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KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Tihipko says it is more important for Ukraine to raise credits at international finance institutions, namely the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB), rather than from other states, he told the press Friday. Newly-appointed Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Tihipko."I cannot exclude borrowings on a bilateral basis, be it from

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KIEV, Ukraine -- raine's former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said on Thursday she would not quit politics and would lead the opposition to the government. Ex-PM Yulia Tymoshenko"Unfortunately, there will be no time for me to take a rest," she said at a news conference.She said she would head the opposition and her eponymous Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.Earlier in the day the Ukrainian parliament

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MOSCOW, Russia -- Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko’s decision to confer the title of Hero of Ukraine on nationalist leader Stepan Bandera on Jan. 22 has unleashed a storm of outrage inside and outside Ukraine. Stepan BanderaCritics accuse Yushchenko of whitewashing a Nazi-era fascist and betraying the ideals of the Orange Revolution that brought him to power. Some hint darkly at a

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LONDON, England -- Michel Platini may be on a mission to over-complicate just about everything in European football, but on some subjects nobody can accuse him of neglecting the essentials.Take his visit to Kyiv in early July 2008. The UEFA president emerged visibly frustrated from a series of meetings to discuss the virtual absence of any progress in infrastructure development with the Euro 2012

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KIEV, Ukraine -- President Viktor Yanukovych, moving quickly to end years of political paralysis, secured a majority coalition in parliament Thursday and won its approval for a close ally to serve as prime minister. Newly appointed Prime Minister of Ukraine, Mykola Azarov, was born in Kaluga, Russia on 17 December 1947. He holds a PHD in Geological and Mineralogical Sciences. Azarov took up

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SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine -- The only school in Simferopol where all subjects are taught in Ukrainian is seeking to offer new classes to meet high demand, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. The Ukrainian-language high school in Simferopol has been overwhelmed by applicants.Crimea is a predominantly Russian-speaking part of eastern Ukraine. The Simferopol Ukrainian Gymnasium was established in the

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DONBASS, Ukraine -- Politicians and police authorities in Ukraine are investigating the airline industry after an incident on a main carrier.During the week, police were ordered to prevent a plane from taking off with a drunken crew.The pilots and cabin crew on the Ukrainian airline Donbassaero were found to be drunk at least ten times over the legal limit.The inland flight was due to carry 86

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KIEV, Ukraine -- Three factions in Ukraine's Parliament, the Regions Party, the Communist Party and the Lytvyn' s blok, decided to create a new ruling coalition along with some individual lawmakers, said a leader of the Regions Party on Wednesday. Oleksandr Lavrinovych"The Regions Party, the Communist Party and the Lytvyn's blok have made the decision to form a new ruling coalition together with

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ISTANBUL, Turkey -- An armed Turkish man who attempted to force his way into the Ukrainian Consulate General in Istanbul was shot by police and later died in hospital on Tuesday. An unidentified gunman is carried to an ambulance after he was shot and wounded in front of the Ukrainian consulate in Istanbul March 9, 2010. A security guard shot and wounded a gunman, believed to have been carrying a

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KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has offered the post of deputy prime minister in charge of economic affairs to reformist former central bank chairman Serhiy Tihipko, Yanukovych's office said. Serhiy Tihipko is a former central bank governor.It said in a statement that Tihipko, 50, had "agreed to work in the new government", but did not make clear whether he had accepted the

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MOSCOW, Russia -- The Soviet Union is gradually being rebuilt as Vladimir Putin eyes a return to the Kremlin. The man who declared the collapse of the Communist state to be the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century” appears determined to forge a new empire. Vladimir PutinThe latest evidence emerged in a suggestion by Igor Shuvalov, First Deputy Prime Minister in Mr Putin’s Government,

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MOSCOW, Russia -- Newly inaugurated Ukrainian President Viktor F. Yanukovych visited Moscow last Friday and promised Russian officials a “sharp turn” in bilateral relations between the two countries. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych (left) shakes hands with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on his first visit to the Kremlin on March 5.During the last five years, little has vexed the Kremlin

