Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko yesterday declared his feud with Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych “finished” after the political rivals agreed on holding snap parliamentary elections in September, AFP reported on Monday, May 28.
Popularity: 2% [?]
May 28, 2007Special forces loyal to Ukraine’s leader Viktor Yushchenko headed for the capital Saturday, raising fears of violence as a feud between the ex-Soviet state’s president and prime minister deepened, AFP news agency reported on Saturday, May 26.
Popularity: 3% [?]
May 26, 2007Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych called the presidential decree on disbanding the Supreme Rada and holding new parliamentary elections on June 24 unconstitutional, Russian news agency RIA-Novosti reported on Thursday quoting prime minister’s head of staf.
Popularity: 2% [?]
April 27, 2007Ukraine’s Supreme Administrative Court has banned holding early parliamentary elections May 27 amid the ongoing political turmoil in the former Soviet country, Russian news agency RIA-Novosti reported quoting an official statement by the Ukrainian Justice Minister.
Popularity: 2% [?]
April 26, 2007Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has vowed to press ahead with early elections in a fighting speech aimed at his rebellious prime minister, the AFP news agency reported Monday.
Popularity: 2% [?]
April 9, 2007A Russian businessman who backed Ukraine’s prime minister in the disputed 2004 elections was shot dead by a sniper outside a Kiev court on Tuesday, the Financial Times daily reports.
Popularity: 4% [?]
March 29, 2007
Vladimir Putin will seek to improve ties with Ukraine on a visit Friday, in the midst of a power struggle between the former Soviet partner’s president and premier over whether its future lies with Russia or the West, Bloomberg reports.
Popularity: 3% [?]
December 22, 2006
Russian President Vladimir Putin is to visit Ukraine on December 22.
Popularity: 3% [?]
November 30, 2006Pro-Russian activists and their Ukrainian nationalist opponents clashed Saturday in the capital, police said, highlighting divisions in this former Soviet nation.
Some 20 pro-Russian activists tried to hold a march in downtown Kiev as about 50 rival activists with Ukrainian flags gathered to protest against the rally, Kiev police spokesman Volodymyr Polishchuk is quoted by the AP.
Popularity: 2% [?]
November 7, 2006
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