A major Ukrainian TV station had to distance itself from a New Year's Eve skit that angered activists for its crude depiction of a "Pinocchio" who comes out as transgender.
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, now an outspoken Ukrainian opposition figure, accused the presidents of Ukraine and Georgia of conspiring against him after a Tbilisi court sentenced him to three years in prison in absentia for abuse of power. (RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)
A court in Cyprus has issued an order to freeze $820 million in assets held by Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine's richest man, as part of a legal battle with a rival over the ownership of fixed-line telecoms group Ukrtelecom, The Financial Times reported.
The Tbilisi city court has found former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili guilty of abuse of power in connection with a 2006 murder case and sentenced him in absentia to three years in prison.
A handful of picketers gathered outside the Kyiv offices of the 1+1 TV station on January 4 to voice their anger over a Pinocchio parody that activists say was homophobic and deeply insulting to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community.
Germany's foreign minister is calling for the establishment of an armed UN peacekeeping mission in eastern Ukraine before Russia's March presidential election.
U.S. President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman has sued Special Counsel Robert Mueller, alleging that the prosecutor overreached by pursuing charges that are unrelated to his mission to investigate alleged Russian interference in the presidential election.
Top White House adviser H.R. McMaster says one of the most important tasks in defending U.S. national security is to reveal Russia’s “insidious” interference in elections worldwide to prevent Moscow from meddling again in the democratic process.
The National Police office of the Kyiv region says activist attorney Iryna Nozdrovska died of multiple stab wounds in what was described as a “violent death.”
U.S. national security adviser H.R. McMaster said that the United States must "pull the curtain back" on "insidious" Russian election meddling and other cases of Moscow's "destabilizing behavior."
Mikheil Saakashvili, the former Georgian president who is now an outspoken Ukrainian opposition figure, has accused Russia's lead security agency of helping to fabricate evidence used against his ongoing criminal prosecution.
Protesters gathered in Kyiv to demand justice for a lawyer whose body was found on New Year's Day. (RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)
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