Yuras Karmanau

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AP reporter witnesses carnage in Ukrainian capital

Yuras Karmanau · February 20, 2014 10:59 pm

An anti-government protester carries a shield as he runs on the outskirts of Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, on Thursday. (AP/Marko Drobnjakovic)

Truce fails, 22 more die in new Kiev clashes

Yuras Karmanau · February 20, 2014 5:00 am

Demonstrators angered by more than two months of anti-government protests in Kiev gather on Khreschatyk street in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014. Thousands of people angered by months of anti-government protests in the Ukrainian capital converged on one of the protesters' barricades Saturday, but retreated after meeting sizeable resistance. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Kiev warns of terrorism threat amid protests

Yuras Karmanau · February 9, 2014 3:20 pm

Anti-government protesters, wearing protective head gear, prepare to rally in Kiev's Independence Square, the epicenter of the country's current unrest, in Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. A senior U.S. diplomat has arrived in the Ukrainian capital to try to help find a resolution to the protests and political crisis that have gripped the country for more than two months. The U.S. Embassy says Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland is to meet President Viktor Yanukovych and leaders of the opposition during her two days in Kiev. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Top US diplomat comes to Kiev for talks

Yuras Karmanau · February 6, 2014 4:28 pm

Riot police line up as seen through protesters' barricades in central Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014. Ukraine's embattled president Viktor Yanukovych is taking sick leave as the country's political crisis continues without signs of resolution. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Radicals a wild card in Ukraine’s protests

Yuras Karmanau · February 2, 2014 12:17 pm

A stray cat leaves a house through a hole in an iron panel covering a basement window in the Belarusian capital Minsk, Monday, Feb. 4, 2013. Municipal authorities in Belarus have walled up stray cats in basements in compliance with Soviet-era regulations, dooming them to death of hunger. But some residents made holes for cats to escape. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Activists: Stray cats dying in Belarus basements

Yuras Karmanau · February 5, 2013 5:00 am

In this Monday, Dec. 3, 2012 photo Vladimir Dodonov, 37, speaks in the town of Borisov, 70 km (44 miles) east of Minsk, Belarus. Vladimir Dodonov wants to flee Belarus for neighboring Russia before it becomes illegal to leave his job at a wood-processing plant, whose surrounding high walls are topped with barbed wire. Belarus' authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, has decided to stem an exodus of qualified workers to Russia, starting by banning those who work in wood-processing industries from quitting. Critics have compared the measure to serfdom and warned that it would only deepen the former Soviet republic's economic troubles and fuel protests against Lukashenko. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Belarusian ruler introduces forced employment

Yuras Karmanau · December 5, 2012 4:22 pm

Chairman of the Ukrainian democratic opposition Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform Party and WBC Heavyweight Champion boxer, Vitali Klitschko speaks to the media during his press conference in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Ukrainians are electing a parliament on Sunday in a crucial vote tainted by the jailing of top opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko and fears of election fraud. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine’s ruling party leads in vote called biased

Maria Danilova, Yuras Karmanau · October 29, 2012 4:00 am