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President Yanukovych’s address to the Ukrainian people The following is an address made by President Viktor Yanukovych to the Ukrainian people that was aired on television April 30 2010.
Apr 30, 2010 at 22:46
Analyst: No protests expected after May 11 when parliament resumes work Director of the Kyiv-based Gorshenin Institute of Management Issues Kostiantyn Bondarenko has said that no mass protests should be expected after May 11, when the Ukrainian parliament resumes its work.
Apr 30, 2010 at 14:39 | Interfax-Ukraine
Tymoshenko: Smoke bombs in parliament might have been set off by Regions Party BYuT leader Yulia Tymoshenko has said she does not rule out that smoke bombs set off in the session hall of the Verkhovna Rada on April 27 when it ratified the agreement extending the lease on a Russian naval base in Crimea were set off by Regions Party MPs.
Apr 30, 2010 at 13:52 | Interfax-Ukraine
Opposition: Russian naval base deal not ratified in parliament in line with legal procedures The Ukrainian-Russian agreement extending the lease on a Russian naval base in Crimea was not ratified in line with the Constitution of Ukraine and the law on the Verkhovna Rada's rules of procedure, lawmaker, foreign minister of the opposition government, and leader of the People's Movement (Rukh) of Ukraine, Borys Tarasiuk, has said.
Apr 30, 2010 at 12:49 | Interfax-Ukraine
Party of Regions: Ukrainian law on Great Famine may be reviewed The law, which defines the Great Famine of the 1930s as an act of Ukrainian genocide, may be reviewed, Party of Regions member Yulia Novikova told Channel Five on Wednesday night.
Apr 29, 2010 at 16:27 | Interfax-Ukraine
Prosecutors investigate Ukraine parliament chaos Ukrainian prosecutors say they are considering filing charges against parliament members who hurled eggs and set off smoke bombs in the chamber as lawmakers ratified a controversial agreement with Russia.
Apr 29, 2010 at 14:05
Lytvyn: No legal grounds to hold early parliamentary elections in Ukraine Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn has said that there are no legal grounds to hold snap parliamentary elections in Ukraine, and added that there could be only political or moral reasons for calling fresh elections.
Apr 29, 2010 at 13:53 | Interfax-Ukraine
Political analysts: No legal grounds to hold snap parliamentary elections Ukrainian political analysts see no legal grounds for holding early parliamentary elections, Director of the Penta Center for Applied Political Studies Volodymyr Fesenko said at a press conference in Kyiv on April 28.
Apr 28, 2010 at 16:04 | Interfax-Ukraine
Parliament pandemonium in Ukraine The speaker of Ukraine’s Parliament huddled under umbrellas as eggs rained down and smoke bombs filled the chamber with an acrid cloud.
Apr 28, 2010 at 08:50
PACE president condemns actions by opposition deputies at parliament session on April 27 President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Mevlut Cavusoglu has condemned "barbaric actions" by opposition lawmakers at a session of the Ukrainian parliament on April 27..
Apr 27, 2010 at 22:27 | Interfax-Ukraine
Our Ukraine Party: Yanukovych violated law on Holodomor of 1932-1933 The Our Ukraine Party believes that Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's statement that it would be unfair to recognize the Holodomor of the 1930s as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people violates the country's law on the Holodomor.
Apr 27, 2010 at 21:49 | Interfax-Ukraine
Sobolev: Yanukovych's refusal to recognize Holodomor as genocide against Ukrainians a betrayal Strasbourg, April 27 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's statement that it would be unfair to recognize the great famine of the 1930s as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people is another betrayal of Ukrainian interests for the sake of "cheap Russian gas" and a betrayal of the Ukrainians destroyed by dictators under the communist regime, the head of the shadow government, Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko (BYT) MP and member of Ukraine's permanent delegation to the PACE, Serhiy Sobolev, has said.
Apr 27, 2010 at 20:19 | Interfax-Ukraine
Ratification opens new opportunities for Russian-Ukrainian cooperation Moscow, April 27 (Interfax) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov have welcomed the ratification by the parliaments of the bilateral agreements regarding the Black Sea Fleet and gas supplies.
Apr 27, 2010 at 19:08 | Interfax-Ukraine
Yanukovych: Local elections in Ukraine will take place in 2011 Elections to the local authorities in Ukraine will take place in 2011, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said.
Apr 27, 2010 at 18:59 | Interfax-Ukraine
Russian, Ukrainian parliamentarians to meet in Kyiv in May State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov and Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn have agreed to hold a meeting of the Ukrainian-Russian inter-parliamentary commission in Kyiv on May 15-16.
Apr 27, 2010 at 18:29 | Interfax-Ukraine