The Interfax news agency quotes Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko as saying that 48 people have died of swine flu in the country.
As every good Slavic studies student knows, it's "Ukraine," without the definite article. But Dick Cheney and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko are reportedly at odds. Slate has more:
Ukraine has closed schools, banned public events, and is restricting internal travel for three weeks following the country's first death from H1N1 swine flu. There are worries the tough measures could affect the country's presidential election in January.
Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev says he believes Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) is behind a special operation to assassinate him, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.
Seven people in the western Ukrainian city of Ternopil have died from an unknown flu virus, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
From Kyiv to Tbilisi and from Warsaw to Prague, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has been insisting that Washington stands by its friends in the former communist bloc -- even as it seeks better relations with Moscow. So how's he doing?
Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko says members of a radical Islamic movement arrested on October 26 planned to kill the leader of the Crimean Tatars, Mustafa Dzhemilev, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
What's your idea of the best place in which to live? Many people would probably answer that palm trees and a gleaming beach would be a good start to their idea of earthly paradise. But in real life, the country which scores best on a whole range of economic and quality-of-life issues is a good deal colder.
The International Monetary Fund said economic and financial conditions in Ukraine had stabilized but said it needs assurances that wage increases approved by the country's parliament will be vetoed before any further collaboration.
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has formally joined the race to become Ukraine's next president, pledging to move Ukraine closer to Europe. Tymoshenko's party nominated her as its candidate at a rally October 24 attended by thousands of supporters.
A group in the Ukrainian city of Lviv has started gathering oral histories of the victims of the Communist regime, to be collected at a special library, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
Five people have applied to be registered as candidates in Ukraine's January 2010 presidential election, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
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