesting Vladimir Putin's visit to the UN. RFE/RL's Russian Service was there:
Hundreds of protesters demonstrated in New York City to denounce Russian President Vladimir Putin's appearance at the United Nation's General Assembly. Among those at the rally on September 27 were Ukrainian Americans. They demanded the Russian leader return Crimea to Ukraine after annexing the peninsula last year.
On case you missed it, the BBC ran a nice story at the weekend, looking at how Kyiv's new-look police force is faring in Kyiv:
When police officer Valerie Voloshchuk puts on her smart navy uniform in the morning, twists her blonde hair into a neat bun and fixes her pearl earrings, she never quite knows what will await her on patrol.
The 27-year-old former lawyer and one-time air stewardess has been in this job only a few months.
And like the other fresh-faced recruits of Ukraine's new police force, she's been trained to deal with all sorts of trouble.
"It can be stressful at first," says Eka Zguladze, the Deputy Interior Minister who is almost as young and has transferred to Ukraine the lessons she learned when rolling out a similar police reform programme in Georgia a few years ago.
"For some, it's seeing death for the first time, or arresting an armed man, or coping with a small child who has swallowed his tongue before the medics arrive.
"But since the new force has been on Kiev's streets, there's not been one allegation of corruption."
It is very different from Ukraine's old "militsiya" police force who were more likely to harass you for a bribe than help maintain law and order.
Read the entire article here