Ukraine intends to gradually reduce the volume of gas bought from Russia starting from 2013. Ukraine intends to gradually reduce the volume of gas bought from Russia starting from 2013, Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister...

Ukraine, struggling to pay rising bills for Russian gas and with some areas suffering power rationing due to the severe cold, could halve its gas use by using it more efficiently. KIEV — Ukraine, struggling to pay rising...

SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine — Anti-Western activists in southern Ukraine protested the arrival of a U.S. Navy ship that will take part in joint military drills. Some 100 mostly elderly protesters rallied in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol against Ukraine's cooperation...

Ukraine's Prime Minister Mykola Azarov reiterated that his country wouldn't join a Russia-led customs union after the two countries failed to review their natural gas agreement and Russia banned imports of some Ukrainian cheese...

In the run-up to a fresh round of gas price negotiations Ukraine promised Friday that there would be no resumption of a energy war with Russia, despite an escalating public spat between Gazprom and Kiev's Naftogaz. In the run-up to a fresh round of gas price negotiations Ukraine promised Friday...

Ukraine accused Russia on Monday of blocking Ukrainian cheese imports for political reasons in an escalation of a food-quality dispute. KIEV — Ukraine accused Russia on Monday of blocking Ukrainian cheese imports for political...

Ukraine's finance minister resigned Wednesday as support for the government has fallen in the wake of a waning economy and the slow pace of reforms. KIEV — Ukraine's finance minister resigned Wednesday as support for the...

Ukraine picked JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley among lead managers for its first eurobond sale in a year as the government seeks to bolster its public finances amid higher energy costs. Ukraine picked JPMorgan Chase and Morgan...

Russian football fans will be able to fly to the European Football Championship in Ukraine and Poland for free. Russian football fans will be able to fly to the European Football Championship in Ukraine and Poland for free, Aeroflot and Transaero have said. The commitment came after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told reporters that...

... practically all the information about what has a positive effect and what has a negative one. And we are not ruling out the possibility of joining the customs union," Azarov said at a press conference on Friday. Russia has been seeking to expand into Ukraine the borders of the common economic space that has seen free trade opened between Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia beginning this year. Azarov also said a solution will be found this year regarding gas prices, over which Russia and Ukraine have been...

... strictly in accordance with our legislation," Onishchenko said. On Jan. 12, Onishchenko said his service had concluded that "in the fourth quarter of 2011 there was a noticeable deterioration in the quality standards of the cheese supplied from Ukraine." (MT)

... has a negative one. And we are not ruling out the possibility of joining the customs union," Azarov said. Azarov also said a solution will be found this year regarding gas prices, over which Russia and Ukraine have been deadlocked. "In 2011 we made do, but in 2012 we have set ourselves the goal of solving this problem," he said, Interfax reported. (MT)

... Sarkozy, a rap producer in his twenties, has been taken to a hospital after feeling ill, French Embassy spokesman Emmanuel Berard said. Anna Osipchuk, a spokeswoman for the city administration, said Sarkozy had food poisoning apparently contracted outside Ukraine, and was to be flown home to France on Wednesday. Sarkozy, also known as DJ Mosay, was in Odessa to perform at an elite club called Tchaikovsky on Tuesday, but the show was canceled after he fell ill, the club said. Sarkozy is the French president's...

A man born in the Ukraine was sentenced to 200 years in prison for a violent stabbing rampage that left four people dead in New York City last winter. A man born in Ukraine was sentenced to 200 years in prison for a violent stabbing rampage that left...

Supporters of jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko disrupted the start of a new parliamentary season in Kiev on Tuesday, chanting "Freedom for Yulia!" throughout a keynote speech by President Viktor Yanukovych. Deputies belonging to her party leapt to their feet, unfurling a banner bearing Tymoshenko's portrait and began to chant as Yanukovych took his place at the rostrum. They kept up a noisy barrage for 30 minutes while Yanukovych, raising his voice to make his address...

Ukraine's president showed no mercy Friday for imprisoned former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, despite increasing fears that her case will hurt his country's struggling economy and its relations with the European Union. DAVOS, Switzerland...

He is a descendant of Russia's last tsar — and has lived in the jungle, starred in Bollywood movies and trained as a stuntman. KIEV, Ukraine — He is a descendant of Russia's last tsar — and has lived in the jungle, starred in Bollywood movies and trained as a stuntman. Now Scottish photographer Francis Mathew is in a new adventure: finding a bride on a reality TV show in...

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... importing more gas from Algeria to offset lower Russian supplies, Eni chief executive Paolo Scaroni told state radio GR-1 on Sunday, adding that he saw no shortage problems in the country for the next few days. Gazprom pointed the finger at transit nation Ukraine. Deputy chief executive Alexander Medvedev said in a statement Thursday that Ukraine, which transships most of Gazprom's gas bound for Europe and buys the fuel for its own needs, was taking Russian gas above contracted levels. "Ukraine is...

... fine line” when he rejected all early chances of compromise to free her. In an interview, Yevgenia Tymoshenko urged the West to consider applying personal sanctions against officials in Yanukovych’s government, such as visa bans, to stop Ukraine from driving itself further into isolation. “It [the situation] is unpredictable now. … They have crossed the line where my mother’s life now is at risk,” said Yevgenia, speaking in English in Kiev at the riverside headquarters...