May 27, 2010 — Shevchenko Raion Department of Militsiya in ciy of Kiev offered the parents of the 19-year old student to take the body of their son out of the city's morgue, after celebrating his birthday. The cause of death — a head injury while being in custody. The militsiya official stated that the boy was so drunk that caused harm to himself, implying that no militsiya officials were involved in his death. Cynically enough the law enforcement officials have nerve to blame the death of the student on the youngster himself without even questioning procedural mistakes of the custody. Kyiv (Ukrainska Pravda)
Mar. 17 2010 — Around 5,000 demonstrators organized a political meeting by the building of Lviv's local administration. They are requesting immediate resignation of the newly appointed minister of education Dmytro Tabachnyk. The same day militsiya already has arrested people in Kyiv for similar event near the building of Ministry of Education. At the same time an Extraordinary session of Lviv regional council reviews the petition to Azarov Government with a request to fire Tabachnyk. Novynar
Coat of arms of Crimea
Mar. 17 2010 — In Crimea was elected a new speaker of local parliament Volodymyr Konstantinov (Party Za Yanukovych). In the list of candidates there was no other names but his. He received 86 votes of support out 93 issued bulletins. Konstantinov also recommended the presidential candidate Vasyl Djarti (Party of Regions) on the post of prime-minister. His candidacy supported 82 deputies out 89 that voted. Ukrainska Pravda
Mar. 17 2010 — In Crimea were elected new Republican Prosecutor, Chief of Police, and Prime-Minister. For the Medvedko's candidate Stepan Molytsky the local council voted 82 out of 90 that participated. For the head of Ministry of Internal Affairs candidate Oleksandr Prosolov voted 70 out 89. The newly elected prime-minister Vasyl Djarti promised to form the new republican government by this Friday. Ukrainska Pravda
Tamga
Mar. 16 2010 — Leader of Crimean Mejlis Mustafa Djemilev has intentions to turn the European attention to the appointment of Annatoliy Mohyliov as the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ukraine). Djemilev commented that when Mohyliov was heading the Crimean Militsiya a military operation took place in 2007 on plateau Ai-Petri during which several Crimean-Tatar businessmen had suffered. Djemilev also remind of Mohyliov's official xenophobic statements in local press against the Crimean Tatar population for which Mejlis has already prepared a petition to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. Ukrainska Pravda
Mar. 16 2010 — In Lviv the youth has collected all books of histories of USSR and CPSU as well as other Soviet literature and turned them into recycling, reports TCH.ua. The action became a sort of answer to another action that took place in Simferopol where representatives of organization Proryv and the Natalia Vitrenko Blocburned books of the modern history of Ukraine (photos). During the Lviv's action the local youth also was gathering signatures for the dismissal of the newly elected minister of education Dmytro Tabachnyk. In their first hour they collected over 100 signatures. The Simferopol's books vandalism took place on March 14 and later was condemned by the deputy head of president's administration Hanna Herman. Novynar
Coat of arms of Crimea
Mar. 15 2010 — Speaker of Crimean parliament Anatoliy Hrytsenko and prime-minister of Crimea Viktor Plakida filed a statement of resignation. It was announced by the head of the Standing Committee of Parliament on legal issues, law enforcement and emergency Liudmyla Lubina, says Ukrainska Pravda referring to the announcement at E-Crimea. According to her, the resignation also signed the first deputy speaker of the parliament Hryhoriy Ioffe. Ukrainska Pravda
Mar. 15 2010 — Anti-Tobacco Campaign in Ukraine. No that campaign has nothing to do with cigarettes or tobacco products. That campaign is directed against the newly appointed Minister of Education and Science Dmytro Tabachnyk whose name sounds approximately the same. He is known for his scandalous reputation not only amongst his opponents, but also amongst his allies from the Party of Regions, says Ukrainska Pravda referencing to the announcement of the political party leader For UkraineVyacheslav Kyrylenko. Few regional councils has already or have intention to send the official letter to the President of UkraineViktor Yanukovych, the speaker of Verkhovna RadaVolodymyr Lytvyn, and premier minister Mykola Azarov with a request to free the current minister of education of his duties. Ukrainska Pravda
