- 17:51 14/01/2013
Tajik law-enforcers seized some six metric tons of drugs in the country in 2012, up 41.1 percent since 2011, a spokeswoman for the country’s drug control agency said on Monday.
- 14:26 14/01/2013
Moscow hopes that Ukraine’s rotating presidency of the OSCE will facilitate Europe's unification, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.
- 20:03 13/01/2013
Four activists of Ukrainian feminist group Femen staged a topless protest for gay rights at the Vatican on Sunday as Pope Benedict XVI was reciting his prayer, local media said.
- 16:45 09/01/2013
Ukraine’s jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko spent the night in the bathroom at her hospital following her declaration of “civil disobedience” on January 8, Ukrainian news agency UNIAN reported citing a penitentiary system official.
- 20:41 08/01/2013
Ukraine’s jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Tuesday declared ‘civil disobedience’ at the prison hospital where she is undergoing treatment.
- 14:41 06/01/2013
Rescuers have removed two bodies of miners from a coalmine in the town of Kirovskoye in eastern Ukraine, which was hit by a methane gas explosion three days ago, local emergencies said.
- 16:10 04/01/2013
Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is to play Serena Williams in the final of the Brisbane International after defeating Ukraine’s Lesia Tsurenko in Friday’s semifinal.
- 11:49 04/01/2013
Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych has waded into the heated debate on international adoption that followed the US Magnitsky Act and Russia's response, stressing that the issue of adoption must not be politicized.
- 15:10 03/01/2013
Rescuers found the body of one of three miners missing after a methane gas explosion at a coalmine in the town of Kirovskoye in eastern Ukraine, the Donetsk Region Prosecutor’s Office reported on Thursday.
- 13:51 03/01/2013
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Kiev on January 13-14 to discuss Ukraine’s participation in the Customs Union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara said on Thursday.
- 18:54 01/01/2013
Ukraine’s priority for its time as chair of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will be resolving long-running conflicts, Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara said on Tuesday.
- 17:44 01/01/2013
Over a hundred supporters of Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine’s former prime minister, ushered in the New Year outside the hospital where she is undergoing treatment, the party press service confirmed Tuesday.
- 04:22 30/12/2012
Ukraine will suspend mandatory conscription in 2013 as a step toward a transition to a fully professional army, the country’s Defense Minister Pavlo Lebedev said.
- 16:24 26/12/2012
The Ukrainian TV network Rada announced on Wednesday its readiness to pay broadcasting fees to boxing-champion-cum-lawmaker Vitali Klitschko if he participates in the fistfights that periodically break out in the nation’s parliament.
- 14:00 26/12/2012
Ukraine’s national energy company Naftogaz will receive a $3.7 billion loan from China to finance a program to substitute gas with coal, the Ukrainian government’s press office said on Wednesday.
- 23:07 25/12/2012
Five people died when a Mi-8 helicopter of Ukraine’s internal troops crashed in central Ukraine’s Kirovograd Region on Tuesday, the country’s interior ministry said in a statement.
- 20:05 25/12/2012
Sometimes even a banana can be deadly – as a 19-year-old resident of the Ukrainian town of Grebenka found out when she tried to gobble them down against the clock.
- 20:01 24/12/2012
Showing a more exotic way to ruin your career through drugs, a policeman in central Ukraine was charged with stealing 15 kilograms of cannabis confiscated from a drug dealer.
- 13:20 24/12/2012
In a major cabinet reshuffle on Monday Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych dismissed a number of key ministers and government agency chiefs.
