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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said that the country has to resolve the question of the high price of Russian gas on its own and received no assistance from other states. Jan 14 at 10:11 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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Ukraine has regressed to the Leonid Kuchma days, a decade associated more with authoritarianism, lawlessness, crony capitalism and corruption than with democracy. Jan 20 at 00:25 | Mark Rachkevych |
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Leninsky District Court of Luhansk has passed a three-year sentence on Roman Landik, the son of Regions Party MP Volodymyr Landik, two-years of which were suspended. Jan 19 at 12:58 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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A court on Jan. 19 convicted Roman Landik, a former Luhansk city council member and son of a national lawmaker, of hooliganism for beating a young woman in a restaurant last summer. Jan 20 at 00:07 | Oksana Faryna |
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Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of 42nd U.S. President Bill Clinton and U.S. State Secretary Hillary Clinton, will come to Kyiv next week at the invitation of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation. Jan 18 at 19:02 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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Editor’s Note: Below is a statement from Ternopil Mayor Serhiy Nadal regarding the Jan. 24 cover story in Nova Ternopilska newspaper that depicted Arabs and Africans as monkeys. The story, headlined “Arabs and negroes fight over our prostitutes,” is about African and Arab men who had allegedly gotten into a bar fight over a local woman. The scandal spread internationally, raising criticism of alleged racism in the city where some several hundred African and Asian students study in the western oblast capital of more than 200,000 residents. Jan 31 at 14:57 | Serhiy Nadal |
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The Volyn district administrative court on Jan. 31 cancelled the ban on the use of Soviet symbols at mass events, earlier approved by the Lutsk legislature, the online newspaper zik.ua reported on Friday. Feb 3 at 12:03 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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Provocative women’s movement Femen has decried a decision by the Justice Ministry refusing to grant it official status as a nongovernmental organization. Jan 16 at 20:08 | Yuriy Onyshkiv |
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Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer has called on the U.S. government to consider lists of Ukrainian officials who would be denied visas to the United States, Deputy Leader of the Batkivschyna Party Hryhoriy Nemyria told Interfax-Ukraine. Feb 2 at 19:13 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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WASHINGTON – Ukraine and Belarus will not benefit from their authorities' policies of limiting their ties with the West and increasing their dependence on Russia, U.S. Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip H. Gordon said. Jan 16 at 17:30 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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Yuriy Boyko, Ukraine’s current and past energy minister, has long been at the center of Ukraine’s energy sector -- including troublesome talks with Russia on natural gas. If the reported words in 2006-07 of then-US Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor and other experts are to be believed , Boyko helped to created RosUkrEnergo, the controversial Swiss-registered energy trader that has made some individuals close to him spectacularly wealthy. These are among the findings in the treasure trove of WikiLeaks documents now made public. The disclosures opened up previously classified or confidential U.S. government communications, mainly from embassies abroad. Jan 13 at 19:42 | Kyiv Post Staff |
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CLEVELAND — The government has asked a judge to stick with a decision denying convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk a chance to regain his U.S. citizenship, arguing that the retired autoworker is just trying to drag out the case. Jan 13 at 21:31 | Associated Press |
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Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Marietta de Purba-Lundin expects that the Ukrainian authorities will pay heed to the recommendations of the PACE resolution "The functioning of democratic institutions in Ukraine." Jan 28 at 11:49 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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Ukraine is looking for alternative sources to buy natural gas at lower prices, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said. Jan 13 at 21:02 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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Probe of gruesome slaying in 2007 is marked by changing testimony, favoritism. Feb 9 at 23:18 | Mark Rachkevych and Vlad Lavrov |