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June 2010

 * June 15, 2010 — The Ukrainian film director Yuriy Illyenko (74) has passed away in the village of Prokhorivka, Kaniv Raion in Cherkasy Oblast. The laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize his last film feature was The prayer for Hetman Mazepa (2001). He was better known for his camera work with Sergei Parajanov (Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors). Life (Ukrainian Pravda)


 * June 15, 2010 — The Pechersk District Court of Kiev city postponed the review of petition in regards to denial of Holodomor as a genocide by the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych.(Ukrainian Pravda of April 27, 2010) Such decision was accepted at the meeting on Tuesday states OBKOM referring to the Ukrainian news (Українські новини). The court granted the motion to the representative of the defendant Olena Lukash to postpone the hearing as the President administration has received the notice only on June 11. Ukrainian Pravda


 * June 15, 2010 — Mykola Azarov thinks that the situation around the Mariupol Metallurgical Plant in the name of Illich (MMK Illich) is nothing more than a typical raid. The Prime Minister of Ukraine who recently has been blamed for selling the national interests pointed to the fact that the major banks and metallurgical factories were sold to the Russian companies during the presidency of Viktor Yushchenko who led a pro-European direction. Ukrainian Pravda

May 2010

 * May 27, 2010 — Shevchenko Raion Department of Militsiya in ciy of Kiev offered the parents of the 19-year old student to take the body of their son out of the city's morgue, after celebrating his birthday. The cause of death — a head injury while being in custody. The militsiya official stated that the boy was so drunk that caused harm to himself, implying that no militsiya officials were involved in his death. Cynically enough the law enforcement officials have nerve to blame the death of the student on the youngster himself without even questioning procedural mistakes of the custody. Kyiv (Ukrainska Pravda)

March 2010

 * Mar. 18, 2010 — The vice-president of FFU Serhiy Storozhenko announced that Oleksandr Aliev will not represent Ukraine on international level if he will obtain the Russian passport as he will not be a citizen of Ukraine. He related the case to similar one with Vladimir Dišljenković who recently obtained the Ukrainian citizenship and won't represent his native country of Serbia at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Champion (Ukrainska Pravda)


 * Mar. 17 2010 — Around 5,000 demonstrators organized a political meeting by the building of Lviv's local administration. They are requesting immediate resignation of the newly appointed minister of education Dmytro Tabachnyk. The same day militsiya already has arrested people in Kyiv for similar event near the building of Ministry of Education. At the same time an Extraordinary session of Lviv regional council reviews the petition to Azarov Government with a request to fire Tabachnyk. Novynar


 * Mar. 17 2010 — In Crimea was elected a new speaker of local parliament Volodymyr Konstantinov (Party Za Yanukovych). In the list of candidates there was no other names but his. He received 86 votes of support out 93 issued bulletins. Konstantinov also recommended the presidential candidate Vasyl Djarti (Party of Regions) on the post of prime-minister. His candidacy supported 82 deputies out 89 that voted. Ukrainska Pravda


 * Mar. 17 2010 — In Crimea were elected new Republican Prosecutor, Chief of Police, and Prime-Minister. For the Medvedko's candidate Stepan Molytsky the local council voted 82 out of 90 that participated. For the head of Ministry of Internal Affairs candidate Oleksandr Prosolov voted 70 out 89. The newly elected prime-minister Vasyl Djarti promised to form the new republican government by this Friday. Ukrainska Pravda


 * Mar. 16 2010 — Leader of Crimean Mejlis Mustafa Djemilev has intentions to turn the European attention to the appointment of Annatoliy Mohyliov as the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ukraine). Djemilev commented that when Mohyliov was heading the Crimean Militsiya a military operation took place in 2007 on plateau Ai-Petri during which several Crimean-Tatar businessmen had suffered. Djemilev also remind of Mohyliov's official xenophobic statements in local press against the Crimean Tatar population for which Mejlis has already prepared a petition to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. Ukrainska Pravda


 * Mar. 16 2010 — The famous Russian coach and former manager of the Russian national football team Yuri Syomin has intentions to amend the Constitution of Ukraine and particularly the Article 4 concerning the state citizenship. According to euro2012.ukrinform.ua the Ukrainian international Oleksandr Aliyev filed an application to obtain the Russian citizenship. Syomin commented that the process is practically finalized and there is nothing to worry as it will not be a problem for Aliyev to play for Ukraine. Champion (Ukrainska Pravda)


 * Mar. 16 2010 — In Lviv the youth has collected all books of histories of USSR and CPSU as well as other Soviet literature and turned them into recycling, reports TCH.ua. The action became a sort of answer to another action that took place in Simferopol where representatives of organization Proryv and the Natalia Vitrenko Bloc burned books of the modern history of Ukraine (photos) . During the Lviv's action the local youth also was gathering signatures for the dismissal of the newly elected minister of education Dmytro Tabachnyk. In their first hour they collected over 100 signatures. The Simferopol's books vandalism took place on March 14 and later was condemned by the deputy head of president's administration Hanna Herman. Novynar


 * Mar. 15 2010 — Speaker of Crimean parliament Anatoliy Hrytsenko and prime-minister of Crimea Viktor Plakida filed a statement of resignation. It was announced by the head of the Standing Committee of Parliament on legal issues, law enforcement and emergency Liudmyla Lubina, says Ukrainska Pravda referring to the announcement at E-Crimea. According to her, the resignation also signed the first deputy speaker of the parliament Hryhoriy Ioffe. Ukrainska Pravda


 * Mar. 15 2010 — Anti-Tobacco Campaign in Ukraine. No that campaign has nothing to do with cigarettes or tobacco products. That campaign is directed against the newly appointed Minister of Education and Science Dmytro Tabachnyk whose name sounds approximately the same. He is known for his scandalous reputation not only amongst his opponents, but also amongst his allies from the Party of Regions, says Ukrainska Pravda referencing to the announcement of the political party leader For Ukraine Vyacheslav Kyrylenko. Few regional councils has already or have intention to send the official letter to the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, the speaker of Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Lytvyn, and premier minister Mykola Azarov with a request to free the current minister of education of his duties. Ukrainska Pravda

January 2010

 * Jan. 7 2010 — Ukraine is holding a run-off vote in the country's first presidential election since the 2004 Orange Revolution, which brought pro-Western reformer Viktor Yushchenko to power. Opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych faces Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in the vote after neither candidate won more than 50% in January's first round. They won 35% and 25% of votes respectively. President Yushchenko, the one-time hero of the Orange Revolution, came fifth out of a field of 18 candidates, winning just 5.5% of votes. BBC

December 2009

 * Dec. 2 2009 — The citizen of Ukraine was shot dead recently on the eastern border of Ukraine with the Russian Federation while trying to cross a non legally existing border as no border agreement between the two countries was ever signed. Why is that? GLAVRED

November 2009

 * Nov. 26 2009 — The border officials of the Border Patrol of Russian Federation killed the citizen of Ukraine. The incident took place around 00:30 on November 26 near the settlement of Volchansky Khutors, Kharkiv Oblast. The Russians claim that the resident of Ukraine in his automobile Niva with a trailer driving from Russia back to his home land wanted illegally cross the border between Russia and Ukraine. When he was spotted by the patrol he was requested to stop. However, the trespasser tried to evade and even over run one of the officials. After warning shots the officials opened fire upon the vehicle, but shot the driver as well. One of the rounds got in the driver's neck and the Ukrainian died instantly. Currently the incident is being investigated by the Russian Prosecutor's Office. The Ukrainian border officials already were met with their Russian colleagues. Both the head of the FSB Border Patrol press service Oksana Golova and the commander of the Kharkiv Border Patrol unit Oleksandr Zadorozhny agreed that the authorities were following the letter of law. Podrobnosti.ua (video-footage)

