Ukraine News

European lawmakers issued scathing criticism of Ukraine's electoral system Thursday as they began a mission to observe a January presidential vote, saying the election will likely be marred by corruption, media bias and widespread public disappointment.

Ukrainian border guards said on Thursday that a resident of the Kharkov Region attempted to drive through the Russian-Ukrainian border in a Niva off-road vehicle. After firing a warning shot into the air, Russian border guards opened fire, killing the...

He referred to the continuing dialogue between the Ukrainian government and the IMF. In his opinion, the main obstacle to the cooperation is the law on higher social standards. As reported, the IMF approved for Ukraine in November 2008 a...

A former Montreal man, wanted by U .S. authorities on drug smuggling charges for over a year, is now in a California jail after being arrested in Ukraine. Police say Jerry Turcotte escaped from a jail in Lima last September...

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko says early elections are one option for breaking through what he sees as "stagnation" in parliament. "We have the parliament without majority and stagnation of the government in which half of the seats are empty," Yushchenko...

At the same time, he noted that unfortunately the Ukrainians often hear from the EU that integration is a matter of the future, which is a source of �serious disappointment in the Ukrainian society.� �We need the European Union to...

According to a new CNN poll, more than half of all adult Americans say that they don't want to get the H1N1 flu vaccine . It turns out that all the fatal cases of the H1N1 flu in Ukraine that...

A total of 388 people have died in Ukraine of flu and acute respiratory viral infections (ARVI) as of Monday evening, the ex-Soviet state's Health Ministry said. The ministry said eight people died over the past 24 hours. The flu...

The EU aims to give Ukraine a stern warning about financial and political reform at an upcoming summit, as the two sides head into a new, post-romantic chapter in bilateral relations. In an anecdote told by one EU official, a...