Ukraine crisis abates as deal is reached
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KIEV -- Ukraine's feuding president and prime minister agreed early today to hold an early parliamentary election on Sept. 30, diffusing a months-long political crisis that had threatened to escalate into violence.
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KIEV -- Talks between Ukraine's two rival presidential candidates broke down yesterday, but the arrival of a key European Union envoy offered fresh prospects that a peaceful solution to the crisis over the nation's disputed election could be found.
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KIEV, Ukraine  - Ukraine's outgoing leader denied  on Tuesday he had agreed on concessions with his opponents to  end a crisis that has plunged the country into turmoil and  driven a wedge between Russia and the West.
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KIEV, Ukraine - Ukraine&#39;s opposition and pro-government factions reached a compromise today on changes in the election law and constitutional amendments, enabling the new Dec. 26 presidential runoff to go forth.
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Ukraine is suspending privatisation of petroleum-processing industry. Outgoing President Leonid Kuchma has signed a respective bill which the Rada (parliament) passed, December 23, reports the presidential ...
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Ukraine's two presidential rivals were due to meet for the first time in the presence of top European and Russian mediators in a bid to resolve a five-day political crisis that has paralyzed the government.
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Ukraineâs crisis deepened tonight when the opposition abruptly broke off compromise talks over the tainted presidential election after pro-government MPs blocked a no-confidence motion seeking to topple the prime minister.
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Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma says progress has been made toward ending his country's presidential crisis.
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Viktor Yushchenko has emerged from the country's two-week election crisis as a winner &#151; a presidential contender able to compromise with his opponents and get a solution without violence.
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Ukraine's outgoing leader made key concessions on Tuesday to opponents who have staged mass protests against a rigged presidential poll, but failed to agree exactly how to end the ex-Soviet state's political turmoil.
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A divided Ukraine faced the increasing prospect of a new presidential poll as parliament voted to oust the ruling government and European mediators huddled to ease a political crisis that showed few signs of abating.
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International mediators will step up efforts Wednesday to resolve Ukraine's 10-day-old crisis over a disputed presidential election after the collapse of talks between pro-Western and pro-Russian factions.
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Ukraine&#39;s President Viktor Yushchenko on Sunday announced a deal with Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych to hold early parliamentary elections, declaring a political crisis in Ukraine &quot;finished.&quot;
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The two sides in Ukraine&#39;s bitter election crisis failed to reach agreement last night, amid growing signs that the country, already paralysed by the week-long protest, was slipping into chaos.
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&#39;KIEV President Leonid Kuchma and Ukraine&#39;s Parliament on Wednesday adopted an overhaul of the country&#39;s political system, defusing a bitter political crisis that erupted after last month&#39;s discredited vote for Kuchma&#39;s successor.
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KIEV, Ukraine - Ukraine approached a political stalemate yesterday, as preliminary vote counts of the presidential runoff election indicated that Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych had won the race.
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KYIV, Ukraine  - A tentative deal to ease Ukraine's political crisis foundered Tuesday over the opposition's refusal to endorse constitutional changes and outgoing President Leonid Kuchma's rejection of the call to fire his prime minister.