The Hot New Tourist Destination: Chernobyl

Staff / Truthdig Dec 14, 2010 The Ukrainian government is planning to invite tourists inside the 30-mile exclusion zone to get up close and personal with nuclear disaster The ministry of emergency situations says visitors should be safe -- provided they don’t wander (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

No NATO for Ukraine

Staff / Truthdig Jun 3, 2010 With a nod to the Kremlin, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych proposed a bill to his parliament, which it approved Thursday, to keep their nation from joining NATO's ranks. Take that, hegemonic Western policymakers! Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Floodwaters Threaten Warsaw, Claim at Least 14 in Poland

Staff / Truthdig May 25, 2010 The Polish people are having a rough time of it this spring. At least 14 people have died in recent days after Poland's largest river, the Vistula, flooded an area some 50 miles away from Warsaw, and the capital city is in danger of becoming waterlogged as well. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Raw Video: Ukraine Parliament Smoke-Bomb-Egg-Fight

Staff / Truthdig Apr 29, 2010 Here's some footage to keep the dysfunction of U.S. politics in perspective. Our lawmakers may not agree on anything, they may be rude to the president and on the corporate take, but at least they have the decency to keep their eggs and smoke bombs at home. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Ukraine Agrees to Hand Over Nuclear Material

Staff / Truthdig Apr 12, 2010 Score one for President Barack Obama’s nuclear summit. The White House announced Monday that Ukraine will give up its entire stockpile of highly enriched uranium by 2012 and convert its research reactors to stop producing the stuff. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Kremlin Ally Wins Ukrainian Presidency

Staff / Truthdig Feb 8, 2010 "Weird" Viktor Yanukovich has won the Ukrainian presidency, exit polls indicate, shifting power in the former Soviet republic to a more pro-Kremlin position after five years of "Orange Revolution" political fervor. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Russia-Ukraine Spat Leaves Europe in the Cold

Staff / Truthdig Jan 12, 2009 Hundreds of thousands of freezing Europeans are waiting for Russia and Ukraine to resolve a pricing dispute, while EU officials engage in scramblepants diplomacy to get the natural gas flowing again. Russia has accused Ukraine of siphoning off gas, which runs from Mother Russia through Ukraine and into Europe, where some areas are very, very cold. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Karl Rove’s Ukrainian Sojourn

Staff / Truthdig Aug 16, 2008 Since Karl Rove skipped out on his subpoena to appear before the House Judiciary Committee last month, the whereabouts of Bush's longtime political strategist have emerged -- Rove was in Crimea, Ukraine, for the fifth annual Yalta European Strategy summit. Also in attendance: former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

McCain Sounds the Alarm on Georgia

Staff / Truthdig Aug 12, 2008 John McCain comes off as the tough-talking hard-liner in this Financial Times story about the Russia-Georgia conflict. Even more of a hard-liner than President Bush, who ever-so-reluctantly came around to agreeing with McCain on Monday after initially taking "a much more diluted stance" (just like Barack Obama), as John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, put it in the FT article's completely unsurprising conclusion. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Bush to NATO: War Takes Time

Staff / Truthdig Apr 2, 2008 As the train that is the Bush administration begins to slow, the president has attended his last ever NATO summit. Speaking to alliance leaders Wednesday, Bush asked for patience and resolve to "finish the fight" in Afghanistan, a war now in its seventh year. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Mass Grave Discovered in Ukraine

Staff / Truthdig Jun 5, 2007 During construction of a gas pipeline in southern Ukraine, workers found a mass grave containing the remains of thousands of Jews near an old concentration camp. A similar site was found last year, containing 3,500 victims. Representatives from the Jewish community say there are between 250 and 700 such graves in Ukraine, which explains why many have eluded discovery for so long. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Ukraine Power Struggle Escalates

Staff / Truthdig May 26, 2007 For months now, Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych have been at loggerheads, but their tug-of-war has gotten more intense in the last 48 hours. On Friday, Yanukovych declared that the "use of force scenario" was underway as Yuschenko threatened to take charge of 40,000 troops, the BBC reports. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )