- 17:28 30/10/2008
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko would not even make the runoff if Ukraine held a presidential election at the moment, the National Institute for Strategic Studies said on Thursday. 
- 11:46 28/10/2008
Ukraine's Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc has withdrawn its lawsuit against a presidential decree dissolving parliament and calling early parliamentary elections, a spokesman for the bloc said on Tuesday.
- 22:00 27/10/2008
Ukraine will receive over $20 billion in foreign loans by the end of 2008 to stabilize its economy amid the global financial crisis, the country's National Bank said Monday.
- 20:06 27/10/2008
Ukrainians are rapidly losing trust in their president, Viktor Yushchenko, according to an opinion poll carried out by the Public Opinion-Ukraine foundation and published on Monday.
- 18:53 25/10/2008
- 13:35 23/10/2008
A recent poll said that less than 10% of Ukrainians believe early elections will help Ukraine overcome its current political crisis, the UNIAN news agency said on Thursday.
- 12:59 21/10/2008
The Ukrainian president's decision to suspend the dissolution of parliament so lawmakers can amend the 2008 and 2009 budgets to respond to the country's financial crisis came into force on Tuesday.
- 21:48 20/10/2008
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said on Monday he had postponed early parliamentary elections from December 7 to December 14.
- 16:36 20/10/2008
Ukraine's prime minister said on Monday she was ready to step down if it will help the country overcome its mounting financial headaches.
- 17:44 16/10/2008
In a major turnaround, Ukraine's prime minister said on Thursday she was ready to accept any conditions set by the president and his team to salvage the ruling coalition and avoid early parliamentary elections.
- 15:45 16/10/2008
Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has approved state budget amendments to disburse funding for early parliamentary elections, the country's defense minister said Thursday.
- 16:26 15/10/2008
A criminal case has been opened against members of the Ukrainian prime minister's bloc over allegations they put pressure on a Kiev court, considering a presidential appeal, to block early elections.
- 17:02 14/10/2008
Ukraine's government again refused on Tuesday to allocate election campaign funds and urged President Viktor Yushchenko to reverse a decision calling for early parliamentary polls, the UNIAN agency said.
- 09:18 14/10/2008
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has abolished a Kiev court that had earlier suspended his decree to dissolve parliament and call early parliamentary elections, his press service said.
- 16:38 09/10/2008
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said on Thursday he could lead an electoral coalition at snap parliamentary polls fixed for December 7, the UNIAN news agency said.
- 10:22 09/10/2008
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko signed a decree on Thursday to officially dissolve the Supreme Rada and set December 7 as the date for snap parliamentary polls.
- 00:10 09/10/2008
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dissolved parliament on Wednesday evening and announced snap elections in the country.
- 14:31 07/10/2008
Ukraine's pro-presidential party will hold a meeting late on Tuesday to decide whether to form a new ruling coalition with Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's bloc, a faction member said.
- 18:26 02/10/2008
Ukraine's parliament voted on Thursday to revoke controversial laws backed by the premier reducing the president's powers, in a move to revive the country's pro-Western coalition amid the ongoing parliamentary crisis.
- 19:42 01/10/2008
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Wednesday her party would accept every condition of its partners to form a new coalition amid growing fears over the dissolution of Ukraine's parliament.
- 15:21 30/09/2008
The dissolution of Ukraine's parliament and early elections are highly likely as pro-Western political forces have still failed to form a new coalition, the leader of the prime minister's bloc said Tuesday.
- 21:44 25/09/2008
The Ukrainian prime minister's bloc hopes for a deal with pro-presidential political forces on a new "orange" coalition to prevent early parliamentary elections, a senior bloc member said on Thursday.
- 21:27 17/09/2008
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko sharply criticized the pro-Western president on Wednesday for damaging the country's relations with Russia.
- 13:52 17/09/2008
Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the speaker of Ukraine's Supreme Rada, announced his resignation Wednesday after the collapse of the country's ruling pro-Western coalition.
- 18:14 16/09/2008
Ukraine's parliamentary speaker announced on Tuesday the collapse of the country's ruling pro-Western coalition, paving the way for possible early parliamentary elections.
