Peter Leonard
The Associated Press
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Tajikistan vote allows president to rule indefinitely
People in the Central Asian nation of Tajikistan have voted overwhelmingly to approve changes to the Constitution allowing the longtime authoritarian president to rule indefinitely, election... → Read More
Ukraine's self-defense units look for the enemy within
ODESSA, Ukraine (AP) — Striding through headquarters, Todor Panevsky gleefully announced that comrades in his self-defense unit had detained a pro-Russian separatist sympathizer in this picturesque port city. → Read More
Shelling in east Ukraine kills at least three civilians
At least three civilians have been killed in east Ukraine in a further surge in shelling in several locations along the front line, government and rebel officials said Wednesday. → Read More
2 civilians killed in surge of shelling in east Ukraine
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — At least three civilians have been killed in east Ukraine in a further surge in shelling in several locations along the front line, government and rebel officials said Wednesday. Reports of casualties… → Read More
Amnesty says torture of Ukraine war prisoners is rife
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Both warring sides in eastern Ukraine are perpetrating war crimes almost daily, including torturing prisoners and summarily killing them, the Amnesty International rights group said in a report Friday.… → Read More
Amnesty says torture of Ukraine war prisoners is rife
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Both warring sides in eastern Ukraine are perpetrating war crimes almost daily, including torturing prisoners and summarily killing them, the Amnesty International rights group said in a report Friday. → Read More
Ukraine erases communist reminders as it tries to ditch past
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A hulking steel statue of a victorious female warrior bearing aloft sword and shield looms in dour majesty over the Ukrainian capital. The Motherland Monument's shield bears the Communist hammer-and-sickle,… → Read More
Hammer and Sick of It: Ukraine tries to ditch communist past
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A hulking steel statue of a victorious female warrior bearing aloft sword and shield looms in dour majesty over the Ukrainian capital. → Read More
Ukraine president says almost 7,000 civilians killed in war
Nearly 7,000 civilians have been killed in the war in eastern Ukraine between government forces and Russian-backed separatists, the nation's president said Friday. → Read More
Ukraine's president says almost 7,000 civilians killed by war with separatists in the east
KIEV, Ukraine - Nearly 7,000 civilians have been killed in the war in eastern Ukraine between government forces and Russian-backed separatists, the nation's president said Friday.Speaking before parliament, Petro Poroshenko said that more than 1,000 people remained unaccounted for. → Read More
Ukraine president says almost 7,000 civilians killed in war
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Nearly 7,000 civilians have been killed in the war in eastern Ukraine between government forces and Russian-backed separatists, the nation's president said Friday. Speaking before parliament, Petro… → Read More
Kazakhstan votes for continuity while keeping eye on Ukraine
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — As oil-rich Kazakhstan votes for a president Sunday, the governing elite is pounding home a mantra of stability as fears percolate about the country's massive Russian minority taking inspiration… → Read More
Amnesty International accuses Ukraine separatists of killing captured government soldiers
KIEV, Ukraine - Amnesty International said Thursday that it has evidence that Russian-backed separatists in east Ukraine have killed several captured government soldiers in gross violation of international humanitarian law. → Read More
Ukraine's president dismisses powerful regional governor
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko dismissed the billionaire governor of an eastern region Wednesday following a rancorous dispute pitting the tycoon against the government. Poroshenko's office said… → Read More
Crimea exiles fight to keep Ukraine unity message alive
SHCHASLYVE, Ukraine (AP) — The tormentors stuck scotch tape to his eyes and locked him in a dank room. For 11 days, Andrei Schekun said, they beat him, shocked him with electrodes and scalded him with burning metallic… → Read More
Crimea exiles fight to keep Ukraine unity message alive
The tormentors stuck scotch tape to his eyes and locked him in a dank room. For 11 days, Andrei Schekun said, they beat him, shocked him with electrodes and scalded him with burning metallic plates. → Read More
Blast hits march in eastern Ukraine, killing 2
A bomb blast killed two at a march in east Ukraine on Sunday on the first anniversary of the ouster of the country's Russia-friendly president, a gruesome counterpoint to the hopes spawned by a... → Read More
Blast hits march in eastern Ukraine, killing 2
A bomb blast killed two at a march in east Ukraine on Sunday on the first anniversary of the ouster of the country's Russia-friendly president, a gruesome counterpoint to the hopes spawned by a... → Read More
As ravaged Ukraine town regains peace, fear of war remains
Almost every building was gravely damaged, nearly every window smashed in this Ukrainian town left unrecognizable by months of relentless shelling. Children played in the rubble where their homes... → Read More
Cossack fighters laugh, hug, pose for pictures as they take control of key east Ukrainian town
DEBALTSEVE, Ukraine - Rebel fighters, many of them Cossacks, roamed the streets of Debaltseve on Thursday, a day after Ukrainian forces began withdrawing from the besieged town. → Read More