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Ukraine's youngest leading presidential hopeful says he flies economy class, vows not to take advice from either Moscow or Washington and promises to fight corruption with "a truncheon in my hands."
Stone-faced Nazi soldiers wielding rifles marched Kiev's sobbing Jews to be killed in the Babi Yar ravine as passers-by held back tears in a dramatic theatrical performance meant to mark the anniversary of the massacre Tuesday.
The lawmaker strode through parliament, smiling politely and clutching a chair — his contribution to a barricade designed to paralyze proceedings.
A breakaway Orthodox Christian church in Ukraine is pressing its call for recognition as a legitimate entity independent of the Moscow-based church that dominates the faith in the former Soviet Union, officials said Monday.
Unfaithful spouses in France beware: Passionate text messages sent to mistresses and lovers can now be used as evidence against you in a divorce.
French tourists heading to risky foreign destinations could be asked to foot the bill if the French government comes to their rescue.
The father of a French academic on trial in Iran said Monday he hopes she can come home within weeks as the government continued efforts to secure her unconditional release.
The lawyer for the family of a slain Ukrainian journalist said Friday she doubts the arrest of a key suspect will help police track down those responsible for the crime.
Vice President Joe Biden is visiting Georgia and Ukraine starting Monday, meeting leaders eager for further reassurance that Washington still supports their joining NATO and that its effort to warm relations with Russia won't come at their expense.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Sunday that talks with the main opposition party on forming a coalition have collapsed, indicating a continuation of the turmoil that has plagued the country's politics and hobbled its response to the severe economic crisis.
British art provocateur Damien Hirst will mount the largest exhibition ever of his trademark fish skeletons, skull paintings and dead animals in a major show in Ukraine's capital.
Thousands of Ukrainians jammed Kiev's main square Friday to protest government policies amid a worsening financial crisis, as tensions builds ahead of presidential elections later this year.
Ukraine's beleaguered president proposed constitutional changes Tuesday that would increase the president's powers — amendments analysts say could moderate the contentiousness that frequently paralyzes politics here.
Hundreds of angry Kiev residents on Thursday picketed the office of the city's increasingly unpopular mayor, an eccentric millionaire who sings at rallies, poses in Speedos to show off his good health and goes by the nickname Cosmos.
A widespread scare about vaccine side effects in Ukraine has led to a sharp drop in immunizations that could result in disease outbreaks spreading beyond the former Soviet republic, international and local health officials say.
After Ukraine's currency collapsed in the global meltdown, so did Valery Ilyin's household finances — and, he fears, his family's dream of a bigger home.
Twenty joyful but exhausted sailors stepped off a plane and into the arms of their loved ones Friday — a happy ending to an emotionally searing four-month hijack drama off the coast of Somalia.
The Holocaust has a landscape engraved in the mind's eye: barbed-wire fences, gas chambers, furnaces.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko indicated Friday he would like to revisit a hard-won natural gas deal with Russia later this year because the terms will further undermine his country's battered economy.
The Ukrainian prime minister is heading to Moscow to sign a deal aimed at restoring gas supplies to Europe.
Its paint is peeling, its grounds are scruffy and there are no Secret Service agents in sight. But the 19th-century mansion otherwise bears an uncanny resemblance to one of the world's most famous residences — the White House.
In a softly lit room, giggly teenagers rise from their desks and sing a hymn. Then the leader of the youth group starts a detailed reading of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's state of the nation address.
The currency has lost half of its value, tens of thousands face layoffs, residents in the capital are bundling up in winter clothes as the heat sporadically goes out and Russia is threatening to cut off gas supplies.
Ukraine is on the right track in implementing policies it had committed to when accepting an emergency loan to survive its worst economic crisis in a decade, an official from the International Monetary Fund said in an interview published Friday.
Ukraine is unlikely to return more than a dozen paintings by Western European artists brought here from a German museum as Soviet war trophies during World War II, an official said Thursday.
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