- 13:29 16/09/2008
Ukraine's parliamentary speaker announced on Tuesday the collapse of the country's ruling pro-Western coalition, paving the way for possible early parliamentary elections.
- 20:27 08/09/2008
The Our Ukraine party, headed by the country's president, is urging democratic factions to defend the country's interests against "Moscow's plotting," the UNIAN agency said on Monday.
- 19:07 08/09/2008
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko categorically denied all allegations of treason and corruption on Monday made against her by the country's president.
- 15:24 08/09/2008
Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko pledged on Monday to prevent any conflict over Russia's Black Sea Fleet base in Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula, despite pressure from the country's president.
- 16:54 05/09/2008
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko told U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday that he greatly values the strategic bilateral relationship between Kiev and Washington.
- 15:16 04/09/2008
The Ukrainian parliamentary speaker said on Thursday the Our Ukraine party, headed by the country's president was pulling out of the pro-western ruling coalition after just nine months in power.
- 21:52 03/09/2008
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said in a televised address to the nation on Wednesday that she is ready to back out of running in the presidential elections.
- 17:47 03/09/2008
The Ukrainian president accused on Wednesday the country's prime minister and opposition parties of attempting a constitutional coup and threatened to dissolve parliament if a new coalition was not formed.
- 12:21 03/09/2008
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko's party officially pulled out of the ruling pro-Western coalition on Wednesday amid a government dispute over presidential powers and the Georgia-Russia conflict.
- 14:55 14/06/2007
Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko resigned Thursday as a member of her eponymous bloc in parliament.
- 18:52 05/06/2007
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko signed a decree Tuesday formalizing his earlier deal with the prime minister to hold early parliamentary elections September 30.
- 17:21 02/06/2007
Ukraine's presidential representative in the Constitutional Court has been elected chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC), the body's press service head said Saturday.
- 20:35 01/06/2007
Ukraine's parliament amended legislative election regulations Friday, setting a 50% minimum voter turnout requirement for by-elections and banning the use of absentee ballots.
- 13:16 01/06/2007
Ukraine's president suspended for a fourth day his decree to dissolve parliament, after lawmakers failed to vote in a set of laws needed to hold snap elections, the presidential press service said.
- 22:23 31/05/2007
Ukraine's parliament has failed to meet the presidential deadline for adopting laws needed to hold early parliamentary elections, and to end an ongoing political crisis.
- 17:09 31/05/2007
- 20:59 30/05/2007
The Ukrainian parliament Wednesday voted against the president's order to dismiss Svyatoslav Piskun as the country's top prosecutor and moved to block Piskun's former deputy and successor from entering Piskun's office.
- 19:27 30/05/2007
The Ukrainian president said Wednesday that the interior minister must be called to account for last week's chaos at the prosecutor's building.
- 14:45 27/05/2007
Moscow hopes that the agreement between the Ukrainian political leaders on holding early parliamentary elections will help ease tension in the country, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said Sunday.
- 13:22 27/05/2007
Ukraine will hold early parliamentary elections on September 30, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said Sunday.
- 15:26 26/05/2007
The Ukrainian interior minister said Saturday a detachment of interior troops is moving toward Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, ignoring his order to stay put.
- 19:59 25/05/2007
Ukraine's president signed Friday a decree to make the country's Interior Ministry troops directly subordinate to him, removing them from the ministry's jurisdiction.
- 22:16 24/05/2007
Ukraine's president ruled out the use of force to resolve a political crisis in the country that has heated up since his dismissal of the prosecutor general earlier Thursday.
- 16:10 24/05/2007
A group of unidentified armed individuals is attempting to seize a building hosting general prosecutor's offices in the capital of Ukraine, the Party of Regions said.
- 11:25 24/05/2007
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko accused the Constitutional Court late Wednesday of losing its legitimacy and ordered the prosecutor general's office to launch an investigation into the court's actions.
- 21:17 21/05/2007
Ukraine's Constitutional Court stopped Monday proceedings on the constitutionality of President Viktor Yushchenko's April 2 decree on dissolving parliament, the court said.
- 17:16 21/05/2007
Ukraine's president said Monday the ex-Soviet nation would resolve the protracted political crisis without assistance from Europe, a presidential spokesman said.
