15:29
9.4.2014
Kinda cool, although hard to know how widely used it is.
15:34
9.4.2014
16:00
9.4.2014
RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service spoke to some of the pro-Russian activists rallying outside the occupied regional administration building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on April 8:
16:05
9.4.2014
What is the "people's will" in Ukraine anyway?
16:40
9.4.2014
How Russia can control Ukraine without firing a shot.
17:41
9.4.2014
From RFE/RL's news desk:
A top U.S. diplomat says the United States is helping Ukraine comb through a "treasure trove" of documents recovered from the government of ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in order to prosecute corrupt officials.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said Department of Justice officials were helping to "exploit" the documents so that law enforcement authorities can make cases against "corrupt officials both in Ukrainian courts and in international courts."
Nuland was speaking on April 9 at a congressional committee hearing on the situation in Ukraine.
Yanukovych opponents seized potentially incriminating documents after his government collapsed in late February, including hundreds left behind at his lavish residence outside Kyiv.
Many of the documents were found floating in a reservoir near the grounds, an apparent attempt by Yanukovych’s fleeing aides to destroy them.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said Department of Justice officials were helping to "exploit" the documents so that law enforcement authorities can make cases against "corrupt officials both in Ukrainian courts and in international courts."
Nuland was speaking on April 9 at a congressional committee hearing on the situation in Ukraine.
Yanukovych opponents seized potentially incriminating documents after his government collapsed in late February, including hundreds left behind at his lavish residence outside Kyiv.
Many of the documents were found floating in a reservoir near the grounds, an apparent attempt by Yanukovych’s fleeing aides to destroy them.
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9.4.2014
20:01
9.4.2014
RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports that the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) says it has captured a female Russian spy who was "carrying out a mission from the [Russian] secret services to destabilize the situation."
Maria Koleda, a woman in her early 20s, was apprehended on April 9 in southern Ukraine.
The SBU said Koleda confessed to shooting and wounding three people during pro-Kremlin protests.
The SBU also said Koleda informed her Russian "spymaster" that she and other activists had an "unlimited quantity" of explosives and she was sending a sabotage group to Donetsk.
People in Russia who know Koleda said she has changed her political views several times, once being a member of radical groups Other Russia and Avant Garde of Red Youth, then switching to a pro-Kremlin group, Young Russia.
Maria Koleda, a woman in her early 20s, was apprehended on April 9 in southern Ukraine.
The SBU said Koleda confessed to shooting and wounding three people during pro-Kremlin protests.
The SBU also said Koleda informed her Russian "spymaster" that she and other activists had an "unlimited quantity" of explosives and she was sending a sabotage group to Donetsk.
People in Russia who know Koleda said she has changed her political views several times, once being a member of radical groups Other Russia and Avant Garde of Red Youth, then switching to a pro-Kremlin group, Young Russia.
20:57
9.4.2014
22:18
9.4.2014
Barring any late-breaking news, that ends our blogging for April 9.