Arseniy Yatsenyuk, a former parliament speaker and foreign minister of Ukraine, turns 35 on May 22, clearing the way for him to run as a candidate in the January 2010 presidential elections. Now it is time for him to begin considering his campaign tactics, and he faces three choices.
What is a strategic partner when it stops acting like one? That's the question the EU must answer as its representatives meet Russian leaders for a biannual summit. The two sides' disputes have multiplied over the past year, and relentless Russian pressure is putting the EU's drive for pragmatic cooperation under increasing strain.
A group of Crimean Tatars is continuing a protest action in front of the government building in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
The World Congress of Crimean Tatars (Kurultai) has opened in the Crimean city of Bakhchisaray, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
Ukraine's State Security Service (SBU) is asking Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) to declassify all documents regarding the deportation of the Crimean Tatars to Central Asia 65 years ago.
At least 15,000 Crimean Tatars gathered in central Simferopol to mark the 65th anniversary of their deportation and to demand linguistic and political rights.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko's chief of staff, a figure who had long exerted considerable influence over the former Soviet republic's leader, has tendered his resignation, Ukrainian media report.
This year's Eurovision contest saw a number of nations turning away from homegrown artists in favor of foreign-born stars with broader appeal.
Ukraine's parliament has urged the government to suspend Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko, pending an inquiry into an altercation at Frankfurt airport where police detained him for being drunk and disorderly.
Russia aims to speed up the new South Stream gas link to Europe by signing deals with transit states, and has rebuked the United States and former Soviet satellite states for backing a rival project.
Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) officials have announced that they have determined the identities of 14,191 people killed by order of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and buried in the Bykivnia forest outside of Kyiv.
A top Ukrainian court has ruled as unconstitutional the October 25 date set by parliament for the next presidential election in the former Soviet republic, a Reuters witness said.
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