Historically a cultural and architectural center, Ukraine's Chernivtsi was even dubbed Little Vienna and Jerusalem-upon-the-Prut, after a Danube tributary that runs through the city. This multicultural city is currently hosting an international poetry festival, "Meridian Czernowitz." RFE/RL speaks to one of the festival's organizers, Igor Pomerantsev.

9/4/2010 8:07:50 AM

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has departed for his first official visit to China with visa regimes and bilateral cooperation high on the agenda.

9/1/2010 11:18:26 PM

A colleague of missing Ukrainian journalist Vasyl Klymentyev has described the investigation into his disappearance as "a farce."

8/30/2010 9:31:58 AM

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she has pressed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on the issue of press freedom during a visit to Berlin.

8/30/2010 8:27:38 AM

The Crimean Tatars plan to hold a national congress, or Kurultay, this weekend to discuss perceived threats to their community and to Ukraine's territorial integrity

8/27/2010 7:09:58 AM

More than 100 Ukrainian journalists and artists have taken to the streets of Kyiv in a protest over perceived censorship on the country's television networks.

8/26/2010 10:43:27 AM

Ukraine's interior minister says he believes a journalist who was reported missing earlier this month is likely dead, and that security forces are suspected of involvement in the disappearance.

8/26/2010 8:00:50 AM

As Ukraine marks its Independence Day, Andrew Wilson, a senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, talks to RFE/RL about the high and low points of the country's 19 years of statehood.

8/24/2010 4:31:00 AM

President Viktor Yanukovych has called for the Ukrainian constitution to be reformed in order to strengthen his powers and enable him to push through potentially painful reforms.

8/23/2010 9:16:44 PM

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed concern about the safety of Ukrainian journalist Vasyl Klymentyev, who has been missing since August 11.

8/23/2010 7:35:22 AM

A museum dedicated to prominent Ukrainian poet and artist Taras Shevchenko has officially opened in his native town of Kanev in central Ukraine

8/23/2010 6:57:54 AM

The disappearance of a journalist in Ukraine is raising new questions about the deteriorating climate for press freedom since voters repudiated the Orange Revolution by electing a pro-Moscow president earlier this year.

8/18/2010 6:37:42 AM

The chief editor of a weekly newspaper based in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has been missing for nearly a week and police are investigating possible foul play.

8/17/2010 11:45:24 AM

Ukraine's Emergency Situations Ministry said today that all of the wildfires in Kyiv Oblast have been extinguished and no fire danger exists in the Chornobyl region.

8/16/2010 12:25:04 PM

Rescue workers from Tajikistan's Ministry for Emergency Situations have found two of the three Ukrainian mountaineers missing in the Pamir Mountains.

8/12/2010 1:03:04 AM

Wildfires are said to be threatening to stir radioactive particles left over from the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear disaster back into the air over western Russia.

8/11/2010 10:45:41 PM

The Ukrainian government today announced new safety measures for three large coal mines in the Donetsk, Luhansk, and Lviv oblasts in response to accidents that have killed dozens of miners.

8/9/2010 10:18:08 AM

A regional Ukrainian official has said that peat is smoldering at six locations in the Kyiv region.

8/6/2010 11:17:41 AM