Top News, Ukraine

Prosecutor to complete translation of Melnychenko's tapes by weekend The Prosecutor General's Office intends to eliminate inaccuracies in the translation into Ukrainian of the results of a phonographic examination of ex-State Security Service Major Mykola Melnychenko's tapes by the end of the week, following which the results of this examination could be published.
Dec 1, 2009 at 21:35 | Interfax-Ukraine
Top European Union official: Oligarchs stall Ukraine progress Ukraine's business oligarchs are stifling the economy by choking competition and are holding up improved trade and economic ties with the European Union, the EU Commission's top official in Kyiv said on Monday.
Dec 1, 2009 at 10:33 | Reuters
European Parliament president hoping for free, transparent presidential elections in Ukraine President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek hopes that the upcoming presidential elections in Ukraine will be free, open and transparent.
Nov 30, 2009 at 22:10 | Interfax-Ukraine
Sanitary epidemiological station: Flu over in Kyiv The Kyiv city sanitary and epidemiological station has said that the flu is over in Kyiv. According to the sanitary and epidemiological station, the indicators of the epidemic growth are 1.6 times lower the epidemic threshold.
Nov 30, 2009 at 15:18 | Ukrainian News
Slovakia Today: Slovak-Ukrainian border crossing reopens Motor vehicles will be again allowed to cross the Schengen zone border with Ukrain at the Slovak-Ukrainian checkpoint Ubla as of Sunday, November 29, the spokesperson of the Border Police Directorate in Sobrance (Kosice region) Agnesa Kopernicka informed on Saturday. Read the story here.
Nov 30, 2009 at 10:15
Washington Times: Yushchenko calls '30s famine Soviet genocide Natalia A. Feduschak writes from Kyiv: Standing before a monument dedicated to the millions who perished from the Great Famine of the 1930s, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko marked the famine's anniversary with a fresh appeal for the world to recognize the tragedy as an act of genocide by then-Soviet leader Josef Stalin. Read the story here.
Nov 30, 2009 at 10:01
Europe's post-Soviet greening _ gains and failures DNIPRODZERZHYNSK, Ukraine (AP) — Twenty years ago, when the Iron Curtain came down, the world gagged in horror as it witnessed firsthand the ravages inflicted on nature by the Soviet industrial machine.
Nov 30, 2009 at 09:50
SOS Ariana Politicians silent, relatives extra tense amid conflicting reports about the fate of 24 Ukrainian crew members on board a cargo ship hijacked by pirates on May 2
Nov 26, 2009 at 23:30 | Nataliya Bugayova
Alina Gerashchenko: ‘Set my father free’ Twelve-year old Ukrainian girl makes desperate plea for help in freeing her father from pirates on the Ariana.
Nov 26, 2009 at 23:24
Voting for Yanukovych, but unenthusiastically Disgust with all politicians also high in Donetsk.
Nov 26, 2009 at 23:15 | James Marson
Ukraine’s children still have it rough Country’s children hit hard by poverty, other pains.
Nov 26, 2009 at 23:10 | Nataliya Bugayova
Poll: over 40 percent of Ukrainians prefer Collective Security Treaty Organization , 12.5 percent favor NATO Some 40.1% of Ukrainians said the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) was the best global security group for Ukraine to be apart of, the Ukrainian Project System said in comments on the November 4-10 poll.
Nov 26, 2009 at 16:24 | Interfax-Ukraine
Somali pirates say Greek ship Ariana released Somali pirates said they freed a Greek ship on Thursday that they hijacked more than six months ago as it sailed to the Middle East from Brazil.
Nov 26, 2009 at 15:27 | Reuters
Tymoshenko calls Ukraine ‘absolutely ungovernable’ Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and her eponymous parliamentary faction tried but failed to overcome a presidential veto that blocked Hr 1 billion in spending to flight the flu epidemic.
Nov 26, 2009 at 13:11 | Peter Byrne
Flu, pneumonia kill 404 people in Ukraine A total of 404 people have died of flu and flu-like illnesses in Ukraine as of late on Wednesday, November 25.
Nov 25, 2009 at 23:50 | Interfax-Ukraine