A papal spokesman said today that Pope Francis did not know what the St. George ribbon was when it was placed on him by a Russian politician earlier this week because the ribbon is unknown outside of the former Soviet Union.
Another in the series of essays called "Letters from the occupied Donbas":
A video report on the World War-II era cannons that have now been returned to the museum in Ukraine from which they were taken during occupation by separatist forces.
Another report on the visit by the pro-Putin biker gang Night Wolves to Prague:
The Ukrainian prosecutor's office is investigating 10 cases of either the murder or disappearance of a Crimean Tatar since the Russian occupation of Crimea.
Of the 327 towns or villages renamed under Ukraine's decommunization law, only two of them have challenged the renaming in court.