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Supporters and opponents of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich scuffled as both sides held large rallies in the capital Kiev on Saturday, police and local media said.

Thousands of believers from all over Ukraine and abroad took part in the first Divine Liturgy in the newly built Cathedral dedicated to the Savior's Transfiguration in Pochaiv Lavra, Ternopil region.

Irina Dvorovenko , a Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theatre since 2000, will give her final performance with the Company tonight, May 18, 2013 at the Metropolitan Opera House in the role of Tatiana in Onegin.

For a year the participants of the project have been looking for real clay-wall huts across the city, which are proof of former Cossack fame of Sloboda Ukraine and typical traces of the first migrants who built specifically this kind of houses starting from the 17th century.

The Migratory Bird Day was celebrated throughout the world. As much as 70 to 80 percent of Ukrainian avian species belong to this category "Almost all birds are back in Ukraine already.

Russia could agree to assign Ukraine with the status of observer in the Customs Union, Ukrainian President in 1994-2005 Leonid Kuchma said.

Russian band presents song about Armenia's Lake Sevan http://style.news.am/eng/news/4971/russian-band-presents-song-about-armenias-lake-sevan-video.html MAY 15, 12:33 The Russian musical band Sansara presented its song called `Sevan,' which has an Armenian sound and theme.

We received an unusual email last week. Michaella Ortega wrote to tell us that Marlon Recamata, who confessed to shooting her father, Philippine journalist Gerardo Ortega , in 2011, had been convicted and sentenced to life for the crime.

In the middle of May Kyiv is in usual blossom of chestnuts and lilacs. There is even a fairytale about how this plant appeared in nature.

Hamburg Hafen und Logistik AG's profit jumped 13.2 percent in the first quarter , as Hamburg's biggest stevedore increased container traffic by 5 percent on sharply higher Asian and Baltic shipments.

A benefit concert to help fund treatment for a boy with autism will be held at the Mandell Jewish Community Center's Herbert Gilman Theater on Sunday, May 19.

Sen Quinn Jr is offering to provide 75,000 towards purging his contempt of court orders restraining stripping of assets from the Quinn family's international property group, the High Court has heard.

The European Commission is to clear the way on Wednesday for Ukraine to sign trade and political agreements with the European Union , while stressing no deals are likely without further democratic reforms, diplomats said on Tuesday.

The heads of most Christian Churches in Ukraine, except the primate of Ukrainian Orthodox Church, have asked the country's President Viktor Yanukovych to pardon the former Prime Minister and head of the Ukrainian political opposition, Yulia Tymoshenko.

Lithuania, which takes over the rotating EU presidency on 1 July, has given Ukraine extra time to meet the Union's conditions for signing a long-delayed association agreement.

The Azerbaijani Diaspora in Ukraine, including the Congress of Ukrainian Azerbaijanis and other Azerbaijani organizations, have intensified their cooperation in recent years, which is of concern to Armenians, CUA chairman Rovshan Taghiyev told Trend, commenting on the assault and injury of a businessman in Kiev, a citizen of Ukraine, Azeri-born ... (more)

The events at theUglegorsk thermal power plant set the whole country in turmoil.

CBS 7 Newsroom May 13, 2013 Odessa - Odessa firefighters battled a blaze in North Odessa.

Sevastopol hosted a naval parade at the weekend marking the 230th anniversary of the founding of Russia's Black Sea Fleet.

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