Ukraine
The arrest of a former head of the State Customs Service of Ukraine, Anatoliy Makarenko, and a former deputy chief of Naftogaz Ukrainy, Ihor Didenko, has been extended until April 10.
Mar. 9, 2011
Vaclav Havel, the former president of the Czech Republic and one of the world’s leading democracy activists, said that post-communist Eastern European nations are still stuck in the authoritarian past
Mar. 9, 2011
The personal nurse of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi went shopping in her Ukrainian home town on Monday but refused to speak of her life in Libya, which she fled on Saturday.
Feb. 28, 2011
Judge’s ruling seen as victory for press freedoms worldwide.
Feb. 25, 2011
Editor’s Note: What follows is the summary of a U.S. State Department cable from February 2010, which the WikiLeaks website released on Feb. 18. The author of the telegram is current U.S. ambassador J
Feb. 18, 2011
Former Head of the State Committee for the State Material Reserve Mykhailo Pozhyvanov has said he is ready to seek political asylum in Austria if he is put on the international wanted list.
Feb. 15, 2011
The last ZAZ-1103 Slavuta car made in Zaporizhia has been sold at an online auction for UAH 46,930, according to a Friday Izvestia v Ukraine publication.
Feb. 11, 2011
Be careful what you say or write about two Ukrainian billionaires, Rinat Akhmetov and Dmytro Firtash. If they really take offense, they might file a libel lawsuit against you in London, the ’libel tou
Feb. 11, 2011
Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said Friday that Ukraine’s terms of cooperation with the International Monetary Fund could be reviewed if the country’s markets do not develop as rapidly as expected. "D
Feb. 4, 2011
The chairman of the Mejlis, the parliament of the Crimean Tatars, and MP from OU-PSD faction, Mustafa Dzhemilev, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Radio Liberty reported on Tuesday.
Feb. 2, 2011
President Viktor Yanukovych has said that he has Polish roots on his father’s side.
Feb. 2, 2011
Leader the Front for Change Party MP Arseniy Yatseniuk of the Our Ukraine-People’s Self-Defense faction has registered in the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, a draft resolution on the establis
Jan. 24, 2011
Turkey’s transportation minister said on Saturday that Turkey and Ukraine would sign a new agreement next week to connect Turkey and Ukraine reciprocally through train ferry, <a href="http://www.world
Jan. 23, 2011
The former economy minister and now political refugee residing in the Czech Republic says selective persecution is underway in Ukraine.
Jan. 21, 2011
The widow of slain journalist Georgiy Gongadze draws parallels between former President Leonid Kuchma’s and current President Viktor Yanukovych’s regimes.
Jan. 21, 2011
Kaskiv says protesters against president should ‘declare their patriotism and high goals’ for nation
Jan. 21, 2011