News Source: Sify News
| about 1 month ago
Stone-faced Nazi soldiers wielding rifles marched Kiev's sobbing Jews to be killed in the Babi Yar ravine as passers-by held back tears in a dramatic theatrical performance meant to mark the anniversary of the massacre Tuesday. On that day 68 years...
News Source: Kiev Post
| about 1 month ago
Defense Department upset about Ukraine's refusal to conduct joint military exercises Today, 16:53 Interfax-Ukraine The U.S...Deputy Defense Minister for International Security Alexander Vershbow said in Kyiv on September 29. "We are upset about the...
News Source: Kiev Post
| about 1 month ago
President Viktor Yushchenko had already banned the sale of the Odessa Port fertiliser plant by decree earlier this month in a move widely seen as an attempt to spite his rival, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Both will compete for the post of...
News Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
| about 1 month ago
Ukrainian Jews held two ceremonies in Kiev to remember the Jewish victims of the Babi Yar massacre. The dueling ceremonies, according to some observers, illustrate the lack of unity within the Jewish community of Kiev and Ukraine on the eve of...
News Source: Independent
| about 1 month ago
Putin, who oversaw eight years of unprecedented economic growth as president, said the government will continue its modernisation course unhindered by a budget deficit or calls for a greater state role. There is reason for "cautious optimism" that...
News Source: Kiev Post
| about 1 month ago
Some 150,000 people, mostly Jews but also including Ukrainians, Russians, Poles and Gypsies, were shot by Nazi troops at Babi Yar, a wooded ravine on the outskirts of the capital, Kiev, in a two-year period from September 1941. A decision earlier...