Glenn Kates is the former managing editor for digital at Current Time, the Russian-language network run by RFE/RL in cooperation with VOA. He now reports for RFE/RL as a freelancer.
It's a claim authorities in Kyiv have made for months, but in recent days the evidence has become undeniable. Russian soldiers are now being captured -- and perhaps dying -- in Ukraine.
Following the beheading of American journalist James Foley, U.S.-based social networks ramped up efforts to ban accounts linked to the Islamic State militant group.
The founder of one of Russia's largest grocery chains says that to produce "local" foodstuffs Western goods are often necessary -- a fact that is already leading to at least some backtracking on food sanctions by Russian officials.
Some of the biggest names among pro-Russian separatist in eastern Ukraine are steadily leaving -- often being replaced with local unknowns. Here's a rundown.
Just 24 hours after the Kremlin announced a "humanitarian convoy" was being sent to eastern Ukraine, a bevy of statements from Russian, Western, and Ukrainian officials -- and a convoy about 300 large white trucks -- leave unanswered questions.
A "biker show" in Sevastopol shown on Russian state TV used pyrotechnics and interpretive dance to portray Ukraine as a state overrun by fascists.
With the self-proclaimed republics of Luhansk and Donetsk now apparently fully cut off from each other, Igor Girkin is lashing out at his own.
For months, Moscow has been calling for the international community to accept "federalization" and the right to self-determination for residents of eastern Ukraine. But a planned march for the same in Siberia has prompted authorities to threaten to block at least 17 prominent news sites.
As Kyiv closes in on separatist positions in eastern Ukraine, questions linger over civilian casualties.
With Moscow criticizing U.S. intelligence assessments and international investigators largely unable to reach the disaster site, Western journalists have so far provided the closest thing to an investigation of the Malaysia Airlines disaster.
Evidence increasingly appears to show that a Malaysia Airlines passenger plane was brought down by pro-Russian separatists -- and that Moscow is hindering the investigation.
The marriage of pro-Russian separatist militant "Motorola" to Yelena is not the first love story of the Ukraine crisis and it probably won't be the last. Some of the relationships, however, have not ended well.
Once a pro-Russian separatist stronghold, Slovyansk is now back under the control of the Ukrainian government. But Kyiv still has a long road ahead toward rebuilding the city and gaining the trust of some residents.
One popular source of information on the ongoing conflict in Ukraine is Interior Minister Arsen Avakov's Facebook page. But don't let your kids read it.
A study of data on Russian gas sales shows wide variance in prices between countries.
Nine months ago, the world's attention focused on possible missile strikes in Syria in reaction to a deadly chemical attack. Now, as Islamist militants move in on Iraq, world and regional powers are recalibrating their relationships to answer new threats.
Spurred on by a Hungarian prime minister seeking to "symbolically unite the nation," leaders of Ukraine's 150,000-strong Hungarian minority are asking for self-rule. But community members say that despite the timing, comparisons to the east are unfair.
In Mezhova, a small village near the boundary with the self-declared People’s Republic of Donetsk, residents were banking on the presidential election providing an escape from the nearby chaos.
It certainly lies in the country's east, but Dnipropetrovsk defies preconceived notions of what an eastern Ukrainian city should be like.
Pro-Kyiv and separatist protesters in Odesa agree on very little. But both sides say police are failing to protect civilians. Odesa is just the most deadly example of law enforcement withering away during conflict in eastern and southern Ukraine.
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