- 15:48 18/05/2007
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said Friday that early parliamentary elections would certainly take place in the country, but not later than September.
- 22:13 17/05/2007
Ukraine's presidential secretariat said the Constitutional Court, which honored a resignation plea from its chairman amid an ongoing feud between the president and prime minister earlier Thursday, is legally nonexistent.
- 20:19 17/05/2007
Ukraine's Constitutional Court honored a resignation plea from its chairman, Ivan Dombrovskiy, amid an ongoing feud between the president and prime minister, the court's press spokesman said Thursday.
- 17:10 14/05/2007
Ukraine's Constitutional Court said it would consider the legality of the president's second decree to dissolve parliament and call early elections, a document appealed by the ruling coalition backed by the premier.
- 18:57 12/05/2007
A working group set up to resolve a political standoff in Ukraine has agreed on a preliminary package of amendments required to hold early parliamentary elections, a senior government official said.
- 18:23 11/05/2007
An official in Ukraine's presidential administration said Friday an assassination plot had been planned against opposition leaders.
- 14:45 11/05/2007
Ukraine's parliament speaker has called on the pro-government coalition to put on hold negotiations with President Yushchenko until he ends pressure on Constitutional Court judges, the parliament press service said Friday.
- 21:06 10/05/2007
Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych has asked the EU and Russia to act as international mediators in talks to settle an ongoing political crisis in Ukraine.
- 19:30 08/05/2007
Ukraine's political crisis acquired a new twist Tuesday as the president, premier and opposition failed to attend a scheduled parliamentary session convened to discuss legal arrangements for snap elections.
- 16:03 07/05/2007
Ukraine's ruling coalition in parliament and the pro-presidential opposition party are debating a date for early elections, which the president and the premier agreed upon last week.
- 15:45 05/05/2007
The leader of a major "orange" revolution party in Ukraine said Saturday its MPs are willing to return to the legislature to help resolve the country's political crisis.
- 14:18 05/05/2007
Thousands of activists who have been rallying in Ukraine since a major crisis hit the country's coalition government about a month ago are ending their protests following a compromise deal between the leaders of the two rival camps.
- 22:44 04/05/2007
- 20:29 04/05/2007
Ukraine's president said Friday he and the prime minister had agreed to hold early parliamentary elections, raising hopes for an end to a protracted political crisis gripping the ex-Soviet nation.
- 18:14 04/05/2007
Ukraine's president said Friday he and the prime minister had agreed to hold early parliamentary elections, raising hopes for an end to a protracted political crisis gripping the ex-Soviet nation.
- 16:17 04/05/2007
A political crisis continues to grip Ukraine since the president disbanded parliament in early April and called snap elections, with Viktor Yushchenko and the defiant legislature issuing fresh conflicting orders.
- 17:50 03/05/2007
The political crisis gripping Ukraine can still be resolved through talks, the prime minister said Thursday.
- 17:33 30/04/2007
Ukraine's parliament adopted a resolution Monday on simultaneous parliamentary and presidential elections.
- 21:55 28/04/2007
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko told a united opposition rally Saturday he has a solution to guarantee "a free and proper vote" in the early parliamentary elections he has been pushing for since April 2.
- 17:38 28/04/2007
Ukraine's prime minister signaled Saturday he might agree to early elections after a fresh presidential order to disband parliament and call early elections for June 24 threatened to prolong the political crisis in the country.
- 15:23 28/04/2007
Ukraine's prime minister signaled Saturday he might agree to early elections after a fresh presidential order to disband parliament and call polls for June 24 threatened to prolong the political crisis in the country.
- 20:28 26/04/2007
Ukraine's Justice Ministry took the side of the ruling pro-government coalition in parliament and proposed that the president cancel his second decree, signed Thursday, to dissolve the legislature and postpone early elections.
- 15:20 26/04/2007
Ukraine's ruling majority in parliament passed a resolution Thursday outlawing a new presidential decree to dissolve the legislature and postpone early elections until June 24.
- 13:36 26/04/2007
Ukraine's prime minister called the presidential decree on disbanding the Supreme Rada and holding new parliamentary elections on June 24 unconstitutional, the head of premier's staff said Thursday.
