Dec. 10, 2012
Brussels – The association agreement between Ukraine and the EU could be signed by November 2013 if the Ukrainian authorities demonstrate significant progress in addressing the problems outlined by th
Dec. 10, 2012
Several members
of Ukraine’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community as well as their
supporters, were allegedly beaten by ultranationalists on Dec. 8 while taking
part in a rally to commemor
People
Dec. 10, 2012
Anastasia Grishay, 27, was refused asylum in the Czech Republic after she fled criminal charges for producing and distributing pornography in Ukraine. Now the woman and her three kids are obliged to l
Dec. 9, 2012
KYIV, Dec 9 – Ukraine’s Mykola Azarov was set to keep his job as prime minister after the country’s president nominated him on Sunday for a fresh term in the post.
Dec. 7, 2012
United Opposition is considering formation of a single party.
Dec. 7, 2012
Currently jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko will be able to run for the presidency in 2015, Head of the Council of the Batkivschyna United Opposition, MP Arseniy Yatseniuk has sa
Dec. 6, 2012
KIEV – It was hailed as a historic $1 billion deal
marking a major step towards ending Ukraine’s reliance on imported
Russian gas.
Dec. 5, 2012
The Kyiv Post is
publishing the association agreement initialed earlier this year between the European
Union and Ukraine. The agreement has not yet been signed and ratified, steps needed to the agreem
Dec. 5, 2012
The Ukraina shopping mall, the focus of a
protracted legal battle over its ownership, has been linked in news reports to
persons or entities associated with President Viktor Yanukovych.
Dec. 5, 2012
Ukraine has moved up in Transparency
International’s <a href="http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2012/results/">2012
corruption perceptions index</a>!
Last year the country was the world’s
152nd most cor
Dec. 5, 2012
The European community should currently distinguish between the attitude to Ukraine and the attitude to the policy of President Viktor Yanukovych, UDAR Party leader Vitali Klitschko has said at a meet
Dec. 4, 2012
The criminal prosecutions of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and former Interior Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko are the main obstacle in Ukraine’s path to European integration, Ch
Dec. 3, 2012
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich on Monday accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and his government and told the cabinet to stay on in an interim capacity, according to a decre
Nov. 30, 2012
Dec. 1 is
World AIDS Day, commemorating the victims of a pandemic that has taken the lives
of 27,800 Ukrainians since the first case was registered here in 1987.
People
Nov. 28, 2012
Anastasiya Shpagina and Valeriya Lukianova are probably two of the best-known young women in Odesa. Lukianova turned herself into a living Barbie doll, while Shpagina pretends to look like an anime fa
Nov. 26, 2012
The Rome mayor’s office has put up a portrait of jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on the facade of its headquarters as a token of support for her, Tymoshenko’s Batkivschyna (Fat
Nov. 22, 2012
It took more than 50 years, but Ukraine has finally changed its criminal law.
Nov. 22, 2012
Svoboda Party’s success in the Oct. 28 parliamentary election came as a surprise even for its own leaders. Unsure if it would hit the 5 percent threshold for getting elected, the right-wing nationalis
Nov. 20, 2012
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has upheld its ruling on the case of former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko by rejecting the Ukrainian government’s request to the Grand Chamber to
Nov. 19, 2012
President of the Football Federation of Ukraine (FFU) Anatoliy Konkov has said that the search for the new head coach of Ukraine’s national team is continuing according to schedule.