Daisy Sindelar is the vice president and editor in chief of RFE/RL.
In media and social networks at home and abroad, the Kremlin has become expert at utilizing Internet saboteurs, or trolls, to promote its agenda. How are trolls used and why do they matter?
International officials initially called the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 a crash. Now they're saying the passenger jet was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. Kyiv is blaming Russia and the pro-Moscow separatists. Russia is blaming the Ukrainians.
Nadiya Savchenko, the Ukrainian helicopter gunner abducted by separatists and facing Russian charges for the death of two Russian journalists, is one of Ukraine's most accomplished female soldiers.
Russia vowed there would be "grave consequences" after Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova signed partnership agreements with the European Union on June 27. We look at the measures Moscow has already imposed just over a week later.
A new Russian law that bans expletives in films, plays, and the media has sparked indignation among many language lovers, who say it's precisely the profanities that make Russian so rich.
Opposition activist Muratbek Ketebaev has fought off arrest and extradition since fleeing Kazakhstan in 2010. Since then, the one-time associate of Mukhtar Ablyazov has received asylum in Poland. But he still keeps a critical eye on his homeland and its leader, Nursultan Nazarbaev.
Poland this year is honoring Jan Karski, a member of Poland's World War II-era Underground State and an eyewitness to the Jewish Holocaust whose warnings to the Allied leaders went largely ignored.
A popular, if vulgar, slogan comparing Vladimir Putin to a particular part of the male anatomy has gained an even wider audience since Ukraine's foreign minister, Andriy Deshchytsa, was caught on video repeating the phrase.
Ukraine's leaders are struggling to equip and feed its woefully undersupplied military.
In Ukraine, decentralizing government power is considered crucial to repairing the country's internal divisions. Marcin Swiecicki, a Polish lawmaker counseling Kyiv on how to hand off power to the regions, says Ukraine is fundamentally ready for reforms, despite numerous challenges ahead.
As Barack Obama is in Poland today, Warsaw is using the occasion to urge the United States to rethink its approach to Eastern Europe.
It's all but certain that "chocolate king" Petro Poroshenko is going to win more votes than "gas princess" Yulia Tymoshenko in Ukraine's May 25 first-round elections. But there are still a few new things to learn about the vote.
Ukraine's richest man, Rinat Akhmetov, has just organized a protest against separatists in his native Donetsk. Which is strange, because he used to be seen as their biggest supporter.
After a quarter-century in the global village, the Kremlin says it's had enough. Angered by U.S. and EU sanctions, Moscow is now threatening to unplug from the West and create a self-sufficient alternate universe where Russian credit cards, Russian Internet, and even Russian song contests reign supreme. Going solo, however, may not be as simple as it seems.
Mounting evidence suggests the self-rule referendums in two eastern Ukrainian regions were riddled with procedural violations. We look at the claims of fraud.
Russia has been one of the Eurovision Song Contest's most enthusiastic members since it joined in 1994, embracing its ethos of kitschy pop like a natural. But this year it suddenly found much to dislike in Eurovision.
For all its kitsch and camp, the Eurovision Song Contest has a serious side as well. Just ask Paul Jordan -- or as he's better known, "Dr. Eurovision."
After a glitzy semifinal round in the Danish capital, 10 countries have advanced to the May 10 final of Eurovision, including rivals Ukraine and Russia. But while Ukraine's Maria Yaremchuk drew cheers for patriotic remarks about her homeland, Russia's 17-year-old Tolmachevy Sisters were booed.
The Eurovision song contest insists it is strictly nonpolitical. But with Ukraine and Russia set to face off in semifinals on May 6, many are wondering if the countries' mounting hostilities at home will be reflected on stage in Copenhagen.
The European Union's enlargement commissioner, Stefan Fuele, says the EU has contributed to the current conflict in Ukraine by "failing" to understand Russian President Vladimir Putin's past statements about the legacy of the U.S.S.R.
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