First lady Marina Poroshenko makes a call for Ukrainians to support singer Jamal at the May 10 Eurovision Song Contest's semifinals. Jamal is a Crimean Tatar whose song is called 1944 and is about Stalin's deportation of the Crimean Tatars.
An anti-Russia protest in Yerevan ahead of a visit by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov:
An interesting piece about the history of Crimea:
Construction work on the highway from Odesa to Reni will begin in late May:
Pro-Russian officials in Crimea have begun a daily train service from Sevastopol to Kerch:
President Petro Poroshenko has intstructed the Defense Ministry to accelerate the development of placing chaplains throughout the armed forces.
A new survey in Germany shows that some 62 percent of those polled favor either maintaining sanctions against Russia (46 percent) or toughening them (16 percent). Only 27 percent say they think the sanctions should be lifted. A total of 64 percent said they no longer see Putin's Russia as a "trustworthy partner."