For the Record
Ukrainian soccer: In the Oct. 12 Sports section, an article about the conflict in Ukraine and its impact on soccer incorrectly stated that businessman Rinat Akhmetov has been “linked to organized crime.”
Oct. 19, 2014
World & Nation
A steel and mining magnate who employs 300,000 workers in eastern Ukraine claimed Wednesday to have mobilized a million-strong protest against pro-Russia separatists as Kremlin support for the agitators appeared to weaken.
May 21, 2014
Soccer
The casualties of war are many. Lives lost or destroyed. Cities leveled. Societies ripped apart.
Oct. 11, 2014
Ukraine’s wealthiest industrialists appear to have entered the fight against separatists endangering their export-dependent businesses, chasing militants out of the steel-producing port of Mariupol and challenging the gunmen occupying other eastern Ukraine areas.
May 16, 2014
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is alleging that his country’s intelligence service has uncovered plans for a Russia-backed coup d’etat in Ukraine next week that involves one of his country’s richest oligarchs
Nov. 26, 2021
A victory for the opposition candidate would be a blow to the handful of business clans that control much of the nation’s economy.
Dec. 8, 2004
Ukraine’s election authorities said Saturday that they are unable to operate polling places for Sunday’s presidential election in areas representing about 10% of the population and that separatist threats against anyone trying to cast ballots in the violence-plagued east could further deter turnout.
May 24, 2014
Entertainment & Arts
The Orange County Performing Arts Center has announced casting for the remaining Moscow Classical Ballet performances this week.
Oct. 5, 1988
You don’t amass a billion-dollar fortune in a country infamous for corruption and inefficient industries by ignoring the political winds.