October 2009

 * Oct. 6 2009 — The status of religious freedom in Ukraine is still on the highest level although in the community is observed progressive decreasing of a general tolerating level in comparison to the previous years. As was informed by the Institute of the Religious Freedom such conclusions were made by the participants of the Congress of the Board of Directors of the Ukrainian Association of the Religious Freedom (UARS).Novynar


 * Oct. 6 2009 — The People's Deputy, Vasyl Kiselev, (block of Party of Regions) calls on Viktor Yanukovych to leave his post of the party's leader. He stated that on the press-conference according to the UNIAN. Kiselev remarked that he is not against him to run for the post of the President of Ukraine, but at the party's congress he called upon the change of the party's leader. He explained his position by the fact that Yanukovych deviated away from the party's program principles and he knows of better replacement currently in the party ranks. Kiselev also accused Yanukovych of playing games with Yuschenko which might sabotage the upcoming election for presidency.Glavred

September 2009

 * Sep. 13 2009 — The local administration has intentions to sell the house where General Oleksiy Pukach was hiding from the authorities told journalists the leader of the Zhytomyr Oblast regional department of AO Svoboda. The property is located in the village of Molochky, Chudniv Raion. As a reminder the general is charged in relation to the all-nationally famous Gongadze murder Affair and was wanted since 2005, but arrested only on July 21, 2009.UNIAN
 * Sep. 7 2009 — A Holocaust Memorial was opened in Uzhhorod. The memorial was established with a help of goodwill funds and with the intention to immortalize the 17,000 ghetto inhibitants. The event opened the head rabbi of Uzhhorod and Zakarpattia, Menakhem Mendel. UNIAN
 * Sep. 6 2009 — The winner of Miss Ukraine 2009 became the 20-year old resident of Dnipropetrovsk, Yevhenia Tulchevska. The runner-up of the competition was Anastasia Senina (Kharkiv) and Miss of spectators' sympathies title was awarded to Hanna Poslavska (Odessa). UNIAN (photos)

August 2009

 * Aug. 29 2009 — Former European Footballer of the Year Andriy Shevchenko has agreed to rejoin Dynamo Kiev from Chelsea.(Reuters)
 * Aug. 19 2009 — The establishment of the Mazepa monument seems to get postponed now until sometime in September. Viktor Yuschenko thinks that it happened due to passive activity from the mayor of Poltava. The last one speculated of conflict with Russian Federation if the monument was to be erected on the day of the Battle of Poltava. The construction was postponed until the Independence Day and was ratified by the city council August 22, 2008. UNIAN


 * Aug. 16 2009 — Ukrainian tennis player Illia Marchenko won his first in his career tournament series Challenger Tour in Istanbul. On August 10, the 202nd racket in the world in two sets beat his German opponent Florian Mayer. Last month Illia lost another tournament in Penza where in final he lost to Kazakhstani Mikhail Kukushkin, the quarterfinalist of the current tournament. UNIAN


 * Aug. 16 2009 — Crimean Mejlis is preparing picketing on the central square in the capital of the autonomous republic, Simferopol. The informational picketing will be commemorated to the all-European Day of victims of Stalinism and Nazism on August 23, 2009. Crimean Mejlis is the nationally-democratic political citizen organization in Ukraine that primarily fights for the rights of the Crimean Tatars. UNIAN


 * Aug. 11 2009 — Dmitri Medvedev, the president of the Russian Federation, sent a diplomatic ultimatum to his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yuschenko. In his statement he accused Ukrainian government in unfriendly politics against his country such as the ideological position of Ukraine in regards to the military conflict between Russia and Georgia in the summer of 2008 accenting upon the fact that it was the Ukrainian weapons that were killing the innocent civilians and the Russian peacekeepers in the region. One of his other accusations were in the regards to the fact that Ukraine also failed to follow the letter of the Russian-Ukrainian agreements in reference to the Black Sea Fleet. And then he accuses Ukrainian government in the discrimination of the Russian language in the Ukrainian press-media, education, science, and culture. He also mentioned what is believed to be a skewed interpretation of the Soviet complex history by the Ukrainian government such as Holodomor and WWII. Then he mentioned some of the Ukrainian economic sins. He also stated that the Russian government has its intentions to open several centers of his own culture and science in Ukraine to warm the cooled brother-like ties with its neighbor. He promised all kinds of support to the Ukrainians in Russia. Ukrainska Pravda

June 2009

 * Jun. 21 2009 — Ukrsocbank and Universal Bank united their ATM networks. As the press services of Ukrsocbank state on its official web-site the united network of ATM of these bank consists of 8.7 thousands units from which 194 ATM belong to Universal Bank. The bank-partners of Ukrsocbank are also PUMB, Praveks-bank, Ukrhazbank, Ukrsibbank, Oschadbank, Bank Finansy i Kredyt, Khreschatyk, Rodovid bank, UniCredit Bank Ukraina, Universal Bank, and others. UNIAN


 * Jun. 20 2009 — In Sevastopol again took place an incident involving the Black Sea fleet of Russian Federation. Couple of years ago in 2007 the administration of this organization was contracted by some 200 citizens of Sevastopol to build four several stories residential buildings. The job was never finished although the financial aspect of the contract was fulfilled as it was a prepaid venture. At this time there are only two buildings that are only finished at 95% states the local newspaper Novyi Sevastopol. The protesters are being simply kicked out by force without any intention to regulate the conflict. The protesters also sent a letters to the President and the Prime-Minister of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin, and also to the Minister of Defense of RF, Anatoliy Serdyukov. Those attempts brought no results. UNIAN
 * Jun. 20 2009 — In Vinnytsia started the festival of Cossack's Zvychayeva Culture. The event is taking place on the Kempa Island (Festival Island) with participation of over 300 Cossacks and around 2,000 spectators. The festival is organized for the upcoming Ivana Kupala festivities for which were invited guests not only from almost all of the oblasts nationwide, but also Belarus and Poland. The event is planned to consist of the national martial arts, the strength competition featuring David Klionov (Kharkiv) and the group Kozatski vitivky. The sport part of the event will follow by the festival of kobzar song. This program will feature a wide variety of kobsars of the country such as the Honored Artist of Ukraine Vasyl Lytvyn, kobsars Taras Sylenko, Maksym Slipak, Oleksa Mykolaychuk and others. The next day of the event will feature live participation and familirization with the national folklore of Ukraine. Participation is free, but participants are required to wear a traditional national costumes. UNIAN

April 2009

 * Apr. 20 2009 — Valeriy Saratov, speaker of the Sevastopol municipality council, says the upcoming International festival Grand Russian Word (June 2009) has to become the All-Ukrainian as it carries a serious cultural essence. He believes that this event will boost the programs directed at the development of the Russian language in the region. 1+1 reminds that a similar activity has taken place on June 10, 2007 in Simferopol and developed into the pro-Russian protests. 1+1
 * Apr. 17 2009 — In Odessa, Maksym Chaika, a 20-year old student of the Odessa National University, died due to multiple stabbing wounds. A public affairs representative of the city police authority in Odessa clarifies that the investigation has been started and militsiya is in a search for one of the suspected offenders. Some observers say that Chaika has openly criticized the destructive pro-Russian activities of local politician Igor Markov, his party Rodina, and the TV channel ATB that sympathizes them; demanding from the authorities and SBU to bring them to justice. Ukrinform
 * Apr. 15 2009 — Ukraine will transfer the Moldovan citizens, Gabriel Stati and Aurel Marinescu, that were detained last week in the Odessa airport wanted under suspicion of organizing public disorders in neighboring Moldova. (UNIAN)
 * Apr. 15 2009 — The installation of a Mazepa monument scheduled to the 300 year anniversary of the Battle of Poltava was canceled, but later postponed. (UNIAN)
 * Apr. 15 2009 — Two officers of the Russian militsiya from Rostov Oblast crossed into Ukraine and, exercising extraterritorial jurisdiction, arrested a 17-year-old Ukrainian citizen in Milove, Luhansk Oblast, claiming that he escaped from their custody to avoid criminal charges against him. The local militsiya and border patrol were not able to respond on time, although there are some witnesses claiming to see a border guard following the group. The agency denies the accusations. Podrobytsi