Jan. 7 2010 — Ukraine is holding a run-off vote in the country's first presidential election since the 2004 Orange Revolution, which brought pro-Western reformer Viktor Yushchenko to power. Opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych faces Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in the vote after neither candidate won more than 50% in January's first round. They won 35% and 25% of votes respectively. President Yushchenko, the one-time hero of the Orange Revolution, came fifth out of a field of 18 candidates, winning just 5.5% of votes. BBC
Dec. 2 2009 — The citizen of Ukraine was shot dead recently on the eastern border of Ukraine with the Russian Federation while trying to cross a non legally existing border as no border agreement between the two countries was ever signed. Why is that? GLAVRED
Nov. 26 2009 — The border officials of the Border Patrol of Russian Federation killed the citizen of Ukraine. The incident took place around 00:30 on November 26 near the settlement of Volchansky Khutors, Kharkiv Oblast. The Russians claim that the resident of Ukraine in his automobile Niva with a trailer driving from Russia back to his home land wanted illegally cross the border between Russia and Ukraine. When he was spotted by the patrol he was requested to stop. However, the trespasser tried to evade and even over run one of the officials. After warning shots the officials opened fire upon the vehicle, but shot the driver as well. One of the rounds got in the driver's neck and the Ukrainian died instantly. Currently the incident is being investigated by the Russian Prosecutor's Office. The Ukrainian border officials already were met with their Russian colleagues. Both the head of the FSB Border Patrol press service Oksana Golova and the commander of the Kharkiv Border Patrol unit Oleksandr Zadorozhny agreed that the authorities were following the letter of law. Podrobnosti.ua (video-footage)
Oct. 6 2009 — The status of religious freedom in Ukraine is still on the highest level although in the community is observed progressive decreasing of a general tolerating level in comparison to the previous years. As was informed by the Institute of the Religious Freedom such conclusions were made by the participants of the Congress of the Board of Directors of the Ukrainian Association of the Religious Freedom (UARS).Novynar
Viktor Yanukovych and Vladimir Putin
Oct. 6 2009 — The People's Deputy, Vasyl Kiselev, (block of Party of Regions) calls on Viktor Yanukovych to leave his post of the party's leader. He stated that on the press-conference according to the UNIAN. Kiselev remarked that he is not against him to run for the post of the President of Ukraine, but at the party's congress he called upon the change of the party's leader. He explained his position by the fact that Yanukovych deviated away from the party's program principles and he knows of better replacement currently in the party ranks. Kiselev also accused Yanukovych of playing games with Yuschenko which might sabotage the upcoming election for presidency.Glavred
Sep. 13 2009 — The local administration has intentions to sell the house where General Oleksiy Pukach was hiding from the authorities told journalists the leader of the Zhytomyr Oblast regional department of AO Svoboda. The property is located in the village of Molochky, Chudniv Raion. As a reminder the general is charged in relation to the all-nationally famous Gongadze murder Affair and was wanted since 2005, but arrested only on July 21, 2009.UNIAN
Sep. 7 2009 — A Holocaust Memorial was opened in Uzhhorod. The memorial was established with a help of goodwill funds and with the intention to immortalize the 17,000 ghetto inhibitants. The event opened the head rabbi of Uzhhorod and Zakarpattia, Menakhem Mendel. UNIAN
