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Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko arrives at a Kyiv court. Prosecutors are appealing against a bail decision freeing the ex-Ukrainian president, who is accused of treason. Poroshenko's lawyers are expected to call for his passport to be returned, which was withheld by the court to prevent him from leaving the country. IMAGES
One of the more interesting social experiments that has been conducted within international politics is celebrating its’ first year anniversary. Mikheil Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia, is currently the governor of a region in another country: in Ukraine. While still in office in Georgia, Saakashvili was praised for his corruption-cutting reforms, but by the time he left, his popularity had plummeted and he stood accused of authoritarianism. But when Ukraine's President Petro Porosh
As Kiev and pro-Russian rebels engage in a fragile ceasefire, Christophe Robeet speaks to Ukraine's Ambassador to the EU. Kostyantyn Yeliseyev says that Russia is seeking to derail the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and warns that a "Bosnian scenario" for eastern Ukraine will not be an acceptable outcome to the current crisis.
Ukraine's government has regained control of several rebel-held towns in the country's restive southeast. But as Ukraine's president has acknowledged, the battle is far from over. Kiev could face tougher fighting in the regional capital of Donetsk, where rebels are regrouping. Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin examines the situation.
The world-renowned Ukrainian writer, Andrei Kurkov just steps from Kiev's "Maidan", or Independence Square. He put aside the novel he was working on and, starting last November 21 - the night of the first pro-European rallies in Maidan - through the end of April, he chronicled the tumultuous events unfolding before his eyes. His diary of those fraught few months has been published in Franceand Germany. An English-language translation is set to hit the bookshops next month.
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