LONDON -A $3 billion dispute between two adversarial governments will come to a head in an English court on Jan. 17 when Russia and Ukraine meet for a first hearing in their legal battle over a politically charged eurobond.
The debt at the heart of the dispute was sold in late December 2013 by then-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to Russia, less than two months before his Moscow-backed government was ousted by street protests that the swept ex-Soviet republic.
