Ukraine News

A Ukrainian mayor who said Jews are to blame for all of the country's problems can run for president.

An election observation mission from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will start on Monday monitoring the presidential election campaign in Ukraine.

A RME transport plane Il-76 has airlifted a humanitarian cargo with the anti-flu medicine 'Arbidol' to Kiev on Tuesday.

On the Pushkinskaya Street, there is a one-story building, in which Stalin stayed during the civilian war in Ukraine.

Vladimir Gapor is a plumber by trade, but now he's a scavenger, prying bits of scrap steel from the ruins of his old factory and selling them for a pittance.

EUOBSERVER / COMMENT - Ukrainian politics is like Mexican telenovelas. The characters are the same for years and years: charming but cunning Tymoshenko, dull but pragmatic Yanukovych, idealistic but weak Yushchenko, plus the whole plethora of old faces from Litvin to Tihipko.

Flu quarantine in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Ternopil regions will be cancelled from November 23, the regional anti-epidemic commissions decided.

ST.PETERSBURG, Russia -- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says Russia must modernize its economy and reduce its dependence on raw materials exports.

" [When president Putin was] Asked at a news conference [following his meeting with PM Tymoshenko] to comment on Saakashvili's current visit to Kiev, the Russian strongman premier known for his bad boy image and sharp tongue said the Georgian leader and his host, Ukraine's fiercely pro-Western president Viktor Yushchenko, should meet without ties.

On November 21st, 2009, Ukrainian democrats will be celebrating the fifth anniversary of the start of demonstrations in Kyiv which led to larger political developments that came to reshape our understanding of post-Soviet politics.

President Viktor Yushchenko notes the importance of developing a ferry service in the Black Sea between Ukraine and Georgia 'Kerch - Poti ', the head of state has addressed Ukraine-Georgia Business Forum on Thursday, according to UKRINFORM .

Bulgarian Prime Minister Borisov and Anton Kisse , Chair of the Association of Bulgarians of Ukraine, arrive at a reception for the Bulgarian medical emergency team that returned from Odessa on Monday.

Russia has agreed to ease the terms under which it supplies gas to Ukraine, in a deal which Moscow says should prevent disruption in coming months, BBC reported.

Visiting Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said Ukraine is "a hard nut to crack" for Russia.

Consultations between Prime Ministers Vladimir Putin of Russia and Yulia Timoshenko of Ukraine have begun in Yalta, the Crimea.

Russia has agreed to ease the terms under which it supplies gas to Ukraine, in a deal which Moscow says should prevent disruption in coming months.

NATO will assess in December the progress reached by Ukraine and Georgia on the way towards a membership action plan .

KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukrainea TMs presidential election seems destined to be decided in a run-off, according to a poll by the Ukrainian Project System.

Georgia, Tbilisi, Nov. 18 / Trend News N.Kirtzkhalia /

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili will visit Ukraine on Nov.18, to attend the opening ceremony of the new building of the Georgian Embassy in Kiev.

A United Arab Emirates delegation plans to visit Ukraine in two weeks' time to look at opportunities to lease farmland for food security, Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko told Reuters.