Ukraine
25/03/2013 / UKRAINE
Striking videos of Ukraine's snow-hit capital, Kiev
Ukraine is dealing with the aftermath of a massive blizzard, during which a month's worth of snow fell in just 24 hours. Residents of the capital Kiev have been using their cameras and mobile phones to capture the the ensuing chaos. Watch videos…
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24/12/2012 / UKRAINE
A motley crew of angry citizens try to storm Odessa’s city hall
After a four-month break, Odessa’s city council got back down to business on Friday. While it may not have been the end of the world that day – as the Mayans had predicted – it certainly must have seemed like all hell had broken loose after dozens of angry citizens, with a wide variety of grievances, tried to barge into Odessa’s city hall to disrupt the councillors’ meeting. Read more...
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30/10/2012 / UKRAINE
Videos show evidence of voting violations in Ukraine
Several organisations have decried the legislative elections held Sunday in Ukraine as tainted by fraud. Our Observer, thanks to video evidence, confirms this, and explains the different types of violations that took place. Read more...
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06/06/2012 / Ukraine
Euro 2012 Ukraine: 'It will be much too dangerous for black people to go out on game nights'
With just a few days left before the start of the European football championship, which runs from June 8 to July 1 in Ukraine and in Poland, many people are warning about the possibility of racist attacks on fans in countries known for having active xenophobic groups. We asked two of our Observers in Ukraine whether they are worried. Read more...
27/04/2012 / UKRAINE
Ukraine blast eyewitness: “It felt like an earthquake”
At least 27 people were wounded on Friday in a series of blasts in Dnipropetrovsk, a city in central Ukraine. Our Observer, who was there at the moment of the explosions, told us what he saw. Read more…
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26/01/2012 / UKRAINE
Ukrainian newspaper depicts Africans and Arabs as monkeys groping woman
A local newspaper in the western Ukrainian city of Ternopil illustrated its front-page story on Tuesday with a photomontage of monkeys groping a woman to depict African and Arab men who had allegedly gotten into a bar fight. Our Observer, a Congolese student living in Ternopil, tells us this has deeply upset African students at his university, who he says are frequently the target of racist attacks. Read more…
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25/11/2011 / UKRAINE
‘Darth Vader’ demands free land from Ukrainian government
Donning a long black cloak and a plastic light sabre, a man disguised as Darth Vader clambered up the stone steps leading to the city hall of the Ukrainian port city of Odessa. Irked by news that Odessa’s mayor had redistributed public land for private use, the “Star Wars” villain had come to claim a piece of it as his own. Read more…
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16/09/2011 / WORLD
The week in amateur videos: a motorcycle miracle, brave bridge climbers and more
Silly, amazing or shocking things happen every day, all over the world – and in our era of video phones and high-speed internet, chances are they’ll be caught on camera and broadcast across the globe. Watch videos...
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25/07/2011 / UKRAINE
YouTube keeps a check on unruly sons of Ukraine’s elite
Some of the offspring of Ukraine’s leaders seem to be a particularly unruly bunch. Hardly a month goes by without Ukrainian newspapers reporting on their outrageous – if not downright unlawful – behaviour. But in today's era of security cameras and viral online videos, their actions have less chance of going by unnoticed and unpunished. Read more...
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21/04/2011 / UKRAINE
Chernobyl: radioactive jungle...and new tourist hot spot
Nearly a quarter of a century has passed since the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl. The ill-fated power plant lies abandoned in a jungle of overgrown weeds and forest, like an apocalyptic sci-fi movie set. Yet the site of the world’s biggest nuclear catastrophe is attracting a growing number of tourists. Read more…
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