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Byline: SABRINA TAVERNISE and NOAH SNEIDER DONETSK, Ukraine -- One was a retired cook. Another installed alarms in cars. Another was a cleaner in a grocery store who had gone [...]

DONETSK, Ukraine -- One was a retired cook. Another installed alarms in cars. Another was a cleaner in a grocery store who had gone out to buy ground beef to [...]

Byline: SABRINA TAVERNISE and NOAH SNEIDER TOREZ, Ukraine -- Days after the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, the bodies of most of those aboard have ended up here, in [...]

TOREZ, Ukraine -- In the end, they were sent off alone, without ceremony, well-wishers or anyone much beyond a handful of armed rebels on the platform. ''I feel sorry for [...]

TOREZ, Ukraine -- Three wrenching days after the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, the bodies of most of those aboard have ended up here, in a fly-infested railway station [...]

Byline: SABRINA TAVERNISE and NOAH SNEIDER DONETSK, Ukraine -- It was a weekend of love in this city of war. First came the wedding. A rebel leader wearing fatigues and [...]

DONETSK, Ukraine -- It was a weekend of love in this city of war. First came the wedding. A rebel leader wearing fatigues and a cast on his broken right [...]

Byline: NOAH SNEIDER SLOVYANSK, Ukraine -- Late one afternoon last month, as separatist militia fighters and Ukrainian forces exchanged fire, a small-time thief by the name of Aleksei B. Pichko [...]

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine -- Late one afternoon last month, as separatist militia fighters and Ukrainian forces exchanged fire, a small-time thief by the name of Aleksei B. Pichko left his home [...]

Byline: NOAH SNEIDER and C.J. CHIVERS DONETSK, Ukraine -- Antigovernment rebels ambushed a Ukrainian Army convoy outside a village west of Kramatorsk on Tuesday afternoon, further raising tensions in Ukraine's [...]

Byline: C.J. CHIVERS and NOAH SNEIDER SLOVYANSK, Ukraine -- Roughly midway through an hourlong gunfight, six high-explosive mortar rounds narrowly missed the home of Yevgeny Kharkovsky and his wife, exploding [...]

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine -- Roughly midway through an hourlong gunfight that began just after midnight Sunday, six high-explosive mortar rounds narrowly missed the home of Yevgeny Kharkovsky and his wife, exploding [...]

Byline: C. J. CHIVERS and NOAH SNEIDER SLOVYANSK, Ukraine -- Tatyana Vsevolodovna stood in the cool basement beneath her kitchen, displaying a household's preparations for war. On one shelf rested [...]

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine -- Tatyana Vsevolodovna stood in the cool basement beneath her kitchen, displaying a household's preparations for war. On one shelf rested a small backpack filled with canned fish. [...]

Byline: NOAH SNEIDER, ALAN COWELL and ANDREW E. KRAMER SLOVYANSK, Ukraine -- Gunfire echoed around the outskirts of the pro-Russian stronghold of Slovyansk in eastern Ukraine on Monday, news reports [...]

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine -- Ukrainian security forces and antigovernment rebels clashed on the edges of this rebel-controlled city on Monday as the acting president, Oleksandr V. Turchynov, said roadblocks were being [...]

Byline: C.J. CHIVERS and NOAH SNEIDER SLOVYANSK, Ukraine -- The rebel leader spread a topographic map in front of a closed grocery store here as a Ukrainian military helicopter flew [...]

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine -- The rebel leader spread a topographic map in front of a closed grocery store here as a Ukrainian military helicopter flew past a nearby hill. Ukrainian troops [...]

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine -- Two days after Ukraine's interim government declared itself all but helpless to control events in the eastern part of the country, Ukrainian military and police forces on [...]

KONSTANTINOVKA, Ukraine -- The crisis in eastern Ukraine took dark turns on Monday as the mayor of the country's second-largest city was gravely wounded in an assassination attempt and masked [...]

Byline: C. J. CHIVERS and NOAH SNEIDER SLOVYANSK, Ukraine -- The self-appointed mayor of this breakaway eastern Ukrainian city displayed eight detained members of a European military observer mission on [...]

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine -- The self-appointed mayor of this breakaway city in eastern Ukraine on Sunday displayed eight detained members of a European military observer mission and later released one for [...]

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine -- Antigovernment militants in eastern Ukraine on Saturday rebuffed international calls for the release of a group of European military observers, but suggested that they would consider a [...]

MOSCOW -- Criminal libel proceedings against Aleksei A. Navalny, Russia's most prominent opposition leader, extended into their second day on Friday, concluding without resolution. Mr. Navalny, who is currently under [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN, PATRICK REEVELL and NOAH SNEIDER BELBEK, Crimea -- Russian forces pushed to complete their expulsion of the Ukrainian military from the disputed Crimean Peninsula over the [...]

SIMFEROPOL, Crimea -- The Ukrainian marines emerged Friday from their barracks juggling awkward armfuls of personal effects: wet-weather overcoats, suitcases, potted plants, even a model ship. They were giving up [...]

BELBEK, Crimea -- Russian forces pushed Saturday to complete their expulsion of the Ukrainian military from the disputed Crimean Peninsula, smashing through the gates of a base here with armored [...]

Byline: NOAH SNEIDER BAKHCHYSARAY, Ukraine -- Outside the ornate auburn gates of the Khan's Palace here in the historical capital of the Crimean Tatars, the streets are empty. Many stores [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDCrimea will vote on Sunday in a ballot referendum that leaders of the regional Parliament expect will ratify their decision to break away from Ukraine and become part of [...]

BAKHCHYSARAY, Ukraine -- Outside the ornate auburn gates of the Khan's Palace here in the historical capital of the Crimean Tatars, the streets are empty. Many stores are shuttered, their [...]

Byline: STEVEN LEE MYERS, C.J. CHIVERS and NOAH SNEIDER MOSCOW -- As Russia tightened its grip on Crimea, Ukraine's ousted president appealed on Tuesday to the country's military units to [...]

CHORNOMORSKOYE, Ukraine -- Russian forces raided a Ukrainian naval missile base here in the darkness of early Monday, scaling its outer walls and outmatching the surprised sailors inside without firing [...]

KHOSHKELDI, Ukraine -- In a narrow convenience store here in Khoshkeldi, a village of about 1,000 ethnic Tatars just outside the Crimean capital, shoppers came in one after another on [...]

MOSCOW -- A regional court in Kazan, Russia, convicted a gay-rights advocate on Thursday for violating the country's much-criticized law against ''gay propaganda.'' The advocate, Dmitri Isakov, faces a fine [...]

MOSCOW -- Viktor Romanov smiles slyly as he explains his plans to hold gay-friendly Olympics in Moscow just three days after the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. These ''Open Games'' [...]

A commuter helicopter carrying several dozen passengers, including at least 11 children, crashed in a remote Russian region on Tuesday, killing 23 and prompting a frantic attempt to reach survivors [...]

The article discusses a trend of crowding to view masterworks at well-known art museums throughout the world as of July 29, 2014. Topics addressed include measures to deal with increased attendance at museums such as the Louvre, the Vatican Museums, and the Hermitage, as well as concerns about risks to the displayed artworks.