Ukraine
Over 250,000 people signed a petition urging the Kremlin to give the contraband food to the poor instead.
The resolution would have set up a tribunal to prosecute those suspected of downing the airliner.
He's on a blacklist with 117 other prominent arts and entertainment figures.
The new level of support is a significant increase in the assistance for Ukraine to bolster security against possible Russian aggression.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The monuments sit atop mass graves.
Governments, faith-based groups and churches, aid agencies and volunteer tourists, who donate cash and goods to orphanages or build and refurbish children's homes and other institutions, may be inadvertently funding human trafficking.
Ukraine ousted Yanukovych in order to avoid becoming fully authoritarian. The war Putin unleashed against Ukraine is his way of telling Ukraine that fascism and democracy are incompatible.