Crimea
July 10, 2011Elena Vnorovscaia / Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- Moldovans who want to cross the Ukrainian border will no longer be required to show the amount of 1200 euros to enter Ukraine. Earlier this quite a big amount of money was a compulsory condition for Moldavian...
Catholic University protests 'interference' by Ukraine security service
May 28, 2010Teaching staff at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv have complained about interference by the country's Security Service in its activities, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. University Rector Borys Gudziak said in a memorandum that on May ...
Yanukovych authorizes the return of Russia's FSB to the Crimea
May 24, 2010By Taras Kuzio The FSB returns to Ukraine After the second round of Ukraine’s 2010 elections, Russia demanded that President, Viktor Yanukovych, undertake measures to improve relations between both countries. Moscow demanded that Yanukovych...
Russian intelligence services return to Ukraine's Crimea
May 21, 2010By Paul Goble Aleksandr Bortnikov, the head of Russia’s FSB, and Valery Khoroshkovsky, head of Ukraine’s SBU, have signed a five-year agreement that will allow Moscow again to put intelligence agents in Crimea, from which 19 such...
Non-bloc status - Ukraine’s shift to Russian-vector orientation
May 21, 2010By Vladimir Socor Opening, alongside Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, the Interstate Commission’s session, Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, turned the clock back to 1990. Invoking that year’s declaration of Ukraine’s sovereignty...
90,000 Crimean Tatars remain in Exile on 66th anniversary of their deportation by Stalin
May 19, 2010By Paul Goble Today, Crimean Tatars and their friends and supporters marked the 66th anniversary of Stalin’s brutal deportation of that nationality on completely false charges that the Crimean Tatars had collaborated with the Germans, a deportation...
Crimean Tatar groups in Germany appeal to Ukrainian president
May 15, 2010Crimean Tatar organizations in Germany have sent an open letter to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych urging him to "protect Crimea's indigenous people from discrimination," RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service reports. In their letter, the authors...
Crimean Tatar issue "lost" in Russia-Ukraine deal over Sevastopol
May 04, 2010Paul Goble Unless Crimean Tatar Issue is Addressed, Sevastopol Base Agreement May Not Remain the Victory Many in Moscow Think, Markedonov Says Moscow is celebrating its Sevastopol accord with Kyiv as “a victory … over the West,&rdquo...
Polarizing politics in Ukraine
April 28, 2010By David J. Kramer The agreement signed last week between Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev in which Ukraine will receive cheaper gas in exchange for extending Russia’s Black Sea Fleet presence in Crimea...
Ukraine ratifies Russia naval base amid violent protests in Rada
April 27, 2010Ukraine's parliament has voted to extend a lease on a Russian naval base, during a turbulent session where smoke bombs and eggs were thrown at Ukrainian politicians. Watch video below The agreement extends Russia's lease on a naval base at the Ukrainian...