Ukrainian troops in Crimea face a dilemma. Should they abandon their lives on the peninsula and move to an uncertain future on the Ukrainian mainland? Or should they become Russian citizens in order to stay?
A day after Ukrainian opposition leaders refused to accept a partnership deal from President Viktor Yanukovych, the Euromaidan protests have gained fresh momentum.
Ukraine's pro-European protests have seen its first fatalities since plunging into violence last week. Euromaidan helper Yuriy Verbytsky is believed to have been kidnapped and left to die in a forest outside Kyiv.
On November 23, Ukraine marks the 80th anniversary of the Holodomor, the man-made famine that left millions of people dead over the course of 1932-33. RFE/RL spoke to some of the last remaining Holodomor survivors about the terror of slow starvation.
Writer Ivan Dziuba calls the famine a blow to Ukraine's future. And the only way to fight back is to free oneself of this heavy burden of genetic memory by revealing the entire truth.
The bigger you are, the harder you fall. But the longer-term effects of the current financial crisis are beginning to be felt in smaller countries as well. One such place is Ukraine, where the central bank this week took the controversial step of restricting lending and withdrawal limits.
