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Russian home cooking. Comfort food with a slavic twist

26 Aug 2019

Russian and Ukrainian born Wellingtonians, Natalia Beliaeva and Iuliia Pashchuk share secrets to slavic cooking. They have recipes for beetroot salad, kasha, borsht and blini. On Saturday September… Audio, Gallery

Ukraine 'will prosecute' anyone spreading accused gunman's manifesto

23 Aug 2019

The ambassador of Ukraine has vowed to track down anyone distributing the accused Christchurch gunman's manifesto and prosecute them.

A neo-Nazi in Ukraine is reproducing the document in paperback… Video, Audio

The Ukrainian Presidential election

8 Apr 2019

From Russia, Matthew Bodner looks at the main candidates in Ukraine's presidential election, one is a famous comedian,Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the other is the current leader Petro Poroshenko (pictured… Audio

Who's laughing now: Comedian leads Ukraine's presidential contest

1 Apr 2019

Comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy plays a normal citizen who becomes president on TV. Now, he's won the most votes in the first round of Ukraine's presidential elections.

Ukraine-Russia sea clash was pre-election stunt, says Putin

29 Nov 2018

Russian border guards fired on three Ukranian boats and seized the crews, but Putin says it was staged.

Russia and Ukraine tensions reaching fever pitch

26 Nov 2018

Russia has fired on and seized three Ukranian naval vessels off the coast of the Crimean peninsula, a major escalation in an ongoing conflict between the two countries. Audio

A journey through the war gardens of the world

6 Sep 2018

Freelance photojournalist, writer and filmmaker, Lalage Snow has worked in some of the most war torn and damaged places on earth. Whilst working in Afghanistan she came across amazing people putting… Audio, Gallery

Far right protests in Germany

3 Sep 2018

Europe Correspondent, Seamus Kearney reports on protests in the eastern German city of Chemnitz, with anti fascist groups holding counter rallies following far right groups marching and doing the Nazi… Audio

'We found Russian hit-list of 47 people,' Ukraine tells allies

2 Jun 2018

Ukraine says its faked murder of a Russian dissident has led to the discovery of a hit-list of 47 people whom Russia planned to kill abroad.

Russian journalist - staged-murder was part of special op

31 May 2018

Ukraine's security services say they faked the murder of Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko to save him from what they said was a real assassination plot by Russia. Even his family thought he was… Video, Audio

Peters unclear on pursuing Russia-NZ free trade agreement

15 Mar 2018

Foreign Minister Winston Peters has hit back at the National Party after it called him an apologist for Russia. National's trade spokesperson Todd McClay has been critical of Mr Peters' enthusiastic… Audio

Anne Applebaum: Red Famine

18 Feb 2018

Anne Applebaum's book "Red Famine, Stalin's War on Ukraine" is about a famine not caused by drought or floods - but a political famine caused by Joseph Stalin's brutal policy of farm collectivisation… Audio

Tech news: TVNZ live-streams, Google under scrutiny & another big cyber-attack

1 Jul 2017

Could TVNZ live-streaming be the beginning of the end for Freeview, plus more EU scrutiny of Google and the big tech story of the week – hacking tools stolen from the NSA are again used in a major… Audio