Kiev (Kiev Oblast, Ukraine)

Two guidebooks that helped us survive: Ukraine: The Bradt Travel Guide, and especially Lonely Planet Ukraine because it fits in a hip pocket and is easy to grab when you need a Russian/Ukrainian word or phrase. ** Rail service in Ukraine is cheap and...

BelgiumBelgian and European aviation authorities have concluded that security needs tightening at Brussels' Zaventem Airport. Studies found that security exams of checked and carry-on luggage were not thorough enough and that staff members with no...

ON ITS FACE, North Korea's announcement that it plans to return to the six-party nuclear talks marks a victory of sorts for diplomacy. Working with its allies, the United States fashioned a package of U.N. resolutions, economic sanctions and the threat of...

Today's question: Did the U.S. overplay its hand in Eastern Europe when Russia was weak and reeling from the collapse of the Soviet Union? Previously, Moynihan and Meier discussed the extent to which Russia wants to exert control over former Soviet...

DONETSK, Ukraine — The campaign spokesman in eastern Ukraine for presidential hopeful Viktor Yushchenko sits alone in a small office, barricaded behind double locks and closed blinds. Far off to the west in Kiev, the capital, Yushchenko has drawn...

As I traveled the narrow, two-lane roads on the way to Dubno, it felt like riding backward in time. Horse-drawn wagons loaded with hay lumbered along bumpy dirt paths. Wooden shacks, which looked as though they were built a century ago, seemed about to...

On the frigid evening of Feb. 15, 2001, a silver-haired woman who stood less than 5 feet tall packed some skirts, blouses and underwear into two brown shopping bags. She put on her gray winter coat, locked the door to her Skokie home and fled. After she...