March 2009

 * Mar. 10 2009 — Eurovision vote-rigging row as Ukrainian wins contest to represent Russia.(The Times)
 * Mar. 4 2009 — SBU has infiltrated Naftohaz of Ukraine in a bandit-manner. Its masked personnel of Alfa unit blocked the office of the head accountant. SBU opened a criminal case against a group of individuals from Naftohaz of Ukraine who tried illegally to tax the transit gas at Russia-Ukraine customs. (Економічна Правда)

February 2009

 * Feb. 13 2009 — Hijacked ship crew welcomed home in Ukraine.(AP)
 * Feb. 12 2009 — Ukraine finance minister quits after row with Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.(Reuters)
 * Feb. 11 2009 — President Yushchenko's economic office has said Ukraine could miss out on the second part of an International Monetary Fund loan.(BBC)
 * Feb. 8 2009 — Economic battering raises fears that Ukraine may default on foreign debt.(Kansas City Star)
 * Feb. 6 2009 — European soccer authorities are pleased with Ukraine's progress in preparing for the Euro 2012 championship, to be co-hosted with neighboring Poland.(Reuters)
 * Feb. 13 2009 — Hijacked ship crew welcomed home in Ukraine.(AP)
 * Feb. 12 2009 — Ukraine finance minister quits after row with Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.(Reuters)
 * Feb. 11 2009 — President Yushchenko's economic office has said Ukraine could miss out on the second part of an International Monetary Fund loan.(BBC)
 * Feb. 8 2009 — Economic battering raises fears that Ukraine may default on foreign debt.(Kansas City Star)
 * Feb. 6 2009 — European soccer authorities are pleased with Ukraine's progress in preparing for the Euro 2012 championship, to be co-hosted with neighboring Poland.(Reuters)
 * Feb. 5 2009 — Alcohol abuse a leading cause of death for Ukrainian men.(Radio Free Europe)
 * Feb. 3 2009 — Russian Orthodox Church's local council approves broad autonomy for Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).(Kyiv Post)

November 2008
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 * November 28, 2008 — Ukraine to remove 10 Soviet-era monuments. Authorities in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv have decided to take down ten Soviet-era monuments, including eight statues of Vladimir Lenin, a municipal official said on Thursday, according to RIA Novosti.(UNIAN)
 * November 27, 2008 — The prohibition of smoking in schools and clinics was accepted by the executive committee of the municipal council of Kharkiv. Current mayor of Kharkiv, Mykhailo Dobkin, asked the committee to prepare a proposition to the managers of companies of other forms of ownership.(1+1)
 * November 27, 2008 — Fitch downgrades Ukraine's IUD To B. Fitch Ratings has today downgraded Ukrainian-based metal producer Corporation Industrial Union of Donbass`s (IUD) Long-term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to B from B+ while maintaining a Negative Outlook. At the same time, Fitch has affirmed the company's Short-term IDR at B, EasyBourse reported.(UNIAN)
 * November 27, 2008 — Moscow club shows Ukrainian coach the red card. No sooner had the Russian football season ended than the reshuffles began. FC Moscow coach Oleh Blokhin has left the club by mutual consent after just one season in charge.(UNIAN)
 * November 27, 2008 — Ukraine denies military build up on Russian border. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry said on Thursday it would strengthen its troop numbers along its borders with all foreign states, rather than with Russia alone, according to RIA Novosti.(UNIAN)
 * November 26, 2008 — A Kharkivian arrived to the bank in his BRDM. A candidate to the mayor of the city of Kharkiv, Petro Kostenko, arrived to the bank to pay his dues on his car loan.(24.ua)
 * November 26, 2008 — In Crimea was killed a parliamentary deputy. The member of the political party Soyuz(Union), Oleh Pecherytsia, was killed at night on November 12 near his house.(24.ua)
 * November 26, 2008 — The Cabmin of Ukraine did not accept the changes to the budget for the next year. The Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko has informed.(Utro.ua)
 * November 26, 2008 — Poll: Blok Yuschenko would miss the parliamentary quote in case of elections. The Fond of civil thought — Ukraine took opinion of 2000 people between November 12-24.(1+1)
 * November 26, 2008 — The population of Ukraine continues to decline. In the last year it shortned by a quarter of million and amounts to 46.2 million on the October 1, 2008.(1+1)
 * November 26, 2008 — US cools on NATO path for Georgia, Ukraine. The United States on Tuesday cooled its support for a formal path to help Georgia and Ukraine join NATO, amid opposition not just from Russia but also from Germany and France, according to AFP.(UNIAN)
 * November 25, 2008 — Sofia Rotaru is on the borderline to the bankruptcy. The famous Ukrainian singer was forced to fire her director Olha Koniakhina due to the financial indecency when she found that the last was involved in the financial affairs outside of her obigations. Now the singer is in debt that is estimated in the millions of dollars.(Utro.ua)
 * November 25, 2008 — The Ministry of the Foreign Affairs of Ukraine asks Yanukovych to choose his wordings wisely while representing Ukraine officially. They remind him that defining of the country foreign policies is the duty and obligation of the President of Ukraine exclusively. The Foreign Affairs Ministry saw Yanukovych to misinterpret the policies on the convention of the Russian political party United Russia in Moscow.(1+1)
 * November 25, 2008 — Tymoshenko bids to resume privatization. Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko believes that if the privatization is resumed, it will reduce the negative influence of the world financial crisis upon the Ukrainian economics.(UIAN)
 * November 25, 2008 — Moscow police beats Tymoshchuk. He was suddenly attacked by OMON, [special police subdivision], employees who pulled the Ukrainian off the tribunes and tried to twist his arms.(UNIAN)
 * November 25, 2008 — Pirates lower ransom for arms-laden Ukrainian ship. Somali pirates that hold MV Faina seized it exactly two months ago with a cargo of combat tanks and other weaponry said on Tuesday they had lowered their ransom demand to US$3 million (HK$23.4 million).(UNIAN)
 * November 24, 2008 — Ukrainians honor for Welsh reporter.(UNIAN)
 * November 24, 2008 — Russia's Gazprom could sue Ukraine over its gas debt.(UNIAN)
 * November 24, 2008 — The Crimean parliament seeks answers about the situation regarding the Russian television programing. The Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea asked the Constitutional Court of Ukraine to clarify the situation regarding the presentation of the foreign TV-media.(UNIAN)
 * November 23, 2008 — In the Netherlands a liturgy was commemorated to the victims of the Holodomor.(UNIAN)
 * November 16, 2008 — Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church headed by the Metropolitan Kyivan and all-Ukraine His Holiness Volodymyr fired the Yepiskop of Sumy and Okhtyrka Illariy (Shyshkovskyi).(UNIAN)
 * November 16, 2008 — Ukrainian Trade Union Federation (UTUF) informs that in most of the regions of Ukraine there were a series of attempts to overtake the buildings of the regional trade unions.(UNIAN)

October 2008

 * October 13, 2008 — Relatives of crew members on a hijacked Ukrainian arms ship demanded that the Ukrainian government stop delaying and just pay a multimillion-dollar ransom to the Somali pirates holding the ship.(IHT)
 * October 13, 2008 — Ukraine's central bank on Monday limited bank lending and restricted withdrawals from some kinds of retail accounts as the government tried to stem growing doubts about the country's troubled banking sector.(Forbes)
 * October 13, 2008 — Ukrainian boxer Vitaliy Klychko reclaims WBC world champion title.(NRCU)
 * October 11, 2008 — Ukraine's feuding leaders intensified their power struggle, with Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko seeking to undo President Viktor Yushchenko's decision on holding early parliamentary elections.(WSJ)

August 2008

 * August 8, 2008 — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has expressed a deep concern about the situation in the South Ossetia region of Georgia.(UNIAN)

July 2008

 * July 31, 2008 — The Ukrainian parliament devotes $1.2 billion in aid to help the flood affected regions.(Reuters)
 * July 27, 2008 — A flood in Western Ukraine kills 22 people, including six children, while flooding some 40,000 homes.(Reuters)
 * July 25, 2008 — Patriarch Bartholomew I arrives in Kiev to celebrate the 1020th anniversary of the Christianization of Kievan Rus'.(NRCU)
 * July 13, 2008 — Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko defeats Tony Thompson, thereby remaining the IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight champion of the world.

