A court in Kiev has sentenced Ukraine’s ex-prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, to seven years in prison for an abuse of her office. Her supporters and opponents have taken to the streets, raising fears that violence could break out. Immediately after the verdict was pronounced, Yulia Tymoshenko condemned the decision. “I do not agree with the verdict,” said Tymoshenko. “No authoritarian... 

Police disperse supporters and opponents of Ukraine’s former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko in front of a court building during her trial in Kiev. A Ukrainian court has ordered the arrest of country’s former Prime Minister and high-profile opposition leader, Yulia Tymoshenko. ­Around 30 police officers surrounded Tymoshenko’s table and escorted the ex-PM out of the court room. After the... 

On April 26 the world remembered the Chernobyl disaster. The 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident came amid another nuclear tragedy, this time in Japan. What is the situation in Fukushima now, after over a month after the accident? Can we draw parallels with the Chernobyl disaster? Is there a future for nuclear energy after the accident? Vladimir Khrustalev, an expert on nuclear technology with... 

Chernobyl's sarcophagus. Click on the image to enlarge it. Ukraine and Russia remember the Chernobyl disaster, which took place 25 years ago. In the meantime, the question of safety of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant still remains unsolved. A sarcophagus was built on the fourth reactor of the plant after the breakdown, but the sarcophagus has been falling to pieces slowly but surely during the... 

Kremlin's human rights council, Mikhail Fedotov (photo), said the report was "propaganda material". Russia, Ukraine and Belarus are the three European countries with the worst record on human rights in 2010, the U.S. State Department said in an annual survey released Friday. The survey, “2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices,” covered 194 countries worldwide, excluding... 

The improvement in relations between Russia and Ukraine will soon result in joint military drills in a variety of formats, officials said Sunday. Relations between the two countries have improved significantly since Viktor Yanukovych was elected president last year, RIA Novosti reported. “The Russian side is prepared to hold drills with Ukraine not only at sea but also in the air and on the... 

A source from within the inner circle of the Wikileaks team has confidentially leaked to All News Web the content of a State Dept cable, concerning UFO affairs, that Wikileaks has declined to upload onto their website. The cable states: “It is critical all embassy staff understand that they are not to discuss under any circumstance concerns DOD has with UFOs entering orbit, once again the seriousness... 

According to the deputy head of presidential administration, Viktor Yanukovych, “does not choose his faith according to what it can give him later”. In days of celebrating the Jewish Hanukkah, Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych has refused to attend a synagogue religious ceremony and light the Hanukkah candles. As the deputy head of Presidential Administration of Ukraine, Anna Herman,... 

A 5-year-old Ukrainian boy was slaughtered by an alleged Muslim fanatic as he played in a sandpit with his friends, Pravda reported Tuesday. The stranger strolled up to little Viktor Shemyakin before pointing to a tree and saying: “Look, there is a bird up there.” When the youngster glanced upward the maniac plunged a knife into his throat, Pravda said. The June 18 killing has threatened to... 

Abraham Foxman, Jewish leader of ADL The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted 23 to 22 to acknowledge the mass murder of Christians, mostly ethnic Armenians, by the Turks early in the 20th century. Turkey officially denies that they committed genocide against Christians Armenians, Greeks, and others. The main group that has been lobbying congress not to recognize the killings as “genocide” is... 

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Russia’s new military doctrine does not identify NATO as its major threat but Moscow is disturbed by the alliance’s “endless enlargement”, President Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview published on Thursday. Russia has made future NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia, two former Soviet republics, a ‘red line’ in its relations... 

Supporters of the opposition leader Viktor F. Yanukovich in front of the Central Election Commission in Kiev on Monday. The opposition leader Viktor F. Yanukovich appeared on Monday to have won a narrow victory in Ukraine’s presidential election, according to nearly complete results, giving him an unlikely comeback from his humiliating defeat in the 2004 Orange Revolution, when he was shunned as... 

* NATO body, Council of Europe press Tymoshenko to concede International monitors on Monday urged Ukraine’s Yulia Tymoshenko to concede defeat to her rival Viktor Yanukovich in Sunday’s presidential run-off vote and shake hands with him for the sake of stability. The election in the ex-Soviet state gave opposition leader Yanukovich a slender win over Prime Minister Tymoshenko, but the... 

A rapprochement between Russia and Ukraine looks imminent after challengers Viktor Yanukovych and Yulia Tymoshenko swept aside Ukraine’s pro-Western president, Viktor Yushchenko, in Sunday’s presidential vote. Yanukovych, backed openly by the Kremlin when he last stood for president in 2004, and Tymoshenko, the onetime darling of the Orange Revolution, go into a runoff vote on Feb.... 

Viktor Yanukovych Opposition Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych has a more than 10% lead over his closest rival Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in Ukraine’s Sunday presidential election with 99.5% of the ballots counted. Viktor Yanukovych is a slavic patriot and pro Russia unlike Tymoshenko wich has been accused by some Ukrainian politicians to be Jewish. It is unclear if Tymoshenko is...