Maria Danilova

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Ukraine’s leader gains stature with honest image

Maria Danilova · May 10, 2014 8:57 am

An elderly man marches in front of an amateur band while local citizens gather to mark May Day in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, May 1, 2014. Russian state news media were quick to dismiss the protests as the work of Ukrainian neo-Nazis, a particularly loaded accusation because Ukrainian nationalists collaborating with the Nazis are blamed for horrific reprisal attacks during World War II. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Despite Russia crisis, Ukraine hopeful for future

Maria Danilova · May 1, 2014 7:44 pm

A pro Ukrainian man chants slogans against Russian president Vladimir Putin, during a pro Ukraine rally in Donetsk, Ukraine, Monday, April 28, 2014. About a thousand pro-Russian activists armed with sticks and steel rods attacked the participants of pro-Ukrainian rally in center of Donetsk. Ukraine's acting government and the West have accused Russia of orchestrating the unrest, which they fear Moscow could use as a pretext for an invasion.(AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

Ukraine mayor shot; US announces new sanctions

Maria Danilova · April 28, 2014 10:07 pm

National Security

Ukraine feels nervous as big powers debate fate

Maria Danilova · April 8, 2014 9:19 am

FILE - In this file photo taken on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014, Olesya Zhukovska, left, is helped after being shot in her neck by a sniper bullet, in Independence Square, the epicenter of the country's current unrest, Kiev, Ukraine. "I am dying", Olesya Zhukovska, a 21-year-old volunteer medic, wrote on Twitter, minutes after she got shot in the neck by a sniper's bullet as deadly clashes broke out in the center of the Ukrainian capital between protesters and police. The tweet, accompanied by a photo of her clutching her bleeding neck and being led away under fire, went viral, as social media users around the world presumed she had died and shared their grief and anger. Authorities in Ukraine said on Thursday that they have detained several members of an elite riot police unit on suspicion of shooting protesters during bloody anti-government clashes in February that left more than 100 dead. (AP Photo/Alexander Sherbakov, File)

Ukraine: Yanukovych ordered snipers to shoot

Maria Danilova · April 3, 2014 9:54 pm

FILE - In this Sunday, March 9, 2014 file photo a young Ukrainian woman holds a Ukrainian flag during celebrations of the 200th birthday anniversary of Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko in the Black Sea port of Odessa, Ukraine. The monument to the poet is in the background. Ukraine, a land the size of France with a population of 46 million, has historically been a massive prize in the heart of Europe. The site of the ancient Slavic state, the Kievan Rus, it was the regional cradle of Orthodox Christianity. Over centuries, parts of Ukraine have belonged to Poland, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Russia and the Soviet Union. (AP Photo/ Sergei Poliakov, File)

Conflict with Russia galvanizes Ukraine’s identity

Maria Danilova · March 30, 2014 11:23 am

Ukraine nationalist antics seen as gift to Russia

Maria Danilova · March 21, 2014 10:16 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree recognizing Crimea as a "sovereign and independent country." (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

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Vladimir Putin declares Crimea ‘sovereign and independent’

Maria Danilova · March 17, 2014 4:00 am

In this photo taken Tuesday, March 11, 2014, a member of the Right Sector stands alongside a donation box outside a store which the group is occupying near Kiev's Independence Square, Ukraine. Several weeks after mass protests ousted Russian-leaning President Viktor Yanukovych, hundreds of members of the radical ultranationalist group, the Right Sector, continue to patrol central streets and occupy buildings in Kiev, while some more radical members have burst into regional government offices, brandishing rifles, harassing bureaucrats and even punching a prosecutor. (AP Photo/David Azia)

After Ukraine protest, radical group eyes power

Maria Danilova · March 14, 2014 11:39 am

A man looks at the posters during the International poster campaign to support Ukraine in center Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, March, 12, 2014. U.S. President Barack Obama is hosting the new Ukrainian prime minister at the White House on Wednesday a gesture aimed at rebuking Russia and cementing the West's allegiance to Ukraine's fledgling government. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine accuses Russia of military buildup

Maria Danilova · March 12, 2014 5:57 pm

Crimea’s parliament pushes for independence

Maria Danilova · March 11, 2014 2:36 pm

Ukraine oligarchs get key posts in bid for unity

Maria Danilova · March 7, 2014 8:50 am