RFE/RL BELARUS, UKRAINE, AND MOLDOVA REPORT
19.02.2013
A review of RFE/RL reporting and analysis about Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova.
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A Belarusian man, Mikalay Shpak, has reunited with his family after what he says was a daring escape from forced labor in Russia. Shpak left Belarus to work in Russia in 2001 and hadn't been in touch with his family since 2005. More The Belarusian Justice Ministry has refused to legally register a homosexual rights organization in Minsk. More  Belarus: Sannikau's Wife To Leave The wife of former Belarusian presidential candidate Andrey Sannikau has been allowed to temporarily leave Belarus. More Alena Seliakh rescues orphaned wolf pups in the forests near Braslau, in northern Belarus, and raises them together with her family. Her work has become an ecotourism business where visitors can meet these wild animals close up. But Alena says the wolves offer her much more than a livelihood: They also teach her something about human character. More  In Belarus's First Celebrity Trial, Fashion Designer Faces Fraud Charges Belarus's most renowned fashion designer is facing fraud charges in the country's first celebrity trial. More  In Belarus, Mobile Grocer Provides Crucial Lifeline RFE/RL's Belarus Service made midwinter visits to a handful of villages outside Minsk that have no grocery stores. Residents around Vialeyka, around 100 kilometers northwest of the capital, instead get their groceries from an "autalauka," a sort of mobile shop that was more widespread throughout the Soviet Union decades ago. (12 PHOTOS) More  Transdniester Talks End In Lviv Diplomats have met in the Ukrainian city of Lviv to discuss the frozen conflict in Moldova's Transdniester region. More  Transdniester Talks Set To Resume Diplomats are gathering in the Ukrainian city of Lviv for the next round of talks on Moldova's frozen conflict with its separatist Transdniester region. More  UN Publishes Transdniester Report The United Nations has made public its first report on the human rights situation in Moldova's breakaway Transdniester region. More  EU Still Wants Ukraine Deal EU foreign ministers have stressed the readiness of the European Union to sign an association agreement with Ukraine at the Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius in November. More  Yushchenko On Party Roller-Coaster The Kyiv city organization of the Nasha Ukraina (Our Ukraine) party excluded party leader and former President Viktor Yushchenko in a decision that was overturned hours later by the party's political council. More  At Home With The Ukrainian Boy Who Netted A 'Monster' RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service tracked down the aspiring Ukrainian biologist who stayed up late on a school night recently to help North American scientists net a rare video. More A court in Ukraine has ruled that former Tajik Prime Minister Abdumalik Abdullojonov can be held in detention for up to 40 days while authorities await documents from Dushanbe regarding his possible extradition. More  Klitschko, Allies Get Physical In Ukrainian Parliament Push has come to shove again in the Ukrainian parliament, where opposition lawmakers have been physically blocking the podium for a full day and say their protest could go on indefinitely. More In Donetsk, Ukraine, 14-year-old Kirill Dudko recently made an undersea discovery. While watching a Canadian live-streamed video broadcast from the sea floor, Kirill noticed an unusual creature devouring a fish. When he wrote to the scientists in search of information, they identified it as an elephant seal hunting almost 1 kilometer under the surface. The Canadians were thrilled at the Donetsk youngster's discovery, which led them to the first-ever images of one of the world's deepest-diving mammals at work so far underwater. As RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service found out, Kirill himself can barely believe he helped make a scientific breakthrough. More  Former Tajik PM Detained In Ukraine Former Tajik Prime Minister Abdumalik Abdullojonov has been detained at Boryspil Airport in Ukraine on an international arrest warrant. More |
