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Opposition lawmakers on Friday blocked the Ukrainian Parliament a day after a brawl in the chamber sent one legislator to the hospital. Yesterday at 15:50 | Associated Press |
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CAMP DAVID, Md., May 19 (Reuters) - PresidentBarack ObamatoldG8leaders meeting at Camp David that Syrian PresidentBashar al-Assadmust leave power, and pointed toYemenas a model of how political transition could work there, the White House said on Saturday. May 20 at 01:09 | Reuters |
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's president has ordered authorities to free the country's jailed former army chief, a man credited with ending the country's long civil war but who later was imprisoned after challenging the president in elections. May 20 at 09:35 | Associated Press |
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A few weeks ago, I created a profile and logged onto VKontakte, the most popular Russian-language social network. I entered some personal information, uploaded an especially flattering picture of myself, then used the search function to find all single women between 25 and 35 in Ukraine who were online at the moment — around 7:30 p.m. Ukraine time. There were more than 10,000 available, all sorted by a rating system which seemed to be directly proportional to the amount of pictures a woman had posted of herself in a string bikini, and how good she looked in said bikini. Read more here. May 20 at 14:20 |
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has ruled out the idea of jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko being released for treatment abroad ahead of next month's Euro 2012 soccer championships, which Ukraine and Poland are hosting. His remarks come as Germany has offered to provide medical care to the ailing ex-premier and again hinted at a possible boycott by Chancellor Angela Merkel of matches played in Ukraine once the tournament kicks off in co-host Poland on June 8. Read more here. May 21 at 09:02 |
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KHARKIV - Kyivsky District Court of Kharkiv has postponed the hearing of the case involving the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) Corporation against Ukraine's former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko until June 25. May 21 at 11:19 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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The Ukrainian parliament has passed at first reading the government's amendments to the law on state guarantees to restore deposits of Ukrainian citizens in Soviet-era Sberbank and Ukrgosstrakh (No. 10355), foreseeing the payment of refunding not only in cash, but also in a cashless form. May 21 at 12:13 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn has stated that parliament was not planning to consider the draft Labor Code this plenary week. May 21 at 13:13 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin named loyal allies to top posts in Russia's new government on May 21, taking a firm grip on economic policy and limiting Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's ability to push a reform agenda. May 21 at 13:47 | Reuters |
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LONDON - The Olympic flame went out on Monday for the first time during the torch relay around Britain ahead of the London Games because of a "malfunctioning burner", organisers said. May 21 at 16:19 | Reuters |
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KIEV - Topless activists from a Ukrainian women's rights group staged a second attack on the Euro 2012 soccer trophy on Monday, grabbing it while it was on public display in the southeast of Ukraine before being seized themselves by police. May 21 at 17:52 | Reuters |
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Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov believes it necessary to polish the procedure of providing preferences to facilitate the introduction of energy saving technologies in Ukraine. May 21 at 18:34 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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Ukraine wants to continue cooperation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), First Vice Prime Minister Valeriy Khoroshkovsky has said. May 21 at 19:34 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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BERLIN - Former German central banker Thilo Sarrazin, whose musings on Muslim immigrants sparked outrage in 2010, has triggered fresh controversy with a book that paints Germany as the euro zone's hostage, forced to pay out vast sums to atone for the Holocaust. May 21 at 20:30 | Reuters |
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Before a meeting of the North Atlantic Council in the format of contributor to NATO's Afghanistan operation, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych met with heads of state participating in the event. May 21 at 20:46 | Interfax-Ukraine |