Ukraine's opposition leader vows to be PM
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Ukraine's fiery opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko said Tuesday she expects to become the country's next prime minister, given her stalwart support for Viktor Yushchenko, whose presidency is increasingly ...
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Yulia Tymoshenko, ardent advocate of Ukraine's "Orange Revolution", won parliament's backing on Tuesday to return as prime minister and vowed to clean up the country's finances and hold talks with Russia on the gas trade.
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KYIV, UKRAINE -- Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko pledged yesterday to prosecute crimes of the previous regime, including the beheading of an investigative reporter, if he wins the Dec. 26 presidential rerun.
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KIEV, Ukraine  - West-leaning opposition leader  Viktor Yushchenko took an unassailable lead Monday in Ukraine's  re-run presidential election, promising to end corruption and  reform the ex-Soviet state's damaged economy.
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Ukraine's pro-Russia Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich scrambled to save his faltering reputation by denying that he supported the use of force against pro-Western opposition demonstrators now poised to carry their leader to power.
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Ukraine's Viktor Yanukovich, humiliated in  the 2004 "Orange Revolution," was set to celebrate a political  comeback as prime minister on Thursday after his nemesis,  President Viktor Yushchenko, supported him.
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Ukraine's President Leonid Kuchma said Monday he would not meet demands from liberal challenger Viktor Yushchenko to dismiss his government or reform election laws until the opposition agreed to curb presidential powers.
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KIEV, Ukraine  - West-leaning opposition leader  Viktor Yushchenko looked certain Monday to become Ukraine's  next president, but his opponent Prime Minister Viktor  Yanukovich refused to concede defeat.
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KYIV, Ukraine  - Ukraine's pro-Russian prime minister showed no signs of giving in to pressure to step down following his defeat in the country's repeat presidential election.
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Ukraine will contest the disputed privatization of some 3,000 former state enterprises that were turned over "to private but dishonest hands," Ukraine's new prime minister said Wednesday.
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The opposition vows to keep up the pressure on PM Viktor Yanukovych after he survived a parliamentary no-confidence motion.
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Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko said Friday he would prosecute government officials and their supporters for crimes committed during the last decade should he win Ukraine's Dec.
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By Ron PopeskiKIEV - Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, back in office nearly two years after his "Orange Revolution" defeat, vowed on Tuesday to oversee faster reform, but Ukraine's main opposition leader ...
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KIEV -- Viktor Yushchenko, the opposition leader whose victory in Ukraine's presidential election was all but assured yesterday despite his opponent's threat to appeal the outcome, is expected to move quickly to bolster ties with the West while trying to ease tensions with Russia.
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Ukraine's former prime minister Viktor Yanukovich vowed to appeal the official results of a presidential rerun election that handed victory to his opponent Viktor Yushchenko.
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Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich said that his supporters would never recognize Viktor Yushchenko, the opposition candidate, as the president of Ukraine.
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The opposition says the country is ripe for a Ukraine-style revolution, but its leader warns of possible dangers.