June 2008

 * June 19, 2008 — Ukrainian automaker Bogdan opens a new plant in Cherkassy capable of producing over 120,000 vehicles annually.(Reuters)
 * June 8, 2008 — Rescue teams in eastern Ukraine are battling to save 37 miners believed to be trapped underground in Yenakiyevo after a gas explosion.(BBC)
 * June 6, 2008 — Ukraine's governing pro-Western coalition has lost its parliamentary majority after two members quit.(BBC)
 * June 6, 2008 — Russia will almost double the price it charges neighbouring Ukraine for gas from January 1, 2009.(Turkish Press)
 * June 6, 2008 — Inflation in Ukraine slowed to 1.3 percent in May compared to 3.1 percent in April, the state statistic agency said on Friday.(The Guardian)

May 2008

 * May 23, 2008 — Opened 46th station of Kiev Metro Chervony Khutir.(KMV)
 * May 12, 2008 — Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov was declared a Persona non grata, after he claimed that the city of Sevastopol did not belong to Ukraine. (BBC)
 * May 10, 2008 — 2 dead, 8 injured in an amusement park accident in Luhansk, Ukraine.(IHT)
 * May 7, 2008 — FC Shakhtar Donetsk (pictured) defeats FC Dynamo Kyiv 2-0 to secure its sixth Ukrainian Cup.(UEFA)
 * May 5, 2008 — Drunk driver kills 6 people at tram stop in Kharkiv, Ukraine.(UNIAN)

April 2008

 * April 21, 2008 — Ukraine and Poland sign declaration on building a eurotrack to Lviv. The line will become part of the Pan-European transport corridor III Dresden-Wrocław-Kraków-Lviv.(ZIK)
 * April 10, 2008 — Ukraine's parliament has signed off on this ex-Soviet republic's membership in the World Trade Organization.(Kyiv Post)
 * April 7, 2008 — Russia threatens Ukraine's sovereignty, promising an existential crisis in the country if further action taken towards NATO.(UNIAN)
 * April 1, 2008 — The United States has signed an agreement to boost trade and investment ties with Ukraine(The Guardian)

March 2008

 * March 27, 2008 — 12 killed in Black Sea crash of Ukraine MI-8 border guard helicopter. Poor maintenance and excessive age are to blame.(Canadian Press)
 * March 24, 2008 — Eighteen Ukrainian seamen were still missing more than 40 hours after their ship collided with a Chinese boat and sank in the waters near Lantau Island in Hong Kong.(Xinhua)
 * March 18, 2008 — The Ukrainian parliament voted to call early elections for Kiev mayor, after the incumbent came under harsh criticism for alleged corruption.(iht)
 * March 18, 2008 — A Ukrainian police officer serving with the United Nations in Kosovo died of injuries sustained in violent clashes with Serbs.(Reuters)
 * March 16, 2008 — Ukraine's court gives jail sentences for Gongadze's 2000 murder.(AFP)
 * March 11, 2008 — Protesters burn an Albanian flag in front of Ukraine’s ministry of foreign affairs demanding that Kiev not recognise Kosovo’s declaration of independence.(BDA)
 * March 6, 2008 — Russia halves Ukraine's natural gas in a continuation of the Russia-Ukraine gas dispute.(AP)

February 2008

 * February 27, 2008 — Mass resignation of members of President's political party Our Ukraine from Ukraine's newly elected parliament (ForUm)
 * February 25, 2008 — Ukraine's Wladimir Klitschko unifies IBF, WBO titles in a fight against Sultan Ibragimov. Klitschko is the first unified heavyweight champion since Lennox Lewis.(National Post)
 * February 18, 2008 — The European Union's top trade official met Ukraine's leader Monday to begin talks on a free trade agreement.(International Herald Tribune)
 * February 18, 2008 — Ukraine to determine its position with regard to Kosovo's independence after thoroughly analyzing current situation.(NRCU)
 * February 15, 2008 — The governments of Ukraine and Russia could sign an energy agreement to avoid the kind of gas rows that have alarmed Europe over the past two years.(Reuters)
 * February 15, 2008 — Russia will resume a joint project with Ukraine to build An-70 military transport aircraft after an almost 2-year delay in setting up the program.(RIAN)
 * February 13, 2008 — Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that Russia could target nuclear missiles at Ukraine if its neighbor and former fraternal republic in the Soviet Union joins the NATO alliance and hosts elements of a missile defense system proposed by the Bush administration.(boston.com)
 * February 8, 2008 — State-controlled natural gas giant Gazprom said it could cut off Russian gas to Ukraine as early as Tuesday morning if the neighboring countries fail to settle a debt dispute.(Forbes)
 * February 8, 2008 — Gazprom threatens to halt gas supplies to Ukraine on Feb. 12 for non payment of 1.5 Million dollars outstanding on their account.(RIA Novosit)
 * February 7, 2008 — An explosion went off in a three-storey apartment building in central Lviv, western Ukraine, injuring at least six.(RIA Novosti)
 * February 6, 2008 — Ukraine joined the World Trade Organization on Tuesday after 14 years of negotiations, a milestone for the former Soviet republic that helps clear the way for a valuable free trade agreement with the European Union.(New York Times)
 * February 5, 2008 — Ukraine signs deal opening way to World Trade Organization accession.(RIA Novosit)

January 2008

 * January 30, 2008 — Deputies of the Kiev City Rada have allocated another 8 billion USD for Euro 2012.NRCU
 * January 28, 2008 — The World Trade Organization agreed Friday to accept Ukraine as a member, giving President Viktor Yushchenko a powerful new sales pitch as he made the case here for greater foreign investment.(Kyiv Post)
 * January 25, 2008 — Russia will give up renting the radars in Mukacheve and Sevastopol.(Interfax)
 * January 18, 2008 — The H5N1 strain of avian flu, which can be fatal to humans, has been detected in fowl at a farm on Ukraine's Black Sea Crimea peninsula.(Kyiv Post)


 * January 11, 2008 — Ukraine is beginning on Friday to fulfill election promises of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko (pictured) and repay multi-billion debts of the Soviet Sberkassa to the people.(ITAR-TASS)
 * January 10, 2008 — Russian Foreign Ministry concerned over decision of Constitutional Court of Ukraine on dubbing foreign movies into Ukrainian language.(NRCU)
 * January 9, 2008 — Ukraine likely to accede to World Trade Organization in February.(NRCU)
 * January 8, 2008 — The next bond girl will be a 28-year-old Ukrainian model-turned-actor named Olga Kurylenko.(The Guardian)
 * January 1, 2008 — President Yushchenko addresses the nation on the New Year's eve.(UP)

December 2007

 * December 27, 2007 — Beltway construction around Kiev begins in time for UEFA 2012.(NRCU)


