Ukraine

Ukrainian president, Swedish premier discuss association agreement, energy security by phone

Yushchenko praised the fact that the deepening of cooperation between Ukraine and the EU was among priority tasks for Sweden’s presidency. Yushchenko …
Interfax-Ukraine

Ukrainian sailors from Marathon ship to arrive in Odesa on Friday, says foreign ministry

The press service said that the sailors would travel to Ukraine via Paris and Istanbul. The body of Serhiy Vartenkov, who was killed by pirates during …
Interfax-Ukraine

Lytvyn says Yushchenko will not veto new law on presidential elections

He told the Fifth TV channel late on Thursday that parliament would consider a new wording of a bill on presidential elections next plenary …
Interfax-Ukraine

Lawmaker Lozinsky signs statement agreeing to give up deputy mandate in connection with murder incident

Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn read the statement at a meeting of the conciliatory council of faction leaders on Friday. As reported, on …
Interfax-Ukraine

Source: Government dismisses deputy transport ministers Urbansky and Serhiyenko

The government took the decision at a meeting on Wednesday, a well-informed government source told Interfax-Ukraine. Urbansky and Serhiyenko have held …
Interfax-Ukraine

BBC: Ukraine hospitals survive on charity

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Tobacco Underground

The hang glider pilot insisted it was a routine flight, and that strong winds had blown him over the border from Hungary into Ukraine. But the man …
Vlad Lavrov

Anti-tobacco advocates start to secure victories

In Ukraine’s billowing clouds of cigarette smoke, the air is starting to clear a little. “Big Tobacco,” the multinational industry that has racked up …
Mark Rachkevych

Obama’s first visit to Russia as U.S. president raises fears in Kyiv

U.S. President Barack Obama visits Moscow next week for talks that are set to focus on arms control but also touch on Ukraine. There is concern in …
James Marson

Tymoshenko loses some allies as election nears

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, the “Iron Lady of Ukraine,” is starting to show signs of rust. Her commanding ruling style, which has helped her …
Alina Pastukhova

Lenin monument to need reconstructive surgery

Nationalists vandalized the monument to Vladimir Lenin, leader of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, on Taras Shevchenko Boulevard in Kyiv. A part of his …
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Ukraine cuts coal production 9.3 percent in H1

Coking coal production fell 11.9% to 12.599 million tonnes in the half, while steam coal output fell 7.8% to 23.281 million tonnes. Coal production …
Interfax-Ukraine

Yanukovych: Increase in prices of petroleum products due to increase in imports

Yanukovych was speaking on the Luhansk regional television channel. “You are probably interested in the issue of why prices are rising. Because the …
Ukrainian News

Cabinet introduces compensation of Hr 550 for vouchers to health and rest centers for farmers’ children from stabilization fund

Ukrainian News learned this from governmental resolution No. 649 dated July 1. According to the governmental resolution, children’s homes and other …
Ukrainian News

Expert: President Yuschenko could be reelected for a second term

He presented the results of a survey entitled “Ahead of the Presidential Campaign: A Scenario for the Development of the Political Situation and the …
Interfax-Ukraine

Yushchenko: Chinese president invited to visit Ukraine

“Ukraine is expecting him. We proposed a program for this visit, and we’d like the Chinese side to consider it,” he said at a meeting with Vice …
Interfax-Ukraine

Yanukovych says Regions Party will support motion to take away Lozinsky’s deputy immunity

“Of course, we’ll support [this submission],” he said in Luhansk on Thursday. Yanukovych said that the prosecutor general’s report on this issue …
Interfax-Ukraine

Cyprus police say Canadian killed, dumped in gorge

Police spokesman Michalis Katsounodos said Thursday the victim has been identified as 39-year-old Sergy Nalyvaisky, a Canadian citizen of Ukrainian …
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