"A Bitter Taste Of Freedom," a film about Anna Politkovskaya, a private woman whom most people know as a fearless journalist and Kremlin critic slain in 2006, finally premieres in Moscow.
This is the first time in contemporary Ukrainian history where the winner of a presidential contest has gone after the loser. It establishes a dangerous precedent.
An economic slump and burgeoning civic unrest mean Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka is facing the gravest challenge to his authority since he took power in 1994. But if his reign does come to an end, what happens next?
There was always something about the Twin Towers that made me feel they were my buildings. They were a seminal part of my new American life, they grew as my American sense of self grew.
Sixteen years after the massacre of some 8,000 Bosnians at Srebrenica, a court has ruled that the government of the Netherlands is to blame for the failure of Dutch peacekeepers to protect the local population. The decision has important ramifications for humanitarian law and the future of peacekeeping operations.
Two firms retained by former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to examine the charges of abuse of power and improper use of budgetary funds brought against her by the Ukrainian government have said there is no factual basis for the accusations.
U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to leave his meeting with 20 leaders from Central and Eastern European countries is open to competing interpretations. Some of those attending the summit will undoubtedly be wondering whether this is a case of the president saving the most important item on his itinerary for last -- or of treating their part of the world as an afterthought.
Ukraine's proposed new revenue code, which the government is determined to push through parliament, has the country's small-business owners up in arms. Some 30,000 of them descended on the capital this week to protest what they called the government’s "tax terror."
Ukrainian-born Alina Trieger has become the first female rabbi ordained in Berlin since before World War II.
An audit by three U.S. firms of the Ukrainian government from 2008 until early this year found that former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's government misappropriated more than $400 million. But the opposition says the audit is politically motivated and the auditors are compromised by conflicts of interest.
Yes, there is disappointment, disenchantment, and a pervasive feeling of being powerless to influence what elected officials do in Ukraine. The people, however, have not given up on the ideals of the Orange movement.
Much has been made in the Ukrainian media of a possible third force -- a dark-horse candidate who will surge on the wave of popular discontent to challenge either Yanukovych or Tymoshenko in a second round. Serhiy Tihipko might be that dark horse.
Ukrainians are getting ready to elect their first president since the Orange Revolution. Eighteen candidates are on the ballot and the stakes are high. But what's interesting for many voters is not the candidates or their platforms -- it's who's got the biggest billboard.
Ukraine's current president, Viktor Yushchenko, has made remembering the famine a cornerstone of his presidency. And yet large swathes of Ukraine remain deeply ambivalent about the famine. Even today, when the facts about the famine are widely publicized and accessible, eastern and southeastern Ukraine -- where the famine took its greatest toll -- has the least number of memorials.
A commentator once compared Ukraine's Yulia Tymoshenko to a nuclear powerhouse: Left uncontained, she will rage out of control. But she's blamed the latest government collapse on former allies in the "orange coalition," and her history suggests that she'll come back strong.
Thirty years ago, Musa Mamut poured gasoline over himself and set himself alight to protest the treatment of his fellow Crimean Tatars.