 * December 25, 2007 — An earthquake measuring 4.0 on the Richter scale shook the city of Kryvyi Rih in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.(Korrespondent)
 * December 24, 2007 — Yushchenko appoints Yanukovych ally Raisa Bogatyryova (pictured) to key government post.(Reuters)
 * December 11, 2007 — Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday failed to approve Orange Revolution heroine Yulia Tymoshenko as prime minister in votes that her supporters immediately charged were technically flawed.(Kyiv Post)
 * December 9, 2007 — Five people were killed Sunday when a charter plane flying from the Czech Republic crashed near the Kiev-Zhulyany Airport in Ukraine.(AFP)
 * December 7, 2007 — Oleg Blokhin quit as Ukraine coach on Thursday after his team failed to qualify for Euro 2008.(ESPNsoccernet)
 * December 5, 2007 — With the backing of Ukraine's pro-Western coalition, Ukraine's top diplomat, Foreign Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk (pictured), was elected Speaker of Parliament early Wednesday.(m&G)
 * December 1, 2007 — An explosion early Saturday shook the Zasyadko coal mine where 100 people died in a methane blast two weeks ago, injuring 44 miners but causing no deaths, officials said.(AP)

November 2007

 * November 30, 2007 — Ukraine's AIDS epidemic is the "most severe" in Europe, and is headed towards the general population, not only high-risk groups, UN officials said.(AFP)
 * November 29, 2007 — Ukraine's two pro-Western parties, Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, forged a fragile majority coalition in the parliament Thursday, raising hopes for an end to months of political turmoil.(AP)
 * November 24, 2007 — Ukraine marks the 75th anniversary of Soviet era artificial famine when millions of Ukrainians died from forced starvation.(AP)
 * November 18, 2007 — At least 90 miners died and 10 were missing Sunday after a gas explosion ripped through Ukraine's Zasyadko coal mine (pictured), the emergency situations ministry said.(AFP)
 * November 18, 2007 — The Russian and Ukrainian marine administrations signed temporary regulations on passage of ships through the Kerch Strait.(ITAR-TASS)
 * November 16, 2007 — Top soccer clubs have called for a new Premier League that would give them greater control, making the game in Ukraine more exciting and more profitable.(Guardian)
 * November 12, 2007 — Rescuers are searching for 20 sailors missing after a powerful storm hit the Azov and Black Seas on Sunday.(BBC News)
 * November 12, 2007 — Foreign Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk discussed Ukraine's joining the WTO with his Kyrgyz counterpart Ednan Karabaev in Bishkek today.(UNIAN)
 * November 11, 2007 — Up to 2,000 metric tons of fuel oil have leaked near the Black Sea after a Russian oil tanker split in half.(BBC News)
 * November 9, 2007 — Russia's state-controlled gas monopoly has reached a preliminary agreement on the price of gas supplies to Ukraine, and Ukraine has settled its debt for previous shipments.(Forbes)
 * November 5, 2007 — Former Soviet and Ukrainian international defender Oleg Luzhny was appointed interim manager of Ukraine's champions FC Dynamo Kiev after Josef Szabo was hospitalised with a heart attack.(AFP)

October 2007

 * October 14, 2007 — Nationalists and leftists scuffled on Sunday at commemorations for a World War II guerrilla group that fought both the Nazis and the Red Army, an issue still dividing post-Soviet Ukraine more than six decades later.(Reuters)
 * October 13, 2007 — Between 10 and 13 people were killed in a natural gas explosion that destroyed much of a 10-storey apartment building in Dnipropetrovsk, eastern Ukraine, officials said Sunday.(AFP)
 * October 13, 2007 — President Viktor Yushchenko signed a decree which commemorates the 65th anniversary of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.(Korrespondent)
 * October 12, 2007 — Yulia Tymoshenko, the top contender for the post of Prime Minister in Ukraine after parliamentary elections, vowed Friday to cede some Cabinet powers to President Viktor Yushchenko if she gets the job.(Kyiv Post)
 * October 5, 2007 — A full tally of Ukraine's election results confirmed Friday that parties loyal to President Viktor Yushchenko and his main Orange Revolution ally won a majority in parliament, but uncertainty loomed over the makeup of the new government.(AP)
 * October 5, 2007 — Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom said it would continue talks with Ukraine next week on gas supplies and Kiev's debts for them, despite earlier announcing that the issues had been resolved.(Reuters)

September 2007

 * September 24, 2007 — Officials from Ukraine's national intelligence agency accused a provincial election council of registering close to 100,000 non-existent persons on voter rolls, Korrespondent magazine reported Monday.(IOL)
 * September 17, 2007 — New sarcophagus to be erected over Chernobyl's fourth reactor by a French consortium Novarka.(AFP)

August 2007

 * August 26, 2007 — Ukraine's opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko has said she believes that the early parliamentary ballot due to be held in September will be rigged.(BBC News)


 * August 24, 2007 — Ukraine marks independence day (pictured), celebrating the declaration made August 24, 1991.(Washington Post)
 * August 21, 2007 — The Seven Wonders of Ukraine are officially announced.(Kyiv Post)
 * August 20, 2007 — The Central Election Commission of Ukraine declared the Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc as unlawful and unconstitutional and rejected to register their 295 candidates to the Verkhovna Rada.(Korrespondent)
 * August 20, 2007 — The island of Khortytsia was a blaze for more than three hours.(Korrespondent)
 * August 11, 2007 — Leonid Stadnyk is world's tallest man as recognized by Guinness World Records. Stadnyk is 2.53 metres tall.(Scotsman)
 * August 10, 2007 — A small crocodile called Godzik escaped from its cage in Mariupol, southern Ukraine.(Inquirer)

July 2007

 * July 31, 2007 — SBU (logo pictured) seized 174 kg of heroin in Illichevsk, Odessa Oblast hidden in the false bottom of a truck that arrived by ferry from Georgia.(RFERL)
 * July 17, 2007 — Ukrainian railway accident generated huge phosphor cloud in Lviv Oblast.(WikiNews)
 * July 5, 2007 — An electoral bloc Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc was created for the up-coming snap election in September. Lutsenko will lead the new political entity.(BBCUkrainian)
 * July 5, 2007 — Ukraine's government fails to implement reforms in its fight against human trafficking.(KyivPost)

June 2007

 * June 28, 2007 — Yushchenko calls for decreases in parliament's size and its term length.(Ukrayinska Pravda)
 * June 26, 2007 — Procession against racism will take place in Ukraine on the eve of the June 28th Constitution Day.(ForUm)
 * June 18, 2007 — Elton John gives AIDS charity concert in Kiev, Ukraine.(KyivPost)
 * June 18, 2007 — Jobs at Philip Morris Ukraine, Kyivstar, Coca-Cola Beverages Ukraine are among the most wanted in the country.(rynok.biz)
 * June 12, 2007 — Ukrainian GDP to grow by 7.6% in 2007.(rynok.biz)
 * June 9, 2007 — Yushchenko pledges to sign WTO bill, approved by the parliament last week, into law.FinancialTimes
 * June 7, 2007 — Pepsi buys Ukrainian drinks firm "Sandora." (BBC News)
 * June 1, 2007 — Ukraine celebrates Europe Day on June 2nd, 2007.(ECD)

