Once again the defence minister had to make apologies to scientists and specialists working for the Ukrainian military-industrial complex. The military budget of Ukraine cannot afford to buy domestically produced weapons, says the press-service of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence....
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During the visit both sides agreed to remove intermediaries from their gas deal, which Ukraine said were responsible for the large accumulation of debt. However, Gazprom's chief said that since the agreement Ukraine's debt has "increased rather than decreased."
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The subsequent slick in the Kerch Strait, which connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, caused extensive physical damage to the sea and land, contaminated marine and coastal flora and fauna, and led to property losses and high...
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S government is dissolving an agency over- seeing preparations for Euro 2012 after European football body Uefa complained that it was inefficient. Deputy Prime Minister Ivan Vasyunyk, quoted by local news agencies after a cabinet meeting, said the agency headed...
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Parliamentary Deputy Andriy Parubiyi of the Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense bloc (OU-PSD) has proposed that the parliament cancel several of the privileges enjoyed by parliamentary deputies...On Amendments to the Law of Ukraine on the Status of the People's Deputy of Ukraine...
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Kyiv, November 18 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko at a meeting with bankers on Thursday will analyze the situation on the currency market of Ukraine, according to Presidential Secretariat First Deputy Head Oleksandr Shlapak.
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Defense Minister of Poland Bogdan Klikh noted in his turn that the defense department expects to get about 8.5 billion dollars. “You understand that this budget will not allow to pass to the professional army and to support Ukrainian defense...
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Hungarian stocks and the currency soared Wednesday after the country secured more than $25 billion in backing from global institutions led by the International Monetary Fund. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF managing director said late Tuesday in Washington that a deal to...
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M In an interview with Russia’s Interfax news agency Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet said that the possible deployment of Iskander missiles in Russia’s Kaliningrad region in response America’s deployment of missile interceptors in Poland and a radar for this...
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Kostiantyn Hryschenko, Ukrainian Ambassador to Russia Ukrainian Ambassador to Russia Kostiantyn Hryschenko, who is also the first deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, assesses the Ukrainian-Russian relations as being complicated ones.
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