- 09:41 26/04/2007
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko late Wednesday signed a decree postponing snap parliamentary elections until June 24.
- 18:21 25/04/2007
Ukraine's Constitutional Court is in a closed doors session on the presidential move to dissolve parliament as the country awaits a decision in the ongoing political turmoil.
- 19:56 20/04/2007
Ukraine's prime minister Friday urged political factions in the ex-Soviet state engulfed in a political crisis to settle all their differences promptly starting from next week.
- 16:53 20/04/2007
Ukrainian President said Friday he was ready to suspend his decree to dissolve parliament but indicated this would require concessions from both sides. "... I can assure you that I could agree to suspend my decree," Viktor Yushchenko told reporters.
- 11:53 20/04/2007
Ukraine's Constitutional Court has begun a fourth day of hearings on the presidential decree to dissolve parliament and call early elections amid ongoing protests near the court building.
- 22:09 19/04/2007
Over 150 members of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and Our Ukraine have offered their resignation to President Viktor Yushchenko, Tymoshenko said Thursday.
- 19:43 19/04/2007
The Ukrainian parliament will not consider the impeachment of President Viktor Yushchenko if the Constitutional Court rules his decision on parliament's dissolution illegal, the Supreme Rada speaker said Thursday.
- 17:02 19/04/2007
Several thousand protesters gathered near Ukraine's Constitutional Court Thursday on the third day of hearings into the presidential order to disband parliament and call snap elections, which triggered a fresh crisis in the country.
- 20:19 18/04/2007
Members of the opposition Yulia Tymoshenko and pro-presidential Our Ukraine factions tendered their resignations Wednesday, pushing for the dissolution of parliament amid an escalating conflict with the premier-led forces
- 17:53 18/04/2007
A nationalist party plans to conduct a march to commemorate a Ukrainian military formation that fought for Nazi Germany in the Second World War, the party said Wednesday.
- 15:24 18/04/2007
Ukraine's Constitutional Court has resumed revision of the presidential decree to dissolve parliament and call early elections, despite a blockade of the court building by opposition and ruling coalition forces.
- 20:26 17/04/2007
Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko has described a Constitutional Court session reviewing President Yushchenko's decree dissolving parliament as "a farce," and urged the president to recall the judges appointed on his quota.
- 16:44 17/04/2007
Ukraine's Constitutional Court has decided to study a presidential decree ordering the dissolution of parliament nonstop, from April 17 through 27, until a final ruling is passed, a court resolution said Tuesday.
- 15:27 17/04/2007
Ukraine's Constitutional Court has decided to study a presidential decree ordering the dissolution of parliament continuously, from April 17 through 27, until a final ruling is passed, a court resolution said Tuesday.
- 11:27 17/04/2007
Ukraine's Constitutional Court began considering the presidential decree to dissolve parliament and call early elections for May 27, which is expected to defuse the current political tensions in the country.
- 17:04 16/04/2007
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will not interfere in an ongoing political crisis in Ukraine without a formal request, the PACE president said Monday.
- 14:02 16/04/2007
A political crisis gripping Ukraine will be in the focus of a Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) session Thursday, a senior Russian lawmaker said Monday.
- 16:31 13/04/2007
Russia's energy giant Gazprom [RTS: GAZP] said in a statement Friday it is concerned over the raging political crisis in Ukraine, a gas transit country for Europe.
- 16:05 13/04/2007
Ukraine's Cabinet will refuse to obey a presidential decree overturning its earlier decision not to finance a snap general election, a member of the parliamentary majority faction said Friday.
- 18:44 12/04/2007
Ukraine's president said Thursday he was not ruling out the involvement of mediators in resolving the political crisis in the ex-Soviet nation.
- 16:50 12/04/2007
Ukraine is not planning to deploy elements of the U.S. missile defense system on its territory, the Ukrainian president said Thursday.
- 16:16 12/04/2007
Ukraine's president said Thursday he would not backtrack on his decree to disband parliament and hold early elections, which has triggered a new political crisis in the ex-Soviet state.
- 15:50 12/04/2007
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