May 2007

 * May 31, 2007 — Ukrainian Interior Minister Vasyl Tsushko's heart attack was caused by poisoning according to his lawyer.(Interfax)
 * May 29, 2007 — Ukrainian Berkut police force beats football fans at Sunday's Ukrainian cup final between FC Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk.(Korrespondent)
 * May 28, 2007 — FC Dynamo Kyiv beat arch-rivals Shakhtar Donetsk 2-1 in the Ukrainian Cup final on Sunday to retain the trophy for a fourth straight year.(St. Petersburg Times)
 * May 23, 2007 — The Constitutional Court of Ukraine restricts the president's influence on courts.(Ukrainian National Radio)
 * May 21, 2007 — The U.N. Committee against Torture voiced deep concern over reports of ill-treatment of pre-trial suspects in Ukraine and said it provided "insufficient legal safeguards" for detainees.(AlertNet)
 * May 21, 2007 — The unrecognized Kiev Patriarchate's Metropolitan Yevsevy of Rivne and Ostroh held a memorial service for fighters of Stepan Bandera's Ukrainian Insurgent Army.(Interfax)
 * May 21, 2007 — Ukrainian Constitutional Court judge Dmytro Lylak has sent in his resignation to the president.(REGNUM)
 * May 20, 2007 — Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko led the country in a minute's silence today to commemorate an estimated 80,000-120,000 victims of the communist regime who were killed by the Soviets between 1936 and 1941.(RadioFreeEurope)
 * May 19, 2007 — The Ukrainian Festival kicked off its 31st annual 3-day event featuring local and international talent, arts, crafts and delicacies in East Village, Manhattan, New York City.(East-Village)
 * May 17, 2007 — Petro Balabuyev, a lead designer of the world's largest aircraft, the An-225, died Thursday at age 75.(Chron)
 * May 17, 2007 — The chief judge of Ukraine's Constitutional Court has resigned while leading deliberations on a constitutional crisis that has all but paralyzed the Kiev government.(VOA News)
 * May 12, 2007 — Verka Serduchka's Dancing Lasha Tumbai won second place in the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest with 235 points after Serbia's Molitva with 268 points.
 * May 12, 2007 — The City hall of the west-Ukrainian city of Lviv passed by a majority vote a decision to pull down Soviet-era monuments.(Mediafax)
 * May 11, 2007 — The Secretariat of Ukrainian President says it has evidence that the criminal leaders of Ukraine are cooperating with some of the most radical political forces to split the country.(Interfax)
 * May 11, 2007 — The informal energy meeting of developing countries in Kraków agreed Friday to extend the existing Odessa-Brody pipeline to Polish terminals and refining centers and create a corridor to bring Central Asian energy to Europe bypassing Russia.(RIA Novosti)
 * May 9, 2007 — A methane gas explosion deep underground in an eastern Ukrainian coal mine killed three miners and injured 18 early Wednesday, emergency officials said.(Houston Chronicle)
 * May 7, 2007 — A 30 meter section of a gas pipeline (pictured) in Luka (near Kiev) has been destroyed by an explosion.(Reuters)
 * May 5, 2007 — Representatives of Ukrainian parliament parties, of the President and the Prime Minister have agreed to form a working group to improve the Constitution.(ITAR-TASS)

April 2007

 * April 25, 2007 — Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has said that early parliamentary elections will be held on June 24, a month later than the date he set in a decree that sparked a political crisis in Kiev.(ABC News Online)
 * April 25, 2007 — Ukraine's president says region around Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant must be put to use again.(Kyiv Post)
 * April 25, 2007 — Ukraine-NATO Commission session to take place on April 27 in Oslo.(ForUm)
 * April 24, 2007 — All 18 judges attending Ukraine's Constitutional Court session.(Interfax)
 * April 20, 2007 — Ukraine must pass nine pieces of legislation within the next month to join the World Trade Organization this year.(Javno)
 * April 20, 2007 — Ukraine and Europe are developing project on nuclear waste utilization in space.(National Radio of Ukraine)
 * April 19, 2007 — Poland and Ukraine will host the European soccer championship in 2012 (map) after UEFA awarded them the tournament ahead of Italy and another joint bid from Hungary and Croatia.(The Age)
 * April 17, 2007 — Constitutional Court to review Yushchenko decree nonstop April 17-27 -1.(RIA Novosti)
 * April 12, 2007 — Ukraine's Constitutional Court opens hearings into president's decree dissolving parliament.(International Tribune)
 * April 11, 2007 — Ukraine's Constitutional Court to hold hearings on decree April 11.(Interfax)
 * April 10, 2007 — Opposition MPs in Ukraine accuse Yushchenko of pressurising constitutional court.(Forbes)
 * April 2, 2007 — Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has dissolved the parliament during a nationally televised speech.(All Headline News)
 * April 1, 2007 — Tens of thousands of demonstrators called on Ukraine's president Saturday to defeat a challenge from the rival prime minister by dissolving parliament and calling new elections, a move that could throw the former Soviet republic into crisis.(Chicago Tribune)

March 2007

 * March 31, 2007 — 50 thousand people are meeting on Maidan Nezalezhnosti in support of the opposition.(Korrespondent)
 * March 30, 2007 — Ukrainian capital Kiev braces for major rallies as political tension mounts.(International Herald Tribune)
 * March 27, 2007 — Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is indignant over the transition of members of the parliamentary opposition to a future National Unity Coalition and regards it as a violation of the Constitution.(ITAR-TASS)
 * March 27, 2007 — Ukrainian Foreign Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk stated his confidence that a new agreement with the European Union must be an "ambitious and far-seeing" document.(ForUm)
 * March 21, 2007 — Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has called to draft a national development strategy through "the consensus of political forces."(Interfax)
 * March 21, 2007 — NATO experts will discuss with the Ukrainian military issues related to completing planning of experts training course on conducting in April a self-estimation of Ukraine's fleet detachments.(National Radio of Ukraine)
 * March 20, 2007 — Ukrainian police on Tuesday raided and searched the home of a top leader of the opposition, Yury Lutsenko, for alleged weapons possession violations while serving as the country's top cop.(m&c)
 * March 16, 2007 — Ukraine's oldest man Hryhoriy Nestor, who was born on March 15, 1891, turns 116 years old.(BBC News)
 * March 12, 2007 — Ukraine plans to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) later this year.(RIA Novosti)
 * March 9, 2007 — The presidents of Poland and Ukraine confirmed their 100% commitment to do everything necessary to help their respective Football Associations to secure the rights to host the UEFA European Football Championship in 2012.(Tribalfootball)
 * March 7, 2007 — The Polish and Ukrainian presidents on Wednesday announced plans for a five-country energy summit to discuss transporting Caspian Sea oil westward via Ukraine as their nations try to reduce their dependence on Russian supplies.(Kyiv Post)
 * March 7, 2007 — The United States House of Representatives majority approved a bill Tuesday providing support and funding for Ukraine and Georgia's membership to NATO.(Yerkir)
 * March 7, 2007 — The European Union Wednesday approved € 494 million in aid to Ukraine through 2010 to support economic and political reforms.(UNIAN)
 * March 5, 2007 — Negotiations between Ukraine and the European Union on reaching new enhanced agreement started in Brussels.(National Radio of Ukraine)
 * March 3, 2007 — Monument to great Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko inaugurated in Tbilisi, Georgia.(National Radio of Ukraine)
 * March 2, 2007 — Ukraine's president said Friday he supported opening a museum dedicated to Soviet repression in Ukraine, but acknowledged that it would be difficult.(Kyiv Post)
 * March 1, 2007 — Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili (pictured) held a joint press conference in Tbilisi on Thursday after meeting one-on-one and chairing Ukrainian-Georgian talks.(ForUm)
 * March 1, 2007 — The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is concerned about the Ukrainian constitutional crisis in Ukraine.(UNIAN)

