Security measures have been strengthened and a criminal case has been launched after an ethnic conflict left one policeman dead in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Marhanets, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
It's been an up-and-down year for the Nabucco natural gas pipeline. Just as work on the long-stalled project seems set to finally begin, some shift -- usually at the hand of Russian energy giant Gazprom -- alters the commercial landscape and Nabucco's chances appear to recede. But the pipeline's supporters have just selected a big name in European politics to help push the project toward realization -- former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer.
U.S. President Barack Obama hopes to kick-start Washington's moribund relations with Moscow in his first summit meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. But the two sides face serious divisions, and few are predicting the visit will produce anything close to a breakthrough.
Ukraine's parliament has authorized more than $1 billion of funding needed for the Euro 2012 soccer championship.
I don't know about you but I believe I've never seen a truly beautiful or aesthetic statue of Lenin. Perhaps it's because I've seen so many of them they all morphed into one generic image, or perhaps because the subject himself was no great example of masculine loveliness.
U.S. Congressman Robert Wexler (Democrat, Florida) was in the Czech Republic this week to attend an international conference on the assets of Holocaust victims. During his time in the Czech capital, Prague, Wexler visited RFE/RL's headquarters, where he sat down for a broad-ranging interview with correspondent Gregory Feifer.
The Economic Court of Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk Oblast ruled on June 26 that the disputed building of the local Catholic Church should be returned to the Roman Catholic parish, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
Russia hopes to avoid a repeat of the January gas dispute with Ukraine that severely cut supplies to Europe, Russia's gas export monopoly has said ahead of talks with Ukraine.
Between 1996 and 2006, Ukraine has switched from a semi-parliamentary to a semi-presidential system, but neither model yielded political stability. If Ukraine really wants such stability, it needs to opt either for a full presidential or a full parliamentary system.
Ukraine's parliament on June 23 set a presidential election for January 17, according to a Reuters reporter watching proceedings.
Unknown individuals opened fire on Belarusian border guards from Ukrainian territory on June 22, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
EU leaders focused almost exclusively on domestic challenges during their two-day summit. Opting for continuity in a time of crisis, Jose Manuel Barroso was picked for a second term as president of the European Commission, while Ireland received legal guarantees in the hope it will ratify the EU's constitutional Lisbon Treaty in a second referendum in October.
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