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Ottawa Citizen: Child molestation, rape claims mark Ukraine vote campaign Rival political camps in Ukraine have fired the first shots in what seems set to be a dirty fight for the presidency, trading accusations of high-level involvement in a child sex scandal and a years-old rape case.
Oct 20, 2009 at 23:31
Jamestown Foundation: Ukraine’s energy mess threatens to overshadow presidential election As the Ukrainian government of Yulia Tymoshenko continues to struggle with the impact of the global economic crisis, its troubled energy sector has taken a number of new hits.
Oct 20, 2009 at 23:05
New deals seal Russian energy dominance over Serbia Serbian gas monopoly Srbijagas and Russia's Gazprom signed a deal on Tuesday formally creating a joint venture to build the Serbian arm of the South Stream pipeline.
Oct 20, 2009 at 22:27 | Reuters
Western Information Agency: Yushchenko accuses lawmakers of hypocrisy Today’s approval in the first reading by VR of the bill stripping lawmakers, judges and the president off their immunity could be hailed if it hadn’t, in fact, shelved the issue of lifting deputy immunity for a long time, says Yushchenko’s press secretary, Iryna Vannykova.
Oct 20, 2009 at 22:22
ITAR-TASS: Lavrov lauds Russian, Finnish ability not to view history through modern politics prism MOSCOW, October 20 (Itar-Tass) -- It is a big achievement that Russia and Finland do not view history through the prism of modern politics, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in his greetings to delegates to the international scientific conference entitled “Russia and Finland in the Multipolar World: 1809-2009”. The conference is underway in Petrozavodsk.
Oct 20, 2009 at 22:19
Tymoshenko: Pope Benedict XVI sees Ukraine as integral part of European community Pope Benedict XVI sees Ukraine as an integral part of the European community, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said.
Oct 20, 2009 at 21:30 | Interfax-Ukraine
U2 to stream entire concert live on YouTube LONDON (Reuters) - U2 will stream an entire concert live on the YouTube video sharing site this weekend, the Irish band said on their website. Sunday's show at the Rose Bowl in California is already a sellout, with an audience of 96,000 expected, and U2 said it would be the first time for such a large show to be streamed live.
Oct 20, 2009 at 21:03
Michael Jackson was 'excited,' ready for concerts LONDON (Reuters) - Michael Jackson was "excited" about performing a run of 50 live concerts in London for which he was rehearsing just before his sudden death in June, the director of a new movie about the "king of pop" said on Tuesday.
Oct 20, 2009 at 21:00
RIA Novosti: Russia aims to control 25% of global nuclear fuel market by 2030 Russian state-controlled nuclear fuel supplier TVEL plans to control 25% of the world's nuclear fuel market by 2030, the company's vice president said on Tuesday.
Oct 20, 2009 at 20:56
Georgian Daily: Rather than invade, Moscow will seek to destabilize Ukraine from within The Government of Georgia is convinced that Russia will not invade Ukraine, a country immeasurably stronger than Georgia, the vice premier of that South Caucasus republic said yesterday, but rather that Moscow will employ “the most clever means” of destabilizing Ukraine from the inside during the ongoing presidential campaign there.
Oct 20, 2009 at 20:50
RIA Novosti: Anti-missile defense in Ukraine: gasoline into a dying fire? The possible deployment of elements of a U.S. anti-missile defense system in Ukraine has become one of the most debated issues of the "new anti-missile defense configuration."
Oct 20, 2009 at 20:47
Yuschenko to meet with PACE rapporteur for Ukraine’s famine Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko will on Wednesday meet with PACE Vice-President Mevlut Cavusoglu, who is the rapporteur for Ukraine’s Holodomor and mass famines on the territory of the former USSR.
Oct 20, 2009 at 20:38 | Interfax-Ukraine
Tymoshenko: Kyiv-Chop highway to be completed by 2012 Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has forecast the completion of the Kyiv-Chop highway renovation work by 2012.
Oct 20, 2009 at 20:35 | Interfax-Ukraine
Tigipko: delay in payment of credits will cost Naftogaz an additional $700 mln. The restructuring of NJSC Naftogaz Ukraine's debts will cost Ukraine "rather dearly," according to Sergiy Tigipko, a well-known Ukrainian banker who has announced his intention to run for the presidency.
Oct 20, 2009 at 20:32 | Interfax-Ukraine
Yuschenko suspends governmental resolution obliging communications commission to auction licenses for 3G mobile communications President Viktor Yuschenko has suspended a resolution by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine obliging the National Commission for Regulating Communications to auction licenses for 3G mobile communications of UMTS standard on the bands currently used by the Defense Ministry.
Oct 20, 2009 at 20:23 | Ukrainian News