Aug. 19 2009 — The establishment of the Mazepa monument seems to get postponed now until sometime in September. Viktor Yuschenko thinks that it happened due to passive activity from the mayor of Poltava. The last one speculated of conflict with Russian Federation if the monument was to be erected on the day of the Battle of Poltava. The construction was postponed until the Independence Day and was ratified by the city council August 22, 2008. UNIAN
Aug. 16 2009 — Crimean Mejlis is preparing picketing on the central square in the capital of the autonomous republic, Simferopol. The informational picketing will be commemorated to the all-European Day of victims of Stalinism and Nazism on August 23, 2009. Crimean Mejlis is the nationally-democratic political citizen organization in Ukraine that primarily fights for the rights of the Crimean Tatars. UNIAN
Aug. 11 2009 — Dmitri Medvedev, the president of the Russian Federation, sent a diplomatic ultimatum to his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yuschenko. In his statement he accused Ukrainian government in unfriendly politics against his country such as the ideological position of Ukraine in regards to the military conflict between Russia and Georgia in the summer of 2008 accenting upon the fact that it was the Ukrainian weapons that were killing the innocent civilians and the Russianpeacekeepers in the region. One of his other accusations were in the regards to the fact that Ukraine also failed to follow the letter of the Russian-Ukrainian agreements in reference to the Black Sea Fleet. And then he accuses Ukrainian government in the discrimination of the Russian language in the Ukrainian press-media, education, science, and culture. He also mentioned what is believed to be a skewed interpretation of the Soviet complex history by the Ukrainian government such as Holodomor and WWII. Then he mentioned some of the Ukrainian economic sins. He also stated that the Russian government has its intentions to open several centers of his own culture and science in Ukraine to warm the cooled brother-like ties with its neighbor. He promised all kinds of support to the Ukrainians in Russia. Ukrainska Pravda
Jun. 20 2009 — In Sevastopol again took place an incident involving the Black Sea fleet of Russian Federation. Couple of years ago in 2007 the administration of this organization was contracted by some 200 citizens of Sevastopol to build four several stories residential buildings. The job was never finished although the financial aspect of the contract was fulfilled as it was a prepaid venture. At this time there are only two buildings that are only finished at 95% states the local newspaper Novyi Sevastopol. The protesters are being simply kicked out by force without any intention to regulate the conflict. The protesters also sent a letters to the President and the Prime-Minister of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin, and also to the Minister of Defense of RF, Anatoliy Serdyukov. Those attempts brought no results. UNIAN
Jun. 20 2009 — In Vinnytsia started the festival of Cossack's Zvychayeva Culture. The event is taking place on the Kempa Island (Festival Island) with participation of over 300 Cossacks and around 2,000 spectators. The festival is organized for the upcoming Ivana Kupala festivities for which were invited guests not only from almost all of the oblasts nationwide, but also Belarus and Poland. The event is planned to consist of the national martial arts, the strength competition featuring David Klionov (Kharkiv) and the group Kozatski vitivky. The sport part of the event will follow by the festival of kobzar song. This program will feature a wide variety of kobsars of the country such as the Honored Artist of UkraineVasyl Lytvyn, kobsars Taras Sylenko, Maksym Slipak, Oleksa Mykolaychuk and others. The next day of the event will feature live participation and familirization with the national folklore of Ukraine. Participation is free, but participants are required to wear a traditional national costumes. UNIAN
Apr. 20 2009 — Valeriy Saratov, speaker of the Sevastopol municipality council, says the upcoming International festival Grand Russian Word (June 2009) has to become the All-Ukrainian as it carries a serious cultural essence. He believes that this event will boost the programs directed at the development of the Russian language in the region. 1+1 reminds that a similar activity has taken place on June 10, 2007 in Simferopol and developed into the pro-Russian protests. 1+1
