Ukraine

A Ukraine company said Wednesday it may deliver the world's largest jet — originally developed for the Soviet Union's abandoned space shuttle program — to China within the next five years.

Ukraine's former president Victor Yanukovych spent more that $30 million on his personal estate before he fled for Russia. Think private zoo, crocodile skin-lined planters and a copy of John and Yoko's white piano.

At least one big industry in Ukraine is thriving, not in spite of the conflict with Russia, but because of it. It's their shared love of Ukrainian TV productions.

The top US diplomat John Kerry sat down today in the Kremlin with Russian President Vladimir Putin to talk about Syria and Ukraine.

Crimea in 2016 looks eerily like Crimea in 1944 for many Crimean Tatars.

Fighting continues to escalate in eastern Ukraine. And the tensions there aren't just ripping apart the country, they are ripping apart families.

She remembers the Donetsk airport when it was a sad Soviet-era fixture. And when it was transformed, reimagined, for a 2012 European soccer tourney. Now it is rubble in fighting in eastern Ukraine, and she realizes " how little time it takes to destroy something which has been so painstakingly built."

Russia is eagerly watching the Scotland referendum on independence. Russia media portray it as a validation of the March vote in Crimea for self-determination. But Moscow-based reporter Charles Maynes tells Marco Werman that Russia's government is less eager to embrace self-determination inside its own borders.

In Yelena Akhtiorskaya's debut novel, "Panic in a Suitcase," a Ukrainian-American family is torn between Odessa and the streets of Brighton Beach in New York.

Dau was filmed in a full-size replica of a Soviet scientific institute featuring real-life physicists, Communist party bosses and former KGB agents. But you might never get the chance to see the results of the huge production.