Former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko has requested that witnesses in his trial be forced to attend and testify.
A leading global index of economic freedom has ranked Ukraine near the bottom for the third straight year. The country ranked alongside Uzbekistan and Chad and was the least-free among the 43 countries in the Europe region. The results are dismal since the government of President Viktor Yanukovych has been promising much-needed reforms since he took office at the beginning of 2010. But Ukrainian businesses are yet to feel the results.
Some 15 women activists were barred from wishing jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko a happy New Year at the labor camp in eastern Ukraine where she is being held.
On this week's edition of The Blender, a look back at the best of the past year, as RFE/RL's only weekly English-language podcast celebrates its first anniversary.
Some 200 veterans of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster clean-up have rallied in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk to demand that they receive full pension payments.
Police in eastern Ukraine have launched an investigation into the alleged theft of tents owned by supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
Czech authorities say the husband of imprisoned Ukrainian ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko has received asylum in the European Union country as a form of "international protection."
Sergei Kupriyanov, an official representative of Russia's state-owned natural gas giant Gazprom, said today that Ukraine cannot cut in half the amount of gas it is contracted to purchase from Gazprom.
Authorities in eastern Ukraine have fenced off an area outside the labor camp housing former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko that her supporters were using to stage protests.
Ukrainian Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko has said that in 2012 his country will reduce the amount of natural gas it uses by 50 percent.
Tents used by people in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv rallying for jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko have been forcibly dismantled.
Speaking in Prague, Oleksandr Tymoshenko, the husband of imprisoned former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, accuses the authorities in Kyiv of trying to "physically destroy" his wife.
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