Ukraine
Vasyl Dzharty, the prime minister of the autonomous republic of Crimea in Ukraine, died in the early hours on Wednesday, his press secretary Violetta Lisina told Interfax-Ukraine.
Aug. 17, 2011
Oleksandr Volodarsky spent six months of a year’s sentence in prison for simulating a sexual act, naked with a female partner, outside parliament in November 2009.
Aug. 1, 2011
A medical authority said one more person had been diagnosed with cholera and hospitalized in Mariupol, Ukraine, bringing the total number of cases in the current local outbreak to 24.
Jul. 24, 2011
The case on the disappearance of Vasyl Klymentyev, the editor-in-chief of the Kharkiv-based New Style newspaper, is at a final stage, Ukrainian Interior Minister Anatoliy Mohyliov has said.
Jul. 20, 2011
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a five-part series that examines the Holocaust in western Ukraine that nearly wiped out its 500,000-member Jewish community during Nazi Germany’s occupation in Wor
Jul. 14, 2011
Zaporizhia, June 7 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Thirteen samples of cholera-like vibrio bacteria have been detected in Zaporizhia region.
Jun. 7, 2011
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has prepared a plan for the evacuation of Ukrainians from Yemen and is ready to assist them if relevant applications are submitted to the embassy.
Jun. 3, 2011
Ukrainian and Serbian officials have signed here an agreement on a visa-free regime for short-term travel between two countries on Tuesday. "I am pleased to proclaim that we have just signed a bila
Jun. 1, 2011
Ukraine’s renewable energy market looks more promising, especially with the adoption of green-tariff price incentives for electricity from renewable energy sources.
May. 20, 2011
The former economy minister says he is not out of Ukrainian politics.
May. 19, 2011
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych says that Ukraine is serious about reviving and further developing of its ship-building industry in the Mykolaiv region. President Viktor Yanukovych made the co
May. 18, 2011
The observance of human rights has deteriorated significantly in Ukraine, according to a report released by international human rights watchdog Amnesty International on Friday, Radio Liberty has rep
May. 13, 2011
A wreath which Russian Consul General in Lviv Oleg Astakhov was to lay at the Lviv military cemetery was grabbed away and treaded to pieces as a Russian diplomatic delegation was on its way to the Hil
May. 9, 2011
In Europe’s breadbasket, critics are talking about the ‘Great Grain Robbery.’ Agriculture Minister Mykola Prysyazhnyuk is under fire for state controls on grain exports that favor a controversial comp
Apr. 15, 2011
The number of Crimean residents who consider Ukraine their motherland increased from 32% to 71.3% from 2008 through 2011, according to the results of a survey conducted by the Razumkov Center together
Apr. 11, 2011
Fifty years after the landmark trial of Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann began, Israel on Monday marked the event that ushered in a new era of openness toward the Holocaust and its survivors with an ex
Apr. 11, 2011
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The June 19 defense pact signed between Russia and North Korea included a promise to provide military assistance to one another – within days Pyongyang said it was sending troops to Ukraine.
Jun. 26