The global death toll from the coronavirus is more than 28,800 with almost 624,000 infections confirmed, causing mass disruptions as governments continue to try to slow the spread of the new respiratory illness. Here's a roundup of developments in RFE/RL's broadcast countries.

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Confirmed cases throughout the world as of March 27, 2020.

A Ukrainian DJ has started playing online sets from an empty Kharkiv nightclub after the country went into lockdown due to the coronavirus epidemic.

The global death toll from the coronavirus has reached nearly 23,000 with more than 510,000 infections confirmed, causing mass disruptions as governments continue to try to slow the spread of the new respiratory illness.

Ukrainian police have detained a former foreign minister on a murder charge related to the fatal shooting of the ex-head of the country's most popular pro-Russian television network.

"The Crimean Bridge. Stolen With Love!" A new investigation by the anti-corruption activist Aleksei Navalny has concluded that the head of the Kremlin-funded RT network and her husband got a sizable amount of state financing for a rom-com film that was savaged by critics.

The global death toll from the coronavirus has almost reach 19,000 with more than 425,000 infections confirmed, causing mass disruptions as governments continue to try to slow the spread of the new respiratory illness. Here's a roundup of developments in RFE/RL's broadcast countries.

Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has submitted to parliament a revised bill on banking regulations needed to meet requirements set by the International Monetary Fund for a new lending package as the country’s feeble economy braces for the effects of the coronavirus outbreak. 

The global crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic has been acutely felt in eastern Ukraine, where the line of contact between government-controlled territory and regions held by Russia-backed separatist formations has become even more complicated than usual.

In Ukraine, the railroad traffic controller profession still exists - and about 80% of workers are women. They spend long shifts in small dedicated buildings beside the tracks. Ukrainian photographer Sasha Maslov shot portraits of female workers of the Ukrainian railway company from all over the country, which are compiled in a photo book by Osnovy Publishing.

Ukrainian Railroad Ladies is more than 50 portraits of traffic controllers and safety officers at railroads of Ukraine. This project is also an exploration of why these professions still exist in the 21st century, given the almost entire automatisation of railroad crossings in the country.

• Ukrainian Railroad Ladie is available for pre-order

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Several witnesses in ‘fear for their lives’ if their identities are revealed, hearing into shooting down of airliner is told

Dutch prosecutors have accused Russia of trying to sabotage the investigation into the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight 17 in Ukraine in 2014, saying this has cast “a dark shadow” over the impending trial of four suspects.

Pre-trial hearings began in Amsterdam on Monday. Prosecutors say the defendants – three Russians and a Ukrainian – helped arrange the Russian missile system that shot down MH17, a civilian airliner. All 298 people on board were killed. Most of the passengers were Dutch nationals.

Related:MH17 families fear they still face a long road to justice as trial begins

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