She has covered Ukraine, Russia ... the collapse of the Soviet Union and its communist system. Russian soldiers began raising Soviet-era red flags in occupied areas of Ukraine in the spring ...

Every year on 26 June, the Day of the Crimean Tatar Flag is celebrated in Ukraine. This is a blue flag with a yellow ... s repression of the Crimean Tatars and the introduction of the communist regime ...

4 Elections in March 1990 fractured the Communist Party's monopoly on ... in Kyiv. 11 Both Ukrainian and European flags are seen during a pro-independence rally in Kyiv. 12 The historic ballot ...

The Communist Party was banned in Estonia and Lithuania ... After the declaration of independence, democratic lawmakers carry the hitherto banned Ukrainian blue and yellow flag into parliament. At a ...

There was a time when being a Communist sympathizer ... “The people of Ukraine, they’re survivors, too, and putting up their flag, well, that’s a small token. But it’s something I could ...

(c) Inna Sokolovska / Demotix.On 16 December, a Kyiv district administrative court approved a claim by Ukraine’s Ministry of Justice. It sought to ban the country’s Communist Party (KPU).

Ukraine declared independence on Aug. 24, 1991, a few days after communist hard-liners tried ... waving Ukraine’s blue-and-yellow flag and flashing three-finger signs standing for the fork ...