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KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukraine's parliament approved a constitutional amendment Tuesday to allow deputies to defect from their parties and join a new coalition forming around Kremlin-friendly President Viktor Yanukovych's party. Ukraine's parliament.The amendment will drastically ease Mr. Yanukovych's ability to consolidate power, as it allows his party to lure deputies away from the camps of his

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MOSCOW, Ukraine -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has won pledges for revitalized ties and tighter economic cooperation, including an invitation to join a Russian-led customs union, during his first official visit to Moscow. President Dmitry Medvedev and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovich walk past a guard of honor in the Kremlin March 5, 2010.But concrete deals — including on the

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MOSCOW, Russia -- Ukraine’s new president Viktor Yanukovych vowed Friday to end years of acrimony with Russia, as he paid his first visit to Moscow since taking office last week. President Medvedev and his Ukrainian counterpart Yanukovych meet with officials in the Kremlin in Moscow.“This five-year period has given us the opportunity to open a new page in our relations,” Yanukovych said,

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KIEV, Ukraine -- It’s been over two decades since the fall of communism in Russia, but statues of Lenin and other Soviet-era icons still stand across the country—enduring symbols that the break from a communist past may not be entirely a fait accompli. A monument of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin is seen under repair in St. Petersburg on March 2. An explosion was set off on April 1, 2009,

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KIEV, Ukraine -- It will be easy for Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to cancel his predecessor Viktor Yushchenko's January decree to award, amid much media hysteria, the honorary title of Hero of Ukraine to onetime Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera, a Polish analyst said Sunday. Yanukovych vows to resolve issue of Hero of Ukraine Bandera.Warsaw University's Andrzej Szeptycki said the

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MOSCOW, Russia -- Ukraine will join the Unified Economic Space of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan only on the conditions of the World Trade Organization, President Viktor Yanukovych said on Saturday."We have fallen far behind in this process [the creation of the economic space]," Yanukovych said in an interview with Russia's Vesti TV channel.In December 2009, the presidents of Russia, Belarus and

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MOSCOW, Russia -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday called for closer economic ties with Kiev while meeting with Ukraine's new President Viktor Yanukovych in Moscow. Russian PM Vladimir Putin"We know that in engineering, aviation, energy and agricultural spheres we strongly depend on each other. We have a lot to do to make up lost ground," Putin was quoted by RIA Novosti news agency

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MOSCOW, Russia -- Ukraine’s newly elected president, Viktor F. Yanukovich, arrived in Moscow on Friday promising a “sharp turn” in his country’s relations with Russia, five years after the Orange Revolution chilled ties between the two neighbors. Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich (2nd L) approaches to shake the hand of Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (R) as they meet in Moscow March 5,

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KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukraine's new President, Viktor Yanukovych, says his visit to Moscow will mark the first step in a major improvement in relations with Russia. Pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych.Mr Yanukovych has arrived in Moscow ahead of talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and PM Vladimir Putin.Mr Yanukovych defeated the pro-Western candidate, Yulia Tymoshenko, in last month's

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SAN FRANCISCO, USA -- Hoping to catch cybercrooks, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has begun embedding agents with law enforcement agencies in Estonia, Ukraine and the Netherlands.Over the past few months, the agents have begun working hand in hand with local police to help crack tough international cybercrime investigations, said Jeffrey Troy, chief of the FBI's Cyber Division, in an

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KIEV, Ukraine -- The party of President Viktor Yanukovich pushed for a change in the law on Thursday to ease the creation of a new ruling coalition, essential if Ukraine is to dig itself out of economic crisis and avoid elections. President Viktor YanukovychThe initiative was condemned as a "constitutional coup d'etat" by the bloc of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, ousted in a no confidence vote

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KIEV, Ukraine -- Yulia Tymoshenko’s defeat in Ukraine’s parliament yesterday may push President Viktor Yanukovych to team up with his other Orange Revolution rival as he relies on supporters of his deposed predecessor Viktor Yushchenko to form a majority. Viktor Yanukovych (R) and Viktor Yushchenko in file photo.Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine Party “is considering the possibility of taking part in

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