February 2007

 * February 25, 2007 — Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko's bloc and pro-presidential Our Ukraine signed an agreement on Saturday to form an opposition alliance in parliament. The agreement also included Socialist Party factions.(All Headline News)
 * February 24, 2007 — Opposition leaders in the Ukrainian parliament, Yulia Tymoshenko and Vyacheslav Kyrylenko Saturday in a letter to President Viktor Yushchenko expressing concern over current policies conducted by the parliament majority coalition and the government led by Viktor Yanukovych urging the President to intervene.(RIA Novosti)
 * February 22, 2007 — Ukraine and Russia approach their positions in determination of state border line in Sea of Azov (pictured).(ForUm)
 * February 22, 2007 — The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has accused Moscow Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov of interference in internal affairs of Ukraine by his statements at a meeting in Sevastopol on Wednesday.(ITAR-TASS)
 * February 21, 2007 — President Viktor Yushchenko: Learning and speaking Ukrainian is essential for every citizen.(Ukrainian National Radio)
 * February 20, 2007 — The State Veterinary Department of Ukraine has temporarily forbidden the poultry import to Ukraine from the Moscow Oblast of Russia, as there are speculations that the birds may have fallen ill with avian flu.(UNIAN)
 * February 17, 2007 — The official report into the crash of a Russian passenger jet over Donetsk, Ukraine last year has concluded that pilot error was to blame.(BBC News)
 * February 16, 2007 — Ukraine, Lithuania and Belarus said that they will establish an oil supply system that will serve as an alternative to Russian energy supplies to secure soft landing in case Moscow cuts deliveries.(mosnews)
 * February 14, 2007 — Methane leak kills 3 coal miners in eastern Ukraine, Donetsk Oblast.(AP)
 * February 12, 2007 — A former Ukrainian foreign minister said Monday that Russia's purported decision to blacklist Volodymyr Ohryzko is an attempt to foil his confirmation by parliament as the new foreign minister.(RIA Novosti)
 * February 12, 2007 — The Justice Ministry plans to complete suggestions and proposals from society and to submit for consideration to the Cabinet new version of the draft bill "On introduction of changes to the Law of Ukraine" up to March 1, 2007.(ForUm)


 * February 9, 2007 — People's deputies of Ukraine have given its first reading to the draft bill on amendments to the Law on Cabinet of Ministers and on local state administration by 240 votes.(ForUM)
 * February 9, 2007 — Socialists revealed Yushchenko’s plan to destabilize the situation.(ForUM)
 * February 7, 2007 — Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said that it had demanded an explanation after Russia barred entry to a Ukrainian lawmaker Petro Poroshenko.(Kyiv Post)
 * February 7, 2007 — Victor Yushchenko has sent a letter to Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych with a request to take measures to dub or subtitle foreign films for Ukrainian-speaking audiences.(en.for-ua)
 * February 7, 2007 — The Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada passed a bill banning any operations with the Ukrainian gas transporting system; a total of 430 out of 450 MPs voted for amending the Ukrainian law On Pipeline Transportation.(REGNUM)
 * February 6, 2007 — Yulia Tymoshenko Electoral Bloc leader Yulia Tymoshenko said that Our Ukraine and BYuT signed a declaration on joint opposition activities in the Verkhovna Rada.(Ukrainian National Radio)
 * February 3, 2007 — Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has called on Ukraine's medical community and public organizations to promote healthy lifestyles, including alcohol and smoking abstinence.(Interfax)
 * February 2, 2007 — Ukraine's Aerosvit and UIA may cancel all flights due to 40% fuel price increase.(AP)
 * February 2, 2007 — Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych stresses the necessity to adapt Ukrainian legislation to the European standards, according to the press-service of the Cabinet of Ministers.(Ukrayinska Pravda)

January 2007

 * January 30, 2007 — Ukraine says Poland undermining Euro 2012 bid.(Reuters)
 * January 26, 2007 — Russia's OAO Gazprom sought to assure jittery Europeans on Friday that new deals for the sale of natural gas to Belarus and Ukraine would prevent any more disruptions to Western Europe.(Canada)
 * January 26, 2007 — Ukraine is a primary candidate to the World Trade Organization, Director General Pascal Lamy told Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych in Davos on Friday.(ITAR-TASS)
 * January 26, 2007 — Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Friday signed into law a plan for a massive privatization of state properties including the national telephone company Ukrtelecom.(m&g)
 * January 22, 2007 — Ukraine celebrates the Reunification Day of Ukraine. PM Yanukovych and VR speaker Moroz placed flowers at T. Shevchenko and M. Hrushevsky memorials.(ForUm)
 * January 20, 2007 — Ukraine has suspended Russian crude oil deliveries on the main export pipeline to central Europe due to storms, the Emergencies Ministry in Lviv Oblast said yesterday.(The Times, Malta)
 * January 17, 2007 — Verkhovna Rada (building pictured) limits the power of president in Ukraine.(KyivPost)


 * January 16, 2007 — Governments of Ukraine and Estonia sign cooperation agreement in economic sector.(NRCU)
 * January 15, 2007 — In a major blow to Ukraine's president, Viktor Yushchenko, the country's parliament on Friday boosted the authority of the government headed by his arch-rival, Viktor Yanukovich, the prime minister.(Unian)
 * January 15, 2007 — Ukrainian and Romanian presidents Viktor Yushchenko and Traian Băsescu have discussed deeper bilateral cooperation in energy and support for ethnic minorities (map pictured).(Itar-Tass)
 * January 15, 2007 — Foreign Ministers of Ukraine and Czech Republic Borys Tarasiuk and Karel Schwarzenberg signed Joint declaration on cooperation in realization of Ukraine-EU Action Plan.(ForUm)
 * January 13, 2007 — Our Ukraine faction walked out on the Friday session of the Verkhovna Rada after lawmakers had overridden the President's veto of the Law On the Cabinet of Ministers.(Ukrayinska Pravda)
 * January 12, 2007 — The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine appointed Volodymyr Radchenko as the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, with a support of 251 lawmakers out of 441 registered in the chamber.(Unian)
 * January 12, 2007 — Tymoshenko: “Our Ukraine” shames Ukraine world over, Our Ukraine blocking the Parliamentary tribune.(For-ua)
 * January 11, 2007 — The transit of crude oil via the southern branch of the Druzhba oil pipeline that is located in Ukraine has resumed in full, adviser to the UkrTransNafta CEO Oleksandr Dykusarov told Interfax.(Interfax)
 * January 11, 2007 — President Victor Yushchenko, Verkhovna Rada Speaker Oleksandr Moroz and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych have discussed an agenda for 2007, according to the President's press-office.(Unian)
 * January 11, 2007 — President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko has signed the law to extend the moratorium on sale of farmland, press office of the President reported.(ForUm)
 * January 10, 2007 — Ukrzaliznytsia, Ukraine’s state railway company, inches closer to high-speed standards.(Kyiv Post)
 * January 6, 2007 — Two sailors, including one Russian, from a cargo ship died and eight were hospitalized with poisoning, apparently caused by a chemical reaction, off Ukraine's Black Sea coast, emergencies services said Saturday.(RIA Novosti)
 * January 5, 2007 — Ukraine expects that in the frameworks of the Commonwealth of Independent States (flag pictured) it will manage to set up a free trade zone, to unify customs procedures and to improve a regulatory policy.(Ukrayinska Pravda)
 * January 5, 2006 — Ukraine's economy grew by about 7 percent in 2006 despite Russia nearly doubling its price for natural gas.(Miami Herald)
 * January 3, 2006 — Ukraine is believed to be sitting on more gaseous fuel than its principal supplier of natural gas, Turkmenistan. Estimates give Ukraine at least three times the amount of natural gas in Turkmenistan, and four times that in Russia's Shtokman gas field.(Radio Free Europe)
 * January 1, 2006 — Massive statue of Taras Shevchenko, a Ukrainian poet, was stolen from an Oakville, Ontario park.(Canada)

December 2006

 * December 29, 2005 — Ukraine's Central Election Commission on Friday approved signatures collected by the United Social Democratic Party of Ukraine in support of holding a plebiscite on whether the ex-Soviet republic should join NATO, officials said.(International Herald Tribune)
 * December 29, 2005 — An exhibit of Cuban posters created in the decades of the 70s and 80s have become the main attraction of the Maisternaya Art Gallery in the house of the outstanding Ukrainian painter in Kiev since Thursday.(Plenglish)
 * December 9, 2006 — The Black Sea navy fleet accord between Russia and Ukraine remains unchanged.(Interfax)

