Seventy years after the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the role the accord played in triggering World War II and dividing Europe remains the subject of intense debate. Opinion is split even among academics and politicians who agree throwing light on Soviet crimes is an essential part of healing Europe's historical wounds.
The men are activists of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists and could be sent to jail for five years for the damage they reportedly did to the statue on June 30.
The Ukrainian Embassy in Washington has denied a report that U.S. and Ukrainian officials have met to discuss using radar stations in Ukraine for U.S. missile defense, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
Russia expressed concern about discussions on missile defense between U.S. officials and non-NATO members, local news agencies reported.
Heavy snowfall and storms have left more than 600 towns and villages in Ukraine's Lviv Oblast without electricity, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
A contest that awards wacky but revealing research on everything from tequila to cow-milk production, the "Ig Nobel" prizes poke fun at the real Nobel prizes. Winners says that the contest credits soulful science: the ability to wonder, to question, to laugh, and, ultimately, to advance.
Representatives of the CIS are holding a summit in the Moldovan capital today, but most of the Central Asian presidents won't be in attendance. The presidents of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan instead sent lower-level delegations. Focusing on the three Central Asian states that make up the CIS's southern frontier, we examine how, by skipping the summit, they might be exhibiting their discontent with Russia.
Russia has said it was seeking clarification of "unexpected" remarks by a senior U.S. defense official that the United States was considering Ukraine as a place for stationing early-warning radar systems.
Ukraine's parliament has approved Petro Poroshenko, an ally of President Viktor Yushchenko and a senior central bank official, as foreign minister.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is calling on journalists to be more active in protecting freedom of speech in the country, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has handed over archive documents regarding the Soviet Union's demolition of churches in Ukraine to the leaders of Ukrainian Orthodox Church, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
Erik Berglof, the chief economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, joined other officials from international financial institutions at meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund this week in Istanbul, where one of the central topics was the global financial crisis. In an exclusive interview with RFE/RL, he discusses how Central and Eastern European countries are faring amid the crisis. Berglof also discusses the conditions that the IMF is attaching to loans that it is giving to governments in the region.
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