Watch Kiev's Maidan Square live amid reports the Ukrainian city is under siege following an invasion by Russia. Explosions were heard in Kiev during the early hours of today (Friday), with Ukrainian ...

KIEV—Maidan is not what it used to be. The talk in Kiev is that the square has become a darker, “different Maidan,” much different than the revolutionary, democratic collective that toppled former ...

KIEV, Ukraine – The clock over Kiev's protest encampment showed 4:40 a.m. and minus-19 C (minus-2 F). Despite the brutal conditions, Alexander Kravchuk laughed lightly about how he'd ended up standing ...

Improvised barricades, shields and other protest equipment in front of St. Michael’s Church downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, April 2014 (all images courtesy the author) With a sharp tug, the soot-covered tire ...

Part 3 in a series of Portraits from Ukraine. In the Maidan, Kiev’s revolutionary square, the protests are winding down and the politicians are taking over. In the uprising of the past several months, ...

Further evidence has emerged that the deadly shootings on Independence Square (Maidan) in Kiev last February, in the final stages of the NATO-backed putsch that ousted pro-Russian Ukrainian President ...

On Monday, elements of the Ukrainian far right rioted in Kiev outside the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, as it passed a law on eastern Ukrainian autonomy. The protest was called by forces ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In Kiev’s Independence Square, the aftermath of a bloody revolution has left behind a strange beauty. Red roses adorn piles of charred black tires. A rainbow of votive candles lay before heaps of ...

KIEV, Ukraine — Behind the reefs of old tires and cobblestones that protected Ukraine's protest movement against the now- disbanded riot police, those still camped in the city's Independence Square ...

Kiev is quite literally at the center of Ukraine. It is both the geographic and political focal point of the nation, marking a harsh divide between an Eastern and Western mentality at the heart of the ...