Ukraine’s "orange revolution" is a genuine outpouring of popular sentiment for freedom and justice. It’s a media-savvy revolution, almost like a democracy festival, aimed at winning the sympathy

In late 2002, Viktor Yushchenko (Our Ukraine), Oleksandr Moroz (Socialist Party of Ukraine), Petro Symonenko (Communist Party of Ukraine) and Yulia Tymoshenko (Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc) issued a joint statement concerning "the beginning of a state revolution in Ukraine".

Russia seized the peninsula from Ukraine after pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych was deposed in Kiev in February 2014, and the loss of Crimea is a deep wound for Ukrainians.

Ukrainian state agencies have ignored the purchase of assets in Ukraine that formerly belonged to Russian oil company Rosneft by a businessman close to Medvedchuk.

KYIV, Ukraine—Four years ago this week, central Kyiv resembled a quieted urban battlefield. Ukraine’s capital city was, at that time, reeling from months of street protests and a revolution in

"Ukraine’s lingua franca is Surzhyk, a motley mix of Ukrainian and Russian (sometimes with bits of Hungarian, Romanian and Polish). … Now that Ukrainian is the official language, Russian

The 2014 revolution set Ukraine on what many officials and experts now say is an irreversible political, economic, and cultural divorce from Moscow.

The Maidan functioned in two languages simultaneously, Ukrainian and Russian, because Kiev is a bilingual city and Ukraine is a bilingual country and Ukrainians are bilingual people.

During late 2013 and early 2014 protests in Ukraine erupted after the country’s president, Viktor Yanukovych, refused to sign a new treaty with the European Union in favor of one with Russia. The protests widened in scope dramatically to general anger toward the government, corruption and human rights s.

Aug 01, 2018 · Ukraine’s economy also lags behind its nemesis, Russia, where GDP per capita is roughly four times higher and the average wage is more than double.