Ukraine News

Ukraine's leader Viktor Yushchenko on Sunday dismissed the idea a January election should be delayed because of flu fears and appeared to accept there would be no more IMF funds forthcoming until after the vote, Reuters reported.

In the dense forests of the idyllic Danube island of Persin, home to the endangered sea eagle and the pygmy cormorant, lie the ghastly remains of a communist-era death camp.

A pneumonia believed to be similar to the H1N1 virus has killed 86 people in Ukraine as of Wednesday, according to the country's Ministry of Health.

President Viktor Yushchenko had a phone conversation with the European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, according to the president's press office.

Ukraine is in the midst of what some might call swine-flu hysteria. The country is in virtual lockdown mode, with the government closing schools, universities and movie theaters and banning all public gatherings until the end of November.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Thursday met here with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko, pledging to further strengthen bilateral strategic partnership, according to Xinhua .

The death toll in Ukraine's flu outbreak continued to rise on Thursday. A total of 95 persons have died from flu-related symptoms since the disease struck Ukraine's western provinces late last month, said Zinovy Mytnik, vice health minister, in comments reported by the Interfax news agency.

In last 24 hours, an unknown virus infected another 37 thousand and killed 12 more people.

Azerbaijan, Baku, Nov. 5 /Trend News, M.Aliyev/

The Ukrainian Justice Ministry has registered the World Azerbaijanis Congress (WAC) in the country, WAC told Trend News.

Ukrainian state energy company Naftogaz will pay for Russian gas on time, Energy Minister Yuri Prodan said on Wednesday.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has ordered the government to send 20 tons of humanitarian aid to Ukraine by Boeing-767 aircraft with delivery on November 6, Ukrainian ambassador to Azerbaijan Boris Klimchuk told reporters in Baku.

A A A' Russia and Slovakia tightened their borders with Ukraine on Tuesday as the World Health Organization began investigating a suspected swine flu outbreak.

Georgia, Tbilisi, Nov. 3 / Trend News N.Kirtzkhalia /

Georgia is ready to provide humanitarian aid to Ukraine in connection with the worsening of epidemic situation in the country.

Russia has warned EU president Sweden of possible disruption to natural gas supplies to European consumers because of problems with main transit nation Ukraine over energy payments, Sweden said in a statement.

Ukraine closed schools and banned public meetings including election rallies and restricted travel on Friday for a three-week period after confirming its first death from H1N1 flu, according to Reuters .

By David L. Stern - GlobalPost

The slogans - pithy, powerful and simple, just black and red lettering on a white background - first appeared this summer and are now plastered throughout the country on street banners, billboards and posters.

Picture taken from a high vantage point late Saturday Oct. 24, 2009, showing a aerial view of supporters of Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko during the opening ceremony of the congress of her Batkivshchyna party, in Kiev Ukraine.

Campaigners against global warming have drawn on an arsenal of visually startling tactics over the years, from posing nude on a Swiss glacier to scaling smokestacks at coal-fired power plants.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine introduces quarantine in nine western Oblasts of Ukraine.

Ukraine could again have difficulty paying for Russian natural gas, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday, triggering speculation of a new gas crisis might between the two former Soviet neighbors.