Apr. 17 2009 — In Odessa, Maksym Chaika, a 20-year old student of the Odessa National University, died due to multiple stabbing wounds. A public affairs representative of the city police authority in Odessa clarifies that the investigation has been started and militsiya is in a search for one of the suspected offenders. Some observers say that Chaika has openly criticized the destructive pro-Russian activities of local politician Igor Markov, his party Rodina, and the TV channel ATB that sympathizes them; demanding from the authorities and SBU to bring them to justice. Ukrinform
Apr. 15 2009 — The installation of a Mazepa monument scheduled to the 300 year anniversary of the Battle of Poltava was canceled, but later postponed. (UNIAN)
November 28, 2008 — Ukraine to remove 10 Soviet-era monuments. Authorities in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv have decided to take down ten Soviet-era monuments, including eight statues of Vladimir Lenin, a municipal official said on Thursday, according to RIA Novosti.(UNIAN)
November 27, 2008 — The prohibition of smoking in schools and clinics was accepted by the executive committee of the municipal council of Kharkiv. Current mayor of Kharkiv, Mykhailo Dobkin, asked the committee to prepare a proposition to the managers of companies of other forms of ownership.(1+1)
November 27, 2008 — Moscow club shows Ukrainian coach the red card. No sooner had the Russian football season ended than the reshuffles began. FC Moscow coach Oleh Blokhin has left the club by mutual consent after just one season in charge.(UNIAN)
November 26, 2008 — A Kharkivian arrived to the bank in his BRDM. A candidate to the mayor of the city of Kharkiv, Petro Kostenko, arrived to the bank to pay his dues on his car loan.(24.ua)
November 26, 2008 — In Crimea was killed a parliamentary deputy. The member of the political party Soyuz(Union), Oleh Pecherytsia, was killed at night on November 12 near his house.(24.ua)
November 26, 2008 — Poll: Blok Yuschenko would miss the parliamentary quote in case of elections. The Fond of civil thought — Ukraine took opinion of 2000 people between November 12-24.(1+1)
November 26, 2008 — The population of Ukraine continues to decline. In the last year it shortned by a quarter of million and amounts to 46.2 million on the October 1, 2008.(1+1)
November 26, 2008 — US cools on NATO path for Georgia, Ukraine. The United States on Tuesday cooled its support for a formal path to help Georgia and Ukraine join NATO, amid opposition not just from Russia but also from Germany and France, according to AFP.(UNIAN)
November 25, 2008 — Sofia Rotaru is on the borderline to the bankruptcy. The famous Ukrainian singer was forced to fire her director Olha Koniakhina due to the financial indecency when she found that the last was involved in the financial affairs outside of her obigations. Now the singer is in debt that is estimated in the millions of dollars.(Utro.ua)
November 25, 2008 — Moscow police beats Tymoshchuk. He was suddenly attacked by OMON, [special police subdivision], employees who pulled the Ukrainian off the tribunes and tried to twist his arms.(UNIAN)
November 25, 2008 — Pirates lower ransom for arms-laden Ukrainian ship. Somali pirates that hold MV Faina seized it exactly two months ago with a cargo of combat tanks and other weaponry said on Tuesday they had lowered their ransom demand to US$3 million (HK$23.4 million).(UNIAN)
November 24, 2008 — Ukrainians honor for Welsh reporter.(UNIAN)
November 24, 2008 — The Crimean parliament seeks answers about the situation regarding the Russian television programing. The Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea asked the Constitutional Court of Ukraine to clarify the situation regarding the presentation of the foreign TV-media.(UNIAN)
November 16, 2008 — Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church headed by the Metropolitan Kyivan and all-Ukraine His Holiness Volodymyr fired the Yepiskop of Sumy and Okhtyrka Illariy (Shyshkovskyi).(UNIAN)
