Nov 27, 15:22 The government of the Kharkiv Oblast will now suspend payments in the national budget
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The government of the Kharkiv Oblast will now control oblast police, suspend payments in the national budget and coordinate their actions with other oblasts which supported presidential candidate Viktor ...
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MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin's plan to end the election of governors by popular vote passed its final hurdle yesterday, when the Russian parliament's upper chamber approved the bill. The law -- part of a package that has been assailed by opposition parties and human rights monitors as an attempt by the Kremlin to strengthen its authority at the expense ...
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Russia&#39;s troubled Yukos oil company says it is being forced to slash production and expenditures because the government has frozen its assets.
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_ THE ISSUE: Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych's victory in the Nov. 21 presidential runoff has been challenged as fraudulent.
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Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma signed a decree dismissing the Cabinet of Ministers, which should fulfil its duties until the new government starts working, the presidential press service reported Wednesday ...
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&quot;Things are not peaceful and quiet here. As long as the current administration is in power then we can only expect that they may forge the results,&quot; says Viktor Yushchenko, the main opposition leader.
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Ukraine&#39;s Supreme Court has ruled to revoke the results of the November 21 runoff elections that have triggered off mass opposition demonstrations and critiques from abroad.
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Russia said today that it would suspend its obligations under a key cold war-era arms control treaty in response to U.S. plans to deploy a missile shield.
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Russia said on Saturday it would suspend  its participation in a key pact limiting military forces in  Europe in five months&#39; time unless a compromise was found on  updating the treaty.
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The Supreme Court of Ukraine has annulled the results of the second round of the disputed presidential election. The ruling was read out by Supreme Court presiding judge Anatoly Yarema, who said that a new second round vote must be held.
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Not  at all.  It was   given  by  the State at  their initiative. It has  now been withdrawn   at  their own initiative. I've nothing  to say  on   this matter.
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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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RIGA, Latvia (International Herald Tribune) - Latvia's government lost two ministers Friday in a widening row over the prime minister's decision to suspend the Baltic nation's top anti-corruption investigator. The dispute has left the government on the verge of collapse, but Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis said his four-party coalition would stay in office to work on the national budget.
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Russia&#39;s upper house of parliament has approved President Vladimir Putin&#39;s controversial plan to end direct elections to choose regional governors, and allow the Kremlin to appoint them instead.
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Parliament on Sunday finally approved the next year government budget, but the opposition urged President Georgi Parvanov to veto it because of guarantees it provides for a loan to build a new paediatric ...
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Organisation will temporarily close operations in St Petersburg and Yekaterinburg after 'pressure'
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President Vladimir Putin has dissolved the Russian government on the request of the prime minister, the Kremlin said Wednesday, a major political shakeup that comes less than three months before crucial parliamentary elections