Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall that ushered in the end of communism in eastern Europe and the break-up of the Soviet Union, all the signs point to a new Cold War between Russia and…
Democracy in action in Donetsk.
EPA/Alexander Ermochenko
Much of the world may regard the elections that took place in the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics on November 2 as illegitimate, but there appears to be little political will to avert the most likely…
Arsenyi Yatsenyuk needs support from other parties if he is to stay as prime minister.
EPA/Tatyana Zenkovich
Ukrainians have voted for a new parliament. The exit polls, in line with earlier predictions, indicate that the Petro Poroshenko Bloc – which also includes the UDAR party of Kiev’s mayor, former boxing…
Pavel Gubarev: self-proclaimed ‘People’s Governor’ of Donetsk region.
EPA/Photomig
There are two competing and irreconcilable narratives about the crisis in eastern Ukraine that divide public opinion and media coverage in the region and the country – as much as they divide Russia and…
Petro Poroshenko has won a clear first-round victory in Ukraine’s presidential election.
EPA/Yuri Kochetkov
With the outright victory of Petro Poroshenko in Ukraine’s presidential elections on May 25 now confirmed, hopes are running high for a new beginning that will deliver a swift way out of a protracted crisis…