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A Ukrainian serviceman stands guard in the city of Schastye in the Luhansk region late last month.
A Ukrainian serviceman stands guard in the city of Schastye in the Luhansk region late last month.

Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

Final News Summary For September 1, 2017

-- EDITOR'S NOTE: We have started a new Ukraine Live Blog as of September 2, 2017. Find it here.

-- Ukraine says it will introduce new border-crossing rules from next year, affecting citizens of “countries that pose risks for Ukraine.”

-- The Association Agreement strengthening ties between Ukraine and the European Union entered into force on September 1, marking an end to four years of political drama surrounding the accord.

-- The trial of Crimean journalist Mykola Semena will resume later this month after the first hearing in weeks produced little progress toward a resolution of the politically charged case.

*NOTE: Times are stated according to local time in Kyiv (GMT +3)

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This ends our live blogging for October 13. Be sure to check back tomorrow for our continuing coverage.

08:14 14.10.2016

Lawyer for Ukrainian journalist banned from leaving Russia:

By RFE/RL's Russian Service

The lawyer for a Ukrainian journalist held in Moscow on charges of espionage says he was briefly prevented from leaving Russia.

Attorney Mark Feigin says Russian border guards at a Moscow airport refused to allow him to board a flight to Vilnius on October 13, saying he was banned from leaving Russia under a request by the Federal Bailiff Service.

Feigin initially said he though ban was linked to his professional activities. But Feigin said later on his Twitter account that he was informed by the Federal Bailiff Service that the travel ban was the result of a technical error in its computer database.

Feigin currently is defending journalist Roman Sushchenko, a Paris-based correspondent from Ukraine's Ukrinform news agency who was detained in Moscow for allegedly collecting classified information.

Sushchenko was formally charged with espionage on October 7.

Feigin has also defended other high-profile clients at trials in Russia -- including Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko, members of the protest art collective Pussy Riot, and Crimean Tatars jailed in Russia on terrorism charges after Moscow's seizure and annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in 2014. (w/TASS, Interfax)

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