November 16, 2008 — Ukrainian Trade Union Federation (UTUF) informs that in most of the regions of Ukraine there were a series of attempts to overtake the buildings of the regional trade unions.(UNIAN)
October 13, 2008 — Relatives of crew members on a hijacked Ukrainian arms ship demanded that the Ukrainian government stop delaying and just pay a multimillion-dollar ransom to the Somali pirates holding the ship.(IHT)
October 13, 2008 — Ukraine's central bank on Monday limited bank lending and restricted withdrawals from some kinds of retail accounts as the government tried to stem growing doubts about the country's troubled banking sector.(Forbes)
June 6, 2008 — Inflation in Ukraine slowed to 1.3 percent in May compared to 3.1 percent in April, the state statistic agency said on Friday.(The Guardian)
March 27, 2008 — 12 killed in Black Sea crash of UkraineMI-8 border guard helicopter. Poor maintenance and excessive age are to blame.(Canadian Press)
March 24, 2008 — Eighteen Ukrainian seamen were still missing more than 40 hours after their ship collided with a Chinese boat and sank in the waters near Lantau Island in Hong Kong.(Xinhua)
February 15, 2008 — The governments of Ukraine and Russia could sign an energy agreement to avoid the kind of gas rows that have alarmed Europe over the past two years.(Reuters)
February 15, 2008 — Russia will resume a joint project with Ukraine to build An-70 military transport aircraft after an almost 2-year delay in setting up the program.(RIAN)
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February 13, 2008 — Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that Russia could target nuclear missiles at Ukraine if its neighbor and former fraternal republic in the Soviet Union joins the NATO alliance and hosts elements of a missile defense system proposed by the Bush administration.(boston.com)
February 8, 2008 — State-controlled natural gas giant Gazprom said it could cut off Russian gas to Ukraine as early as Tuesday morning if the neighboring countries fail to settle a debt dispute.(Forbes)
February 8, 2008 — Gazprom threatens to halt gas supplies to Ukraine on Feb. 12 for non payment of 1.5 Million dollars outstanding on their account.(RIA Novosit)
February 7, 2008 — An explosion went off in a three-storey apartment building in central Lviv, western Ukraine, injuring at least six.(RIA Novosti)
January 18, 2008 — The H5N1 strain of avian flu, which can be fatal to humans, has been detected in fowl at a farm on Ukraine's Black SeaCrimea peninsula.(Kyiv Post)
January 11, 2008 — Ukraine is beginning on Friday to fulfill election promises of Prime MinisterYulia Tymoshenko (pictured) and repay multi-billion debts of the Soviet Sberkassa to the people.(ITAR-TASS)
November 30, 2007 — Ukraine's AIDS epidemic is the "most severe" in Europe, and is headed towards the general population, not only high-risk groups, UN officials said.(AFP)
November 18, 2007 — The Russian and Ukrainian marine administrations signed temporary regulations on passage of ships through the Kerch Strait.(ITAR-TASS)
November 16, 2007 — Top soccer clubs have called for a new Premier League that would give them greater control, making the game in Ukraine more exciting and more profitable.(Guardian)
November 12, 2007 — Rescuers are searching for 20 sailors missing after a powerful storm hit the Azov and Black Seas on Sunday.(BBC News)
November 5, 2007 — Former Soviet and Ukrainian international defender Oleg Luzhny was appointed interim manager of Ukraine's champions FC Dynamo Kiev after Josef Szabo was hospitalised with a heart attack.(AFP)
October 14, 2007 — Nationalists and leftists scuffled on Sunday at commemorations for a World War IIguerrilla group that fought both the Nazis and the Red Army, an issue still dividing post-Soviet Ukraine more than six decades later.(Reuters)
October 13, 2007 — Between 10 and 13 people were killed in a natural gas explosion that destroyed much of a 10-storey apartment building in Dnipropetrovsk, eastern Ukraine, officials said Sunday.(AFP)
October 5, 2007 — A full tally of Ukraine's election results confirmed Friday that parties loyal to President Viktor Yushchenko and his main Orange Revolution ally won a majority in parliament, but uncertainty loomed over the makeup of the new government.(AP)
Election results in electoral districts.
