11:57
15.5.2014
"The Russian Education Ministry has announced that teachers of Ukrainian language and literature in Crimean schools will be retrained as teachers of Russian. Not only is the main language of tuition changing at the Ukrainian Lyceum in Simferopol, but a Russian flag has now been raised over it."
Read more here: Ukrainian language pushed out of Crimean schools
Read more here: Ukrainian language pushed out of Crimean schools
11:42
15.5.2014
After pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk asked Moscow to allow their self-declared "republic" to join the Russian Federation, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service asked Donetsk residents if they thought their region should stay in Ukraine or join Russia.
11:09
15.5.2014
From our news desk:
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says Moscow will resume energy talks with Ukraine if Kyiv repays part of its natural-gas debt.
Medvedev said on May 14 that Russia could also consider revising the high price increase it put on gas sold to Ukraine, saying "it is possible."
Russian gas giant Gazprom says Ukraine owes $3.51 billion for gas.
Gazprom nearly doubled the price of gas for Ukraine after President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted in February, raising it from $268.5 to $485 per 1,000 cubic meters.
Ukrainian officials say $268.5 is fair and have threatened to take Russia to an international court over the steep price increase.
Ukraine is dependent on Russia for more than half of its gas needs and is the gateway for most of the Russian gas that Western Europe uses. (Reuters and ITAR-TASS)
Medvedev said on May 14 that Russia could also consider revising the high price increase it put on gas sold to Ukraine, saying "it is possible."
Russian gas giant Gazprom says Ukraine owes $3.51 billion for gas.
Gazprom nearly doubled the price of gas for Ukraine after President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted in February, raising it from $268.5 to $485 per 1,000 cubic meters.
Ukrainian officials say $268.5 is fair and have threatened to take Russia to an international court over the steep price increase.
Ukraine is dependent on Russia for more than half of its gas needs and is the gateway for most of the Russian gas that Western Europe uses. (Reuters and ITAR-TASS)
10:31
15.5.2014
Poland's PM Tusk and Hungary's PM Orban disagree on Ukraine:
10:21
15.5.2014
Ukraine gets a foot in the EU door today:
10:19
15.5.2014
Ukraine's east-west disconnect described in air routes:
09:33
15.5.2014
09:31
15.5.2014
The latest profile of that elusive "Russian colonel":
09:12
15.5.2014
Calls for federalization from Ukrainian parliament:
08:56
15.5.2014
Behind the balaclava was a family man in his 30s, who did not want to be identified for fear of reprisals, but said he was fed up with the daily struggle to earn a meagre wage and complained of rising prices for food, gas and electricity.
"I want our standard of living to get better, at least to be equal to Russia, so we can live a normal life."
"I want our standard of living to get better, at least to be equal to Russia, so we can live a normal life."