November 2006

 * November 28, 2006 — Ukrainian parliament recognizes Soviet-era famine as genocide.(AP)
 * November 23, 2006 — SBU documents show that Moscow singled out Ukraine in famine(5tv)
 * November 18, 2006 — International trade lawyer bullish on Ukraine’s WTO membership (Kyiv Post)
 * November 10, 2006 — Moody's changes outlook on Ukraine bonds to positive.(Reuters)
 * November 6, 2006 — Ukraine's President marks 63rd anniversary of Kiev (Kyiv) liberation.(ForUm)
 * November 1, 2006 — Ukraine hopes to join WTO by February 2007.(5tv)
 * October 17, 2006 — Ukraine hopes to finish visa regime negotiations with the European Union by the end of October.(ForUm)

October 2006

 * October 10, 2006 — Next year, 2007, to be a year of Kazakhstan in Ukraine.(ForUm)
 * October 5, 2006 — "Ukraine's choice: toward Europe," a letter by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych to The Washington Post.(Washington Post)

September 2006

 * September 24, 2006 — Coal mining in Ukraine, a dangerous profession, as 17 miners recently die in three separate accidents in Donetsk Oblast.(AP)
 * September 20, 2006 — Ukraine seeks UN General Assembly resolution declaring 1932-33 famine a genocide.(AP)
 * September 18, 2006 — US envoy to Ukraine to commemorate Nazi massacre victims in Kiev.(Deutsche Presse Agentur)
 * September 12, 2006 — Yushchenko asks Verkhovna Rada to support tough new anti-corruption measures.(AP)
 * September 8, 2006 — Bronze Age pyramid found in Ukraine near Luhansk. Archeologists claim the discovered structure predates Egyptian pyramids by 300 years.(Guardian)
 * September 4, 2006 — The Cabinet of Ministers orders a financial audit of Naftogaz Ukraine.(ForUm)

August 2006

 * August 28, 2006 — Ukrainian-Russian intergovernmental commission completes investigation of Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crash. According to preliminary data, the TU-154 crash was caused by the strong turbulence zone, which the plane entered. (ForUm)
 * August 26, 2006 — Evgeny Kucherevsky, a famous Soviet-Ukrainian footballer, died today after his Mercedes-Benz got into a head-on collision with a KAMAZ truck.
 * August 25, 2006 — Pavlo Lazarenko faces prison term for extortion. $114 million was directed from Ukraine to banks mostly in San Francisco, United States. (AP)
 * August 22, 2006 — Russian airliner crashes in eastern Ukraine 45km (30miles) north of Donetsk. 170 people were on board, including 10 crew and 39 children. (BBC News)
 * August 18, 2006 — Ukraine opens up files on Stalin-era famines. The SBU declassified over 130 state archive files.(RFE/RL)
 * August 16, 2006 — Interim natural gas deal reached between Russia and Ukraine. Terms for 2007 still need to be secured by Putin and Yanukovych. (VOA News)
 * August 14, 2006 — Maccabi vs. Liverpool UEFA Champions League qualifier will be played in Kiev, Ukraine due to the Israel-Lebanon conflict. (4THEGAME.COM)
 * August 10, 2006 — Ukraine will uphold an existing gas deal with Russia. "Ukraine is a key transit route for Russian gas to European markets." (Reuters)
 * August 4, 2006 — The Parliament of Ukraine appointed Viktor Yanukovych a PM on the nominaition of the President Viktor Yushchenko. The composition of an entire Cabinet of Ministers has been approved as well.(BBC)
 * August 2, 2006 — Yushchenko agreed to officially propose the parliament nominated Yanukovych for PM after the latter signed up to a declaration of principles safeguarding Ukraine's policies of closer integration with Europe and market reforms. (AFP)

July 2006

 * July 28, 2006 — Yushchenko led Rada talks continue behind closed doors for the second day. Former president Kravchuk is also present (Ukrainian) Ukrayinska Pravda.
 * July 26, 2006 — Ukraine mills over 11 million tons of grain. (Agricultural Market)
 * July 24, 2006 — Ukraine's coalition waits for President Victor Yushchenko to act on PM nominee ahead of midnight deadline. (AP)
 * July 24, 2006 — A major pro-Israel rally takes place in Kiev, Ukraine's capital, as the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict continues. (Reuters AlertNet)
 * July 24, 2006 — Ukraine remembers victims of the Holocaust. A commemorating monument has been dedicated in Zolochiv, Lviv Oblast. (FJC CIS)
 * July 17, 2006 — Serhiy Rebrov FC Dynamo Kyiv striker was selected the Ukrainian Premier League's Player of the Season for 2005-2006.
 * July, 2006 — Ukraine national football team reached the quarterfinals during World Cup 2006.

May 2006

 * May 20, 2006 — Ukraine's foreign minister, Borys Tarasyuk, said Saturday the country's aim of full membership in the European Union remained unchanged.
 * May 20, 2006 — Ukraine can count on support from the U.S. if it wishes to reconsider its gas agreements with Russia, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst has said.
 * May 20, 2006 — Ukraine owes Russia USD 400 million for natural gas supplies.
 * May 19, 2006 — Ukrainian cultural figures and celebrities criticized efforts Friday to grant the Russian language special status, calling it an act of war against Ukrainian.
 * May 19, 2006 — Ukraine has already started fulfilling a NATO membership action plan, even though the country has yet to be invited to join the alliance.

April 2006

 * April 20, 2006 — Ukraine asks the organization of former Soviet republics to recognize the Holodomor as genocide.
 * April 20, 2006 — Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Wednesday called for further support from the international community so that the country can recover from the continuing effects of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
 * April 20, 2006 — US party asks for Ukraine's participation in establishing nuclear regulation body in Iraq.
 * April 20, 2006 — Vanco Energy, a privately held Houston, Texas-based oil and gas company that specializes in deep-water oil and gas exploration and development, has won the bid for developing a gas deposit on the sea shelf off the Ukrainian part of the Black Sea.
 * 18 April 2006 — Greenpeace report says Chernobyl death toll has been underestimated. (Article in Wikinews)

2005

 * December 31, 2005 — Russian prelate wants Ukrainian Catholic move to Kiev reversed. (Catholic World News)
 * December 27, 2005 — Russian prosecutors said Monday that they had dropped charges against Yulia Tymoshenko, the former prime minister of Ukraine, who had been accused of offering bribes to Russian officials as head of Ukraine's gas company. (Reuters)
 * December 22, 2005 — Bulgaria and Ukraine have withdrawn hundreds of troops from Iraq this week as part of the general wind down after the national elections. (The Age)
 * December 19, 2005 — Talks between the prime ministers of Russia and Ukraine failed on Monday to bring the two neighbors closer to a deal on gas supplies amid an intensifying row that has strained relations between the two former Soviet republics. (Xinhua)
 * July 18, 2005 — President Yushchenko odered the country's traffic police (DAI) disbanded because it has proved impossible to stamp out corruption.
 * July 12, 2005 — President Yushchenko, visiting Vienna, Austria, announced that visa requirements for citizens of Canada and Japan would soon be lifted. The nationals of the U.S. and the EU states already can enter Ukraine without visas.
 * July 9, 2005 — the G8 leaders also increased their pledges to approximately $1 billion to fund construction of a new protective encasement in Ukraine to cover the remnants of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor (pictured) to improve safety and security.
 * June 30, 2005 — Ukraine is making it easier for U.S. nationals to obtain visas. Visas would no longer be required by U.S. citizens making a second trip within six months. Citizens of EU states and Switzerland have been allowed visa-free entry to Ukraine on an experimental basis from May to September.
 * June 27, 2005 — the Ukrainian Parliament registered a bill that will require government agencies, and state-controlled companies, to give preference to open source software.
 * June 15, 2005 — the European Union and Ukraine agreed on the cooperation of the development of Galileo, the European civilian global positioning satellite system. The agreement would allow Ukrainian companies to join the EU financed development of Galileo.
 * May 21, 2005 — the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 was won by the entry from Greece, Helena Paparizou (pictured). The competition was held in Kiev, Ukraine, after its entry, Ruslana, had won the 2004 contest singing Wild Dances. Both events were televised across Europe...