A team of Jewish ritual butchers traveled to Ukraine to slaughter some 10,000 chickens for the participants of the annual Rosh Hashanah festivities in Uman, the burial site of Hassidic leader Rebbe Nachman of Breslov. Read more here. The post The Jer...

Russian officials have made extraordinary claims that America and other high-powered countries rigged the Tokyo Olympics against them. Read more here. The post Yahoo! News: Russia’s explosive claims that America ‘rigged’ Tokyo Olymp...

Russia-backed separatists in Donbas again violated the ceasefire and fired two times at the positions of the Ukrainian army, two soldiers have been wounded, the press center of the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) headquarters reported. “As a resul...

Russia’s economy grew at the fastest quarterly pace since 2000 as it bounced back from coronavirus lockdowns last year. Read more here. The post Bloomberg: Russian economy grew fastest since 2000 on lockdown rebound appeared first on KyivPost.

The Delta variant, the highly transmissible version of the coronavirus that now makes up almost all new cases in the United States, continues to drive a surge throughout the country, with average new cases topping 100,000 for the past week. Read more...

All passengers and workers on commercial air flights in Canada will soon have to prove they’ve been vaccinated against the coronavirus. Canada’s government will also require all federal workers to be vaccinated, citing a “dynamic pu...

Few realise that Ukraine was an important country in the development of cinema. It’s capital Kyiv was one of the cultural centres of the Soviet Union, and the Russian Empire before it. During the proliferation of cinema in the 1920s and 1930s, Kyiv...

A top U.S. diplomat has called on Belarus to stop allowing migrants to illegally cross into Lithuania and other neighboring countries. Read more here. The post RFE/RL: US diplomat calls on Lukashenko to stop ‘irregular migrant flows’ appe...

The arrest of a British embassy worker in Berlin this week has focused attention on “old-school” methods of espionage, eclipsed in the public eye by hacking and satellite surveillance in the digital era. Read more here. The post The Times: Russia...

Russia has refused to renew a visa for a BBC journalist in Moscow, effectively expelling her from the country. Read more here. The post RFE/RL: BBC condemns ‘assault on media freedom’ after Russia expels Moscow correspondent appeared firs...