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Poland’s Jan Tombinski to head EU Delegation to Ukraine BRUSSELS – Jan Tombinski is to replace Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Jose Manuel Pinto Teixeira.
May 16 at 20:05 | Interfax-Ukraine
PACE representatives talk to Tymoshenko about health and politics KHARKIV – Former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko, the co-rapporteurs of the PACE Monitoring Committee on Ukraine, Mailis Reps and Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin, and Secretary of the Committee Bas Klein have met at Kharkiv Central Clinical Hospital No. 5 for around three hours.
May 16 at 19:53 | Interfax-Ukraine
Double-decker Skoda train makes maiden high-speed trip between Poltava and Kharkiv POLTAVA – A double-decker Skoda electric train on May 15, 2012, opened high-speed traffic on the Poltava-Krasnohrad-Lozova section, having departed from Poltava to Kharkiv for a one-time trip.
May 16 at 18:57 | Interfax-Ukraine
Lutsenko's defense team to appeal against ruling of Kyiv Court of Appeals The defense team of former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko will appeal against a ruling of Kyiv Court of Appeals that upheld Lutsenko's sentence of four years in prison.
May 16 at 18:27 | Interfax-Ukraine
US State Department: Jailed Ukrainian politicians must take part in Rada election The Ukrainian opposition leaders who are currently in jail must take part in the parliamentary elections due this fall, according to the United States Department of State.
May 16 at 18:02 | Interfax-Ukraine
US official: Washington opposes isolation of Ukraine U.S. Assistant Deputy Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Thomas O. Melia has stated that Washington opposes the isolation of Ukraine as a response to the political persecution of opposition leaders in the country.
May 16 at 17:44 | Interfax-Ukraine
Rada rejects amnesty bill Ukrainian parliamentarian and Front for Change Party Leader Arseniy Yatseniuk has proposed a bill on the 2012 amnesty that allows releasing 13,000 inmates jailed for minor crimes and stop political repressions.
May 16 at 16:34 | Interfax-Ukraine
Ukraine ready to transfer fifth An-32 to Iraq Ukraine is preparing the dispatch the fifth of six An-32 transport aircraft being assembled under a contract worth over $550 million on the supply of Ukrainian military hardware to Iraq.
May 16 at 16:22 | Interfax-Ukraine
Ukraine dismisses EU plea over jailed Tymoshenko Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov on May 15 brushed aside Western concerns about his government's treatment of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko as misguided and unwarranted, indicating that Kiev was unlikely to change its mind.
May 16 at 15:42 | Reuters
Ukraine sees 19% rise in CO2 emission in 2011 Ukraine in 2011 increased carbon dioxide (СО2) emissions by 19% compared to 2010, to 235.971 million tonnes, the State Statistics Service has reported.
May 16 at 12:18 | Interfax-Ukraine
Yanukovych invites Putin, Lukashenko to visit Chornobyl Moscow – Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has invited his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to visit Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant during his state visit to Ukraine.
May 16 at 10:18 | Interfax-Ukraine
Yanukovych invites CIS leaders to attend Euro 2012 matches in Ukraine Moscow – Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has invited heads of the CIS countries to attend the matches of the Euro 2012 European Football Championship in Ukraine.
May 16 at 10:06 | Interfax-Ukraine
Yanukovych: Ukraine asking for its CIS chairmanship to be postponed to 2014 MOSCOW - Ukraine is asking for the postponement of its chairmanship at the CIS from 2013 until 2014, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said.
May 15 at 20:36 | Interfax-Ukraine
Yanukovych: Ukraine to search for model of cooperation with Customs Union, studying EurAsEC MOSCOW – Ukraine will search for a model of cooperation with the Customs Union, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said following a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on May 15.
May 15 at 19:55 | Interfax-Ukraine
Yanukovych: Ukraine insists on establishment of tripartite gas consortium MOSCOW - Ukraine still insists on setting up a tripartite consortium to modernize its gas transportation system, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said.
May 15 at 19:25 | Interfax-Ukraine