Ukraine's Culture Ministry has warned the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church that it could face lawsuits if its priests continuing participating in pro-European Union protests.
Entire families have made tents their home in Kyiv's Independence Square as pro-EU demonstrations continue in the Ukrainian capital. RFE/RL met with members of two such families.
Tens of thousands of pro-Western Ukrainians have massed in Kyiv to protest the beating in a clash between protesters and police of prominent opposition leader Yuriy Lutsenko.
At least four statues of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin have been vandalized since the beginning of the year in Ukraine, a trend attributed to growing public rejection of the country's Soviet past.
Ukrainian opposition leader Vitaly Klitschko is calling for European leaders to slap sanctions on members of the government of President Viktor Yanukovych.
Riot police and protesters have clashed in Kyiv, leaving dozens wounded, including Yuriy Lutsenko, a former interior minister.
Kyiv's Pechera District Court ruled on January 8 that Yaroslav Prytulenko must remain in detention and that a presidential decree on releasing individuals detained during peaceful demonstrations cannot be applied since the wording of the decree is unclear.
The Ukraine-Russia deal was reached last month, weeks after Kyiv walked away from signing a free-trade pact with the European Union.
Prosecutors in the United States say a Ukrainian man has pleaded guilty to setting up and running an international website that for years provided customers across the world with images and videos of children being sexually abused.
Eight people have been killed in a fire that broke out in a jewelry factory in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
Authorities in the western Ukrainian town of Berdichev say a two-meter high statue to the founder of the Soviet Union Vladimir Lenin has been "completely destroyed," the third to have been damaged or destroyed since a Lenin likeness was torn down amid pro-EU protests in Kyiv early last month.
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