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Speculation from an article entitled: "Will they 'nail' the president?" [a play on the word 'prybyut', i.e. PoR a...

On Friday morning PM Tymoshenko unexpectedly entered the State Property Fund [SPF] building, together with BYuT deputy Andriy Portnov. With...

Speaking at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg several days ago, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said ...

[Update: See 20th April TV interview with Yulia Tymoshenko, mentioned below, here. ] Here's a rough translation of 'Segodnya's...

Now the NATO Bucharest summit has ended and Ukraine's NATO entry put onto the back-burner, PoR will quieten down the rhetoric on this is...

'Segodnya' has just reported that BYuT press service have released a declaration containing an ultimatum to President Yushchenko. ...

Segodnya runs a punchy piece on the turmoil inside the parliamentary coalition, together with a telling photograph. I've done a rough t...

In a 15 minute interview on TV channel 1+1 yesterday, a rather tired-looking PM Tymoshenko revealed that RosUkrEnergo, at the insistence of...

Head of the "Yedynyi Tsentr" party, Ihor Kril [who, with head of Presidential secretariat Viktor Baloha, is associated with a poss...

The battle between the President's secretariat and PM Tymoshenko is gaining revs. The official Presidential site today carries this : Yu...

Pre-term majoral and local government elections will take place in Kyiv at the end of May. No agreed joint candidate has been chosen yet to ...

A recent article in 'Ekonomicheskie Izvestia' explains that even though President Yushchenko has criticized Tymoshenko's admini...

I've loosely translated this from the latest 'Segodnya' newspaper: Yushchenko and Tymoshenko: the ceasefire has ended After the...

President Yushchenko has today annulled a March 2004 ukaz of his predecessor, Leonid Kuchma, appointing Syuzanna Stanik a Constitutional Co...

President Yushchenko, perhaps using President Bush's visit and the Bucharest NATO bash as cover, today restored the disgraceful Syuzann...

Last week the State Property Fund threatened to suspend the planned privatization of several state-owned companies by the Tymoshenko governm...

"It seems to me that during the Bucharest summit Ukraine will not receive an invitation on the action plan to obtain NATO membership. W...

Well worth watching: Yulia Tymoshenko quizzed for the best part of one hour by some of Ukraine's top journalists on a 27th March "Y...

On 18th March in the Supreme Rada [VR] 246 deputies of 441 registerd voted in favour of extraordinary elections mayoral and city council for...

Prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko has completed 100 days in office, a period, according to 'Gazeta po Kiyevski' characterized by confl...