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So NU led by Vyacheslav Kyrylenko have formed a election bloc with Yuriy Lutsenko's National Self-Defence 'party'. Yuliya Tymosh...

A law court of Kiev has partially satisfied a legal action submitted by joint stock company "Dniprovagonmash" and ruled that the s...

Russia and Italy have signed a memorandum of understanding to build a gas pipeline between their countries - the so-called ''South ...

The National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine website , [wittily entitled http://www.rainbow.gov.ua/ after 'Rada Narodnoyi Bezpe...

Today's 'FT' runs an interesting story [see below] about monopolist gas trader RosUkrEnergo, and the problems being encountered ...

Latest O.P. from ' Segodnya ' Yellow is June, green is May. Only 28% of Ukrainians think that the early elections will solve the c...

There is continued speculation of rifts in PoR between Viktor Yanukovych and 'king of Donbas' Rinat Akhmetov; and that after the VR ...

The second summit of the Organization for democracy and economic development - GUAM [Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan Moldova] is taking place i...

"..one thing has become apparent: either politics is one big bluff, or high society life is one big hypocrisy..Where else can today...

On Saturday Sir Elton John is staging a concert on the Maydan in Kyiv, but today president Yushchenko and his wife opened an exhibition of p...

PoR have had to respond to president Yushchenko praising Rinat Akhmetov for helping regulate the current political crisis. There had been si...

Ukrainska Pravda today publish portions of leaked briefing material and draft resolutions that are supposedly to be presented at tomorrow...

At a press conference yesterday, president Yushchenko, in a convoluted and long-winded manner, offered some praise to Rinat Akhmetov. ...

The front page splash story in Rinat Akhmetov's 'Segodnya' newspaper was about RosUkrEnergo big-shot Dmytro Firtash's step-s...

Today's 'Gazeta po Kiyevski' carries an article entitled 'Russian roulette', speculating whether RosUkrEnergo will becom...

An article in today's 'Gazeta po Kiyevski' claims Yanukovych has finished with Moroz and PoR are preparing for the early electio...

Discontent with all Ukrainian politicians and their continuing endless squabbling is expressed in an article in the popular 'Donbass...

RFE/RL reports : "Parliament speaker Oleksandr Moroz said at a session of the Verkhovna Rada on June 5 that those lawmakers from the op...

I quite enjoyed reading this article in 'Kyiv Weekly', entitled Political showdown "Ukrainian style - senseless, yet compromisi...

This rather melodramatic story appeared in today's "Hazeta po Kiyevski". As usual I've loosely translated or paraphrased p...