October 5, 2007 — Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom said it would continue talks with Ukraine next week on gas supplies and Kiev's debts for them, despite earlier announcing that the issues had been resolved.(Reuters)
May 21, 2007 — The U.N. Committee against Torture voiced deep concern over reports of ill-treatment of pre-trial suspects in Ukraine and said it provided "insufficient legal safeguards" for detainees.(AlertNet)
May 20, 2007 — Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko led the country in a minute's silence today to commemorate an estimated 80,000-120,000 victims of the communist regime who were killed by the Soviets between 1936 and 1941.(RadioFreeEurope)
May 12, 2007 — The City hall of the west-Ukrainian city of Lviv passed by a majority vote a decision to pull down Soviet-era monuments.(Mediafax)
May 11, 2007 — The Secretariat of UkrainianPresident says it has evidence that the criminal leaders of Ukraine are cooperating with some of the most radical political forces to split the country.(Interfax)
April 1, 2007 — Tens of thousands of demonstrators called on Ukraine's president Saturday to defeat a challenge from the rival prime minister by dissolving parliament and calling new elections, a move that could throw the former Soviet republic into crisis.(Chicago Tribune)
March 21, 2007 — Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has called to draft a national development strategy through "the consensus of political forces."(Interfax)
March 21, 2007 — NATO experts will discuss with the Ukrainian military issues related to completing planning of experts training course on conducting in April a self-estimation of Ukraine's fleet detachments.(National Radio of Ukraine)
March 20, 2007 — Ukrainian police on Tuesday raided and searched the home of a top leader of the opposition, Yury Lutsenko, for alleged weapons possession violations while serving as the country's top cop.(m&c)
March 16, 2007 — Ukraine's oldest man Hryhoriy Nestor, who was born on March 15, 1891, turns 116 years old.(BBC News)
March 7, 2007 — The Polish and Ukrainian presidents on Wednesday announced plans for a five-country energy summit to discuss transporting Caspian Sea oil westward via Ukraine as their nations try to reduce their dependence on Russian supplies.(Kyiv Post)
March 2, 2007 — Ukraine's president said Friday he supported opening a museum dedicated to Soviet repression in Ukraine, but acknowledged that it would be difficult.(Kyiv Post)
February 22, 2007 — The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has accused MoscowMayorYuriy Luzhkov of interference in internal affairs of Ukraine by his statements at a meeting in Sevastopol on Wednesday.(ITAR-TASS)
February 20, 2007 — The State Veterinary Department of Ukraine has temporarily forbidden the poultry import to Ukraine from the Moscow Oblast of Russia, as there are speculations that the birds may have fallen ill with avian flu.(UNIAN)
February 16, 2007 — Ukraine, Lithuania and Belarus said that they will establish an oil supply system that will serve as an alternative to Russian energy supplies to secure soft landing in case Moscow cuts deliveries.(mosnews)
February 12, 2007 — A former Ukrainian foreign minister said Monday that Russia's purported decision to blacklist Volodymyr Ohryzko is an attempt to foil his confirmation by parliament as the new foreign minister.(RIA Novosti)
February 12, 2007 — The Justice Ministry plans to complete suggestions and proposals from society and to submit for consideration to the Cabinet new version of the draft bill "On introduction of changes to the Law of Ukraine" up to March 1, 2007.(ForUm)
February 9, 2007 — People's deputies of Ukraine have given its first reading to the draft bill on amendments to the Law on Cabinet of Ministers and on local state administration by 240 votes.(ForUM)
February 9, 2007 — Socialists revealed Yushchenko’s plan to destabilize the situation.(ForUM)
February 7, 2007 — Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said that it had demanded an explanation after Russia barred entry to a Ukrainian lawmaker Petro Poroshenko.(Kyiv Post)
February 7, 2007 — The Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada passed a bill banning any operations with the Ukrainian gas transporting system; a total of 430 out of 450 MPs voted for amending the Ukrainian law On Pipeline Transportation.(REGNUM)
February 3, 2007 — Ukrainian PresidentViktor Yushchenko has called on Ukraine's medical community and public organizations to promote healthy lifestyles, including alcohol and smoking abstinence.(Interfax)
February 2, 2007 — Ukraine'sAerosvit and UIA may cancel all flights due to 40% fuel price increase.(AP)
January 26, 2007 — Russia's OAO Gazprom sought to assure jittery Europeans on Friday that new deals for the sale of natural gas to Belarus and Ukraine would prevent any more disruptions to Western Europe.(Canada)
Ethnic divisions in Chernivtsi Oblast with Ukrainian, Romanian, Russian (Lipovan), and Jewish areas depicted in white, blue, red, and yellow respectively.
