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Check out this report by RFE/RL's Charles Recknagel on the situation in Mariupol:
A week after the southeastern port city of Mariupol saw some of the worst violence of the Ukraine crisis so far, an uneasy calm has fallen over the city.
But it is not the kind of calm which comes from government forces clearly defeating separatists -- or vice-versa -- and then restoring order.
Instead, it is the kind of limbo that develops when nobody has won and the city turns into a gray zone where fearful residents walk the streets by day and criminal gangs rule the streets at night.
You can read the whole piece here.
A week after the southeastern port city of Mariupol saw some of the worst violence of the Ukraine crisis so far, an uneasy calm has fallen over the city.
But it is not the kind of calm which comes from government forces clearly defeating separatists -- or vice-versa -- and then restoring order.
Instead, it is the kind of limbo that develops when nobody has won and the city turns into a gray zone where fearful residents walk the streets by day and criminal gangs rule the streets at night.
You can read the whole piece here.
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Nearly 1,000 people participate in an "Embroidery March" in Dniepropetrovsk
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Separatists in Donetsk region say they have detailed around 100 people since April. This from Interfax:
DONETSK, Ukraine. May 17 (Interfax) - Militias have arrested about 100 people for action against the Donetsk People's Republic since the start of April, a member of the Security Council of the Donetsk People's Republic said on Saturday.
"There is a group of persons who have been acting against the Donetsk People's Republic. It doesn't exist any more, it's been disarmed. About 100 people have been detained," Leonid Baranov told
reporters in Donetsk city without disclosing the detainees' whereabouts.
He denied that the detainees were hostages.
reporters in Donetsk city without disclosing the detainees' whereabouts.
He denied that the detainees were hostages.
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From RFE/RL News Desk:
Leaders of Crimea's Tatars called off a ceremony to commemorate 70 years since their deportation by Stalin.
The Mejlis, the Crimean Tatars' main representative body, announced its decision on May 17, one day after authorities in Ukraine's peninsula, annexed by Russia in March, banned all public gatherings until June 6.
In a statement on its website, the Mejlis said "no mass rallies will take place in the center of Simferopol" on May 18.
It called instead for Tatars to gather at religious centers and other locations.
Tens of thousands usually gather for the rally in Simferopol, marking the day on May 18, 1944 when Soviet authorities began deporting Crimean Tatars to Central Asia. Many of the 200,000 deportees died on their way into exile.
The United Nations on May 16 voiced concern about "serious problems" of harassment and persecution of Crimean Tatars since the region's annexation.
Leaders of Crimea's Tatars called off a ceremony to commemorate 70 years since their deportation by Stalin.
The Mejlis, the Crimean Tatars' main representative body, announced its decision on May 17, one day after authorities in Ukraine's peninsula, annexed by Russia in March, banned all public gatherings until June 6.
In a statement on its website, the Mejlis said "no mass rallies will take place in the center of Simferopol" on May 18.
It called instead for Tatars to gather at religious centers and other locations.
Tens of thousands usually gather for the rally in Simferopol, marking the day on May 18, 1944 when Soviet authorities began deporting Crimean Tatars to Central Asia. Many of the 200,000 deportees died on their way into exile.
The United Nations on May 16 voiced concern about "serious problems" of harassment and persecution of Crimean Tatars since the region's annexation.
17:18
17.5.2014
From "Global Post" - 3 Things Everybody Should Know About Ukraine.
Read the whole report here.
GlobalPost correspondent Dan Peleschuk spent the past two weeks traveling Ukraine from its industrialized, pro-Russian east to its pro-European, patriotic west and returned with the following impressions everyone should know about what’s really happening in the crisis-riddled country.
Read the whole report here.
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