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Minsk Meeting Aimed At Stopping Fighting In Eastern Ukraine
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'Frozen Conflict' May Be Ukraine's Best Hope, For Now
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France are meeting in Belarus to try to stop the war in Ukraine....
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Ukrainian Soldiers Retreat After Eastern Town Falls
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View ArticleIn Battered Ukraine, Spirit Of Defiance Lives On In Maidan Square
A year ago, clashes killed scores of anti-government protesters in Ukraine and the pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, fled the country.Over the weekend, thousands of people turned out in Kiev's...
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Putin Critic Boris Nemtsov Shot Dead In Moscow
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Russia's most prominent opposition leaders has been shot and killed. A Russian government statement says that...
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Boris Nemtsov, Shot Friday, Was A Vehement Anti-Putin Critic
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. Mourners in Moscow are gathering at the site where one...
View ArticleA New Front In The Ukrainian Conflict: Russian Gas Imports
Ukraine faces a trio of crises — war, bankruptcy, and now, the threat that its people may have the heat turned off for the rest of winter.Russia is once again threatening to cut off shipments of...
View ArticleDespite Cease-Fire, Skirmishes Carry On Along Ukraine's Front Line
Fighting in eastern Ukraine between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russia separatists has died down after a cease-fire agreement last month, but there are stretches of the front line where shooting has never...
View ArticleForeign Carmakers Shift Into Reverse In Russia
General Motors announced last week that it's closing its auto plant in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Volkswagen says it will lay off workers and reduce shifts at a plant in central Russia.The latest auto...
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Ukrainian Protestants Say Religious Intolerance Rising In Donetsk
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The war in eastern Ukraine has driven nearly a million people from their homes. Many left because those houses...
View ArticleAt Russia's Huge WWII Remembrance, An Absence Of Western Leaders
Victory Day, which commemorates the Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, is the biggest annual celebration in Russia. And Saturday's event, marking the 70th anniversary, will be among...
View ArticleGlory Of Moscow's 80-Year-Old Subway Tainted By Stalin Connections
Moscow this year is celebrating the 80th anniversary of its subway system — the Moscow Metro — a crowning achievement of the Soviet Union's unprecedented forced industrialization in the 1930s.One of...
View ArticleA Thorn For Russia, Georgia's Ex-President Pops Up In Ukraine
When Mikheil Saakashvili was the flamboyant, provocative president of Georgia, he made an international name for himself with his willingness to take on Russia, his much larger neighbor to the...
View ArticleU.S. Army Begins Training Ukrainian Soldiers
Fighting surged again this week in eastern Ukraine, where government troops are battling separatist militias and their Russian allies.NATO is responding by sending troops and equipment to eastern...
View ArticleWho's Behind A String Of Bombings In Ukraine's Black Sea 'Pearl'?
Oleg Konstantinov, the editor of a news website called Dumskaya in Ukraine's port city of Odessa, pulls up a map on a computer screen in his small, crowded newsroom.
View ArticleTough Painkiller Rules Push Some Russian Cancer Patients To Suicide
There's been a spate of suicides among cancer patients in Russia and family members say their loved ones took their own lives because of unbearable pain, the result of government rules that make it...
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Popular Russian Balladeer Sang About Ordinary Life In The USSR
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Next week marks 35 years since the death of the Soviet Union's most popular singer-songwriter.
View ArticleKaspersky Lab: Based In Russia, Doing Cybersecurity In The West
Given Russia's cyber skills, it's not surprising that a Russian entrepreneur, Eugene Kaspersky, runs one of the world's leading companies offering protection from malware and online crime.But with the...
View ArticleFor Kazakhstan's LGBT Community, A Struggle For Recognition And Rights
Last month, the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan made the news, as it competed with Beijing to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.Kazakhstan lost its bid, but the effort drew attention to the...
View ArticleRussia's War On Western Food: Detaining Cheese, Crushing Frozen Geese
Throughout the week, Russians have been watching scenes of destruction on the evening news.It's part of Russia's war against so-called contraband foods, as authorities crush, burn and bury Western food...
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