Five years later, a shadow of his wrongdoings still hangs over Ukraine’s current politics and business. Moreover, some key figures of his regime still have influence in Ukraine. Euromaidan Press checked what happened to the main actors...
U.S. special counsel Robert Muller has charged Alex Van Der Zwaan, an attorney and son-in-law of an influential Russian oligarch, for making false statements to the FBI and his office. Muller is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016...
On January 22, ZIK TV aired a controversial interview with Andriy Portnov, a key member of the Yanukovych regime. Many viewers objected to the channel’s decision to air the program and to the softball questioning by interviewer...
On July 5, former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych who stands charged with high treason in Ukraine said he will not participate in the in-absentia treason trial. The hearing was scheduled to resume in Kyiv on June 6 while the...
Three years have passed since Petro Poroshenko was inaugurated as President of Ukraine. Only two years of his presidential term are left. The closer to the end, the more talk there is that Poroshenko is following the path of the runaway...
The photo above says it all. Soviet era façades. The blonde in an expensive ski jacket. The bloodied body on the sidewalk next to a luxury car. It’s the stuff of post-Soviet pulp novels. On Thursday, Denys Voronenkov, a Russian...
On 23 March 2017, exiled Russian ex-MP Denis Voronenkov was assassinated in central Kyiv near the hotel from which he was departing together with his bodyguard to a meeting with another exiled Russian ex-MP Ilya Ponomaryov. Both are...
He was one of key witness in Yanukovych case. In October 2016 Voronenkov and his family fled to Ukraine. He agreed to testify in Victor Yanukovych’s case on state treason in Ukrainian court. His testimony reportedly supplemented the one...
February 22 was mostly quiet in the Donbas according to reports by local residents on social networks. All their reports originated from the Donetsk sector, none from Luhansk and Mariupol. A quiet morning (all time EET, GMT+2): 01:07...
The Russian plan was to lure Yanukovych out of Ukraine and turn him into a hostage. And this was not a new plan. When on March 3, 2014, Vitaly Churkin, the Russian permanent representative to the UN, showed a letter from Viktor Yanukovych...
The three-month campaign leading up to the spring presidential elections officially started on 31 December 2018. According to current polls, no single candidate stands out. Among leading candidates, however, most can be classified as...
