Ukraine tensions rise as president claims command of troops
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KIEV -- Ukraine's president said he took command of 32,000 Interior Ministry troops yesterday, and a ministry official rejected the order -- deepening the country's political crisis as police guarded the office of the fired prosecutor general.
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A tense standoff gripped Ukraine after its pro-Russia prime minister won the presidential runoff, with the opposition mounting massive protests to contest results of a vote that Washington and Europe said was rigged by the state.
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The political tension in the Ukraine over the country&#39;s recent presidential elections will have many implications, a local professor said.
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Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, fresh  from securing a re-run of Ukraine's disputed election,on  Saturday tore up a deal to reduce the president's powers and  told his supporters to keep up pressure on the streets.
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Crisis talks between Ukraine&#39;s feuding president and prime minister started Saturday, Laryssa Mudrak, a spokeswoman for the presidency told journalists.
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Ukraine's president-elect promised on  Monday to make withdrawing his country's troops from Iraq a  priority as soon as he takes office, after eight of its  soldiers were killed in an explosion.
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Ukraine faced yet more polemics after President Leonid Kuchma proposed holding quick new presidential elections and handing interim power to a parliament where the opposition has a strong voice as a way out of the political crisis.
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Ukraine's outgoing president has ordered officials to draw up plans to withdraw the country's 1,600 troops home from Iraq in the first half of 2005 after eight of its soldiers were killed in a blast.
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The crisis over Ukraine's disputed presidential election intensified Sunday, as a key eastern province called a referendum on autonomy and the opposition demanded the current president fire his prime minister, the official winner of last week's vote that has bitterly divided this former Soviet republic.
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The liberal challenger in a closely fought presidential election in Ukraine raised the stakes on Friday, threatening to bring his supporters onto the streets if the authorities tried to deny him victory by ...
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko ordered extra troops to the capital on Saturday as he haggled with his main rival over a date for parliamentary elections amid a protracted political crisis.
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The liberal challenger in a closely fought presidential election in Ukraine raised the stakes on Friday, threatening to bring his supporters onto the streets if the authorities tried to deny him victory by cheating.
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Ukraine's president-elect promised on Monday to make withdrawing his country's troops from Iraq a priority as soon as he takes office, after eight of its soldiers were killed in an explosion.
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Tensions and risk flared anew in Ukraine on Tuesday after Viktor A. Yushchenko, the opposition leader and presumptive president-elect, called for his supporters to renew
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KYIV, Ukraine  - The Ukrainian parliament appealed Friday to President Leonid Kuchma to withdraw the country's 1,600 soldiers from the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, a largely symbolic move intended to pressure Kuchma in the midst of the country's spiralling political crisis.
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Ukraine's president and PM are to meet again to try to end a crisis over a bid to seize control of 40,000 troops.
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President Viktor A. Yushchenko of Ukraine ordered Interior Ministry troops to the capital, Kiev, only hours before he met with his rival to resolve the countryâs escalating political crisis.