Four parliamentary parties in Ukraine nominated candidates for the presidential election. Not all of these candidates are registered, but they are the most likely contenders. The Russian Federation was in a difficult situation. On the one hand, it is clear that the elections are illegitimate, on the other hand, it will be necessary to establish relationship with the new president. Recognizing the... 

The NSA’s data base contains information obtained during the surveillance of over a hundred world leaders, new leaks by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed. Der Spiegel has looked through a top secret presentation by NSA’s Center for Content Extraction, which is responsible for automated analysis of all types of text data. According to the document, the leaders of 122 states were among... 

Ukrainians must take up arms against Russians so that not even scorched earth will be left where Russia stands; an example of former Ukrainian PM Yulia Tymoshenko’s vitriol in phone call leaked online. “It’s going too far! Bugger! We must grab arms and go whack those damn katsaps [a Ukrainian word used to refer to the Russians in a negative tone] together with their leader,” Tymoshenko said. Tymoshenko... 

Combo made of file pictures shows businessman Igor Kolomoisky (left) and Serhiy Taruta, Ukrainian businessman. The self-proclaimed government in Kiev has appointed two of Ukraine’s richest men to govern large industrial regions in the defiant east. One of the reasons for the Maidan protest was the influence the rich have on politics in the country. The appointments of new governors of Donetsk and... 

On Saturday, oligarch, embezzler, murder suspect and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, released from a clinical hospital in the eastern industrial city of Kharkiv, told the Euromaidan revolutionaries in Kiev’s Independence Square to stay the course. “Do not leave Maidan as long as you have not obtained what you wanted,” she told the crowd. “Your fight for freedom will bring about democracy... 

Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko greets supporters from a car as she leaves her prison hospital in Kharkiv on February 22, 2014. Ukraine’s opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko says she is sure the country will join the European Union (EU) in the near future. Tymoshenko made the comment on Saturday minutes after she was released from the hospital where she had been held under prison guard... 

A number of anti-government protesters have seized Ukraine’s Justice Ministry, erecting barricades outside the building with rubbish containers. On Sunday, the protesters commandeered the building in the capital Kiev and appeared to encounter no resistance, AFP reported. Tensions remain high in Kiev as talks between the opposition and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych have stalled. On Sunday,... 

The former Soviet Union is suffering from Europhilia, a centuries-old disease of the intellectuals that moved to the level of the masses in the 20th century, Sergei Mikheyev, the Director of the Caspian Cooperation Institute said in a live feed of Pravda.Ru. This idea is fed by the Western propaganda machine that the weak state of Ukraine cannot resist. “Living in Europe is my dream,”... 

The US Senate has threatened to impose political sanctions on Ukraine over the jailing of former Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, urging Kiev to immediately release the opposition leader. The Senate adopted a resolution on Saturday that stressed that the Tymoshenko trial was “politically motivated” and urged her immediate release citing her poor health condition. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry... 

The logo of Euro 2012 football championships co-hosted by Ukraine and Poland Hundreds of people have taken to the streets in western Poland to protest against the Euro 2012 football championships underway in the country, chanting “bread not games.” Nearly 500 protesters rallied in Poznan on Sunday against the Euro 2012 games arguing that too much money was spent organizing the games. “We’re... 

Former Ukraine Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko Jailed Ukrainian former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has gone on a hunger strike, protesting her treatment in prison and demanding an end to political repression. Ukraine’s jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been on a hunger strike for the past five days, protesting her treatment by prison guards and doctors, as well as calling... 

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... 

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...