Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is considering two candidates for the vacant defense minister's post, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
At least a dozen statues of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin remain standing in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. Some residents see them as simple historical monuments; others have tried to take down the statues with their own hands. But as disputes continue at the municipal and national levels, Lenin isn't likely to disappear from the city any time soon.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has announced that the government will bail out three of five banks hit particularly hard by the financial crisis, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
Some 300 NGO members and business owners in Kyiv picketed the Ukrainian parliament to demand the resignation of the capital's controversial mayor, Leonid Chernovetsky, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
Inspired by The Atlantic's mock "World Leaders" Facebook group, RFE/RL presents a Facebook-style summary of last week's events.
An EU delegation embarks on a two-day mission to Kyiv and Moscow in a bid to avert a future gas spat with Russia and Ukraine. Kyiv recently prevented an immediate crisis, but five months after Russia's shock cutoff, the threat of a new disruption looms large.
Ukraine's Interior Ministry says Russian seamen are regularly violating immigration laws in Sevastopol, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
Crimean Muslim Mufti Emirali Hajji Ablayev says the local government should stop registering "radical Islamic groups," RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
Rescue teams are pressing on with efforts to find seven miners missing deep underground in Ukraine's Donbass coalfield more than 24 hours after an accident that killed six of their comrades.
Ukraine's main opposition party backed out of creating a coalition with Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's bloc on June 7, leaving unresolved a tense political situation that has crippled the country for years.
As voters went to cast their ballots in European Parliament elections, RFE/RL spoke to British historian Timothy Garton Ash about the definition of Europe. Garton Ash explained how a common vision defines Europe as much as geography, and why the EU must stay true to its philosophy of expansion.
As Eastern Europe prepares to mark 20 years since the fall of communism, many countries find themselves grappling with spiraling racist violence. Why have ultranationalist groups been gaining momentum and claiming a rising number of victims?
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