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Maxim Tucker

Maxim Tucker is a Ukraine-based journalist reporting for Newsweek, The Times and the BBC*.* The former news editor of the Kyiv Post, he previously worked as Amnesty International's Campaigner on Ukraine and the South Caucasus and has spent most of the past six years working on and in the former Soviet Union. @MaxRTucker

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Opinion

Why Are Six U.S. Senators Bolstering Thugs in the Balkans?

The assault on USAID–backed soft-power agencies has been ignored by Trump and Tillerson.

9 min read

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Ukraine Says Pro-Russia Rebels Are Building a Dirty Bomb

The pro-Russian separatists have access to a radioactive bunker. Kiev fears they plan to weaponize it.

11 min read

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Meet Eliot Higgins, Putin’s MH17 Nemesis

A gaming nerd’s discovery about the downed Malaysian airliner has made him an enemy of the Russian state.

7 min read

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Ethiopian Jews Rally Against Prejudice and Police Brutality in Tel Aviv

Israeli Ethiopians address their anger over racism and violence from the police by staging a protest

6 min read

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Analysis

Ukraine claims to foil Kremlin plot for new breakaway state

Ukrainian officials say they have prevented Russian authorities from organising another separatist uprising

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World

Thanks to the police force, Kiev’s sex trade is booming

The city’s very own ‘vice squad’ has long profited from the multi-million dollar sex industry.

6 min read

Polio in Ukraine

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Millions of Ukrainian Children at Risk From New Epidemics

Vaccination rates have fallen dramatically in the last few years, and the conflict is making things worse.

3 min read

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych

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Ukraine’s Old Guard and the Mystery of a Series of Unlikely Suicides

At least eight people linked to Viktor Yanukovych’s party have been found dead, and the Ukrainian government doesn’t want to talk about it.

7 min read

Odessa

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Three Arrested in Ukraine Over Bombing Campaign

Eight attacks have occurred in the Ukrainian town of Odessa since September.

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Criminal Activity

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Russia Launches Next Deadly Phase of Hybrid War on Ukraine

Moscow’s spy agencies have started a campaign of bomb attacks to create panic and instability across Ukraine.

6 min read

Poroshenko

World

Ukrainian President’s Company Accused of Intimidation by UK Firm

The director of architecture firm Jones East8 resigned in tears and left the country following a mysterious phonecall.

4 min read

Ukraine paramedic

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One Paramedic’s War in Ukraine, From Maidan to Debaltseve

Law student Alik Sardarian tended to the injured during the Maidan uprising before reluctantly going to war.

8 min read

Poroshenko

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Explosive Court Case Puts Ukraine’s Chocolate King in Dock

The West believes it can do business with Ukraine’s multi-millionaire president Poroshenko – but a British firm of architects begs to differ.

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30 Years On, the World’s Worst Industrial Disaster Continues to Blight Bhopal

The failure to clean up chemicals abandoned during the Bhopal gas leak has become a toxic issue

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