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Russia: Ukraine Can't Be In Both EU, Customs Union 27 Aug 2013 | 10:44 am
MOSCOW, Russia -- Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov says Ukraine cannot be in the European Union and the Russian-led Customs Union at the same time. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medv...
Ukraine And Japan To Monitor Chernobyl, Fukushima From Space 27 Aug 2013 | 10:01 am
KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukraine and Japan on Monday agreed to launch a joint satellite project to track the state of crippled Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear plants, sites of the world's greatest nuclear dis...
Ukraine Marks 22nd Anniversary Of Independence 26 Aug 2013 | 10:27 am
KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukraine has marked 22nd anniversary of its independence. Back in 1991, parliament declared sovereignty, following a failed putsch in Moscow. Now, there are mixed reactions and feelin...
Ukraine Leader Ignores Putin Warning On EU Path 26 Aug 2013 | 10:07 am
KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich on Saturday re-affirmed his commitment to signing key agreements with the European Union, including on trade, despite a threat by Russia's Vladim...
Ukrainian Activists Draw Attention To Little-Known WWII Tragedy 25 Aug 2013 | 11:22 am
KIEV, Ukraine -- In 1941, as Nazi German troops swept through Soviet-era Ukraine, Josef Stalin's secret police blew up a hydroelectric dam in the southern city of Zaporizhzhya to slow the Nazi advance...
Azarov To Head To Moscow For Trade Talks 25 Aug 2013 | 10:30 am
KIEV, Ukraine -- Prime Minister Mykola Azarov will travel to Moscow on Monday for talks with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev as worries remain that the trade dispute between the two countries ...
Trading Insults 24 Aug 2013 | 10:50 am
KIEV, Ukraine -- Nobody could accuse Sergei Glazyev of ambiguity. New Russian trade restrictions with Ukraine were a warning against the “suicidal” step of signing an association agreement with the Eu...
Meet The Women Putting Ukraine On the Fashion Map 24 Aug 2013 | 10:25 am
KIEV, Ukraine -- It is 2006 in Ukraine: I’m 17, smoking a cigarette with my friend who is wearing a shirt with a suspicious-looking “Channel” logo. Today marks the 22nd year of Ukrainian Independence...
Ukraine Plans To Open Slovakian Gas Import Route In September 23 Aug 2013 | 10:59 am
KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukraine plans in September to sign an agreement that would open imports of European natural gas via Slovakia, the Energy and Coal Industry Minister said Wednesday. The agreement with...
Geoffrey Pyatt Appointed U.S. Ambassador To Ukraine 23 Aug 2013 | 10:18 am
WASHINGTON, DC -- Geoffrey Pyatt of La Jolla, California was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine on July 30 at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey...
