Mykhailo Zubar

June 24 saw the third regular rotation of the Ukrainian special UN peacekeeping police force in Kosovo. Shortly earlier, the 112 dog squad policemen, members of the rapid deployment unit, and future UN police observers awaiting the flight to Gniljani (Ukrainian policemen see service in the US...

It seems likely that, following a radical building boom on Khreshchatyk and Independence Square, construction in Kyiv is assuming grandiose proportions, giving rise to a peculiar tradition of embarking on large-scale construction projects as soon as the warm season sets in. The wave of construction...

A Seat car carrying three armed criminals and a female hostage entered Ukraine from Poland at 12:05 on April 3 through the Dorohusk-Yahodyn border checkpoint. Earlier, the alleged wrongdoers had robbed a bank in Wellssen (Germany), Ukrayina.ru reports. German police representative Horst Kasten said...

The people’s deputies of Verkhovna Rada gathered for their farewell session last Thursday. The whole affair reminded one of a high school senior prom or maybe more like a university graduation ball. While everybody attends a senior prom, university students may miss the graduation banquet if busy...

Last Monday twenty-four illegal migrants detained last year on the territory of Ukraine were deported home by flight 102 bound for Delhi via Tashkent. Tellingly, it is the first deportation of such a large group of illegal aliens. As Volodymyr Tunik, chief of the anti-illegal migration section at...

Last week the Mykolayiv local lore museum received a number of artifacts originally stolen from an archeological dig in Olvia, site of an ancient Greek settlement and now an archeological and historical preserve. All these things were originally seized as material exhibits by the State Security...

The forthcoming April Fool’s Day is sure to be important for Ukrainians. In addition to the early news about the election returns, April 1 will mean the deadline for declaring additional income (exceeding UAH 993 [$190]) earned last year apart from one’s regular place of employment. But, as...

The first court hearings in a lawsuit against the Security Service of Ukraine, SBU, and the Prosecutor General’s Office filed by parents of Yury Mozola who was killed in 1996 while kept in a pretrial detention center was held by the Franko District Court in Lviv. The twelve-minute hearing on the...

Over the past several months, the Prosecutor General’s Office has returned about UAH 27 million [$5 million], Prosecutor General Mykhailo Potebenko stated at a March 12 news conference in Kyiv. According to him, in addition to the well-known “big” criminal cases, some 170 “economic” ones have been...

For almost a year and a half Rustam Ibrahimov has started every morning by visiting the canteen to pick food and deliver it to solitary elderly persons, helping them with household chores, or just keeping them company. Outwardly everything is simple. The young man works for the Kyiv social service...