January 12, 2007 — Tymoshenko: “Our Ukraine” shames Ukraine world over, Our Ukraine blocking the Parliamentary tribune.(For-ua)
January 11, 2007 — The transit of crude oil via the southern branch of the Druzhba oil pipeline that is located in Ukraine has resumed in full, adviser to the UkrTransNafta CEO Oleksandr Dykusarov told Interfax.(Interfax)
January 11, 2007 — President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko has signed the law to extend the moratorium on sale of farmland, press office of the President reported.(ForUm)
January 6, 2007 — Two sailors, including one Russian, from a cargo ship died and eight were hospitalized with poisoning, apparently caused by a chemical reaction, off Ukraine's Black Sea coast, emergencies services said Saturday.(RIA Novosti)
January 3, 2006 — Ukraine is believed to be sitting on more gaseous fuel than its principal supplier of natural gas, Turkmenistan. Estimates give Ukraine at least three times the amount of natural gas in Turkmenistan, and four times that in Russia's Shtokman gas field.(Radio Free Europe)
December 29, 2005 — An exhibit of Cuban posters created in the decades of the 70s and 80s have become the main attraction of the Maisternaya Art Gallery in the house of the outstanding Ukrainian painter in Kiev since Thursday.(Plenglish)
August 28, 2006 — Ukrainian-Russian intergovernmental commission completes investigation of Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crash. According to preliminary data, the TU-154 crash was caused by the strong turbulence zone, which the plane entered. (ForUm)
August 22, 2006 — Russian airliner crashes in eastern Ukraine 45km (30miles) north of Donetsk. 170 people were on board, including 10 crew and 39 children. (BBC News)
August 18, 2006 — Ukraine opens up files on Stalin-era famines. The SBU declassified over 130 state archive files.(RFE/RL)
August 16, 2006 — Interim natural gas deal reached between Russia and Ukraine. Terms for 2007 still need to be secured by Putin and Yanukovych. (VOA News)
August 2, 2006 — Yushchenko agreed to officially propose the parliament nominated Yanukovych for PM after the latter signed up to a declaration of principles safeguarding Ukraine's policies of closer integration with Europe and market reforms. (AFP)
May 20, 2006 — Ukraine's foreign minister, Borys Tarasyuk, said Saturday the country's aim of full membership in the European Union remained unchanged.
May 20, 2006 — Ukraine can count on support from the U.S. if it wishes to reconsider its gas agreements with Russia, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst has said.
May 20, 2006 — Ukraine owes Russia USD 400 million for natural gas supplies.
May 19, 2006 — Ukrainian cultural figures and celebrities criticized efforts Friday to grant the Russian language special status, calling it an act of war against Ukrainian.
May 19, 2006 — Ukraine has already started fulfilling a NATO membership action plan, even though the country has yet to be invited to join the alliance.
April 20, 2006 — Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Wednesday called for further support from the international community so that the country can recover from the continuing effects of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
April 20, 2006 — US party asks for Ukraine's participation in establishing nuclear regulation body in Iraq.
April 20, 2006 — Vanco Energy, a privately held Houston, Texas-based oil and gas company that specializes in deep-water oil and gas exploration and development, has won the bid for developing a gas deposit on the sea shelf off the Ukrainian part of the Black Sea.
December 19, 2005 — Talks between the prime ministers of Russia and Ukraine failed on Monday to bring the two neighbors closer to a deal on gas supplies amid an intensifying row that has strained relations between the two former Soviet republics. (Xinhua)
July 9, 2005 — the G8 leaders also increased their pledges to approximately $1 billion to fund construction of a new protective encasement in Ukraine to cover the remnants of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor (pictured) to improve safety and security.
June 30, 2005 — Ukraine is making it easier for U.S.nationals to obtain visas. Visas would no longer be required by U.S. citizens making a second trip within six months. Citizens of EU states and Switzerland have been allowed visa-free entry to Ukraine on an experimental basis from May to September.
June 27, 2005 — the Ukrainian Parliament registered a bill that will require government agencies, and state-controlled companies, to give preference to open source software.
June 15, 2005 — the European Union and Ukraine agreed on the cooperation of the development of Galileo, the European civilian global positioning satellite system. The agreement would allow Ukrainian companies to join the EU financed development of Galileo.
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