Ukraine

<p><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Today, Nadiya Savchenko</span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> has been taken for psychological expertise which can take up to 30 days, <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.hromadske.tv/society/oskarzhennya-psikhiatrichnoyi-ekspertizi-savchenko/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hromadske</a></span> reports.</span></p>

<p><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">On 15 September, Kateryna Valevskaya started her trip all over Ukraine.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #141823; line-height: 20px;"><strong>By Aleksandra Demskaya (EMPR)</strong>: Odesa self-defence holds exercises for all those who want to protect the country and city if needed. </span></span></p>

Lech Wałęsa came to Kyiv and visited Ukrainian servicemen in hospital today, unian reports.

<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica; line-height: 20px;"><strong>By Aleksandra Demskaya (EMPR):</strong> </span>Odesa is well known for its peculiar sense of humour. Odesa residents have their own humouristic approach to dealing with the existing problems. </span></span></p>

<p><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">A year ago, Ukraine was about as exciting as Uzbekistan. Now, it’s a market driver. </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">The Market Vectors Russia exchange traded fund (RSX) is on its way to the teens unless r</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">ivals Vladimir Putin and Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine’s president, can hug it out mighty quick. Seeing how this is an unlikely scenario in the near term, markets are betting on the bear case.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-family: helvetica; color: #000000;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Roman was a student of the Carpathian University in the psychology department, Aleksej Gerasimow reports on his <strong><a style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=811741472182737&set=a.462148233808731.106785.100000406743020&type=1&theater" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FB</a></strong>. Roman was shot in a temple by a sniper on February 20 on vul. Instytutska when, armed only with a</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; line-height: 20px;"> metal shield, he was in the front line figthing for a better tomorrow for his homeland.</span></span></p>

<p><span style="color: #000000; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Ukrainian roofer Mustang sold one of the athletic shoes he was wearing when he painted blue and yellow a star on the Moscow high-rise building on the Independence Day of Ukraine. </span></span></p>

Odesa, 19 February 2014 – peaceful activists rallying against killings at Maidan were severely beaten by dozens of ‘titushky’ wearing black outfit and helmets and equipped with clubs near the Odesa State Administration. Beating is believed to be organized by Mykola Skoryk, who was the governor of Odesa Oblast and member of Yanukovich’s Party of Regions at that time.

<p><span style="font-family: helvetica; color: #000000;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">260 internally displaced people from Donbas are staying in Speranza sanatorium in 80km from Odesa. Among them 120 epileptics and 90 children with ICP. </span></span></p>

<p><span class="userContent">They arrive on September 25 late at night cheered and welcomed by Odesa residents. Some of them haven’t been to their homes since April. They look really tired and out of this world, but at <span class="text_exposed_show">the same time </span></span></p>

<p><span class="userContent">Georgiy Gongadze - founder of <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2014/09/16/7037953/view_print/">Ukrainska Pravda</a></span> - disappeared 14 years ago on September 16. Later it was found that Gongadze was killed on 17 September. </span></p>