breakingnews
12.11.2008, 11:48
Ukrainian politics descended into farce on Wednesday when MPs resorted to throwing punches in the chamber. The row broke out over the dismissal of Parliamentary Speaker, Arseny Yatsenyuk. He was eventually sacked when 233 MPs voted to remove him, with 226
19.11.2008, 10:54
While President Yushchenko is still licking his wounds over the never-ending political games in Ukraine, an on-going investigation into his poisoning – if it indeed was a poisoning as he insists it was – has taken an unexpected turn.
19.11.2008, 13:58
Facing an uneasy decision to choose between new weapons and keeping soldiers fed and clothed the head of Ukrainian Defence Ministry Yury Yekhanurov has chosen the latter.
25.11.2008, 07:05
The Ukrainian gas company, Naftonaz, has agreed to pay a portion of the $2.4 billion gas debt it owes to Gazprom by December 1. That is according to officials at the Russian energy giant. The announcement came shortly after Dmitry Medvedev instructed Gazp
09.12.2008, 16:40
Politicians in Ukraine have formed a new three-way majority coalition, made up of blocs led by the Prime Minister, the President and the new parliamentary speaker Vladimir Litvin.
22.11.2008, 20:04
With Ukraine suffering from the global financial crisis, officials in Kiev have been criticised for spending $23m on marking the 75th anniversary of the Great Famine of the 1930s.
Published: 01 December, 2008, 16:36
Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko has refused to hold early parliamentary elections due to the economic crisis, the head of the presidential secretariat said in an interview with Kiev’s ITCV TV channel.
