Ukraine president takes control of interior troops
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President Viktor Yushchenko said on Friday he was taking control of interior ministry troops loyal to Ukraine's prime minister, a direct challenge to the rival he has confronted for months.
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Ukraine's Interior Ministry, a mammoth organization employing some 500,000 people, will now be headed not only by its first civilian minister, but also by a person who has thus far not had any significant ...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin says he will work with whoever is elected by the people of Ukraine to lead the country. Only days after mocking a call for a new presidential
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Ukraine's president claims command of 40,000 interior ministry troops, as a political crisis deepens.
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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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Liberal Viktor Yushchenko will be sworn in  as Ukraine's new president Sunday, ending weeks of turmoil and  setting the stage for the ex-Soviet state to edge closer to  Europe while upholding traditional links with Russia.
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Ukraine's departing President Leonid Kuchma outlined a plan for resolving his country's leadership crisis that would see a quick new presidential election and hand interim power to a parliament where the opposition has a strong voice.
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Ukraine's rival leaders met to discuss the date of a parliamentary election on Saturday after President Viktor Yushchenko ordered troops from outside the capital to bolster security in Kiev.
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The Kremlin's pervasive control over the legislative branch and regional bodies would be strengthened under the plan.
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Using armored cars and earth movers, U.N. peacekeepers and Haitian police moved into an area early Sunday controlled by militants loyal to ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, protecting workers removing burned out cars used as road blocks.
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Ukrainian election officials declared Viktor Yushchenko the official winner of a rerun presidential vote, paving the way for the "orange revolution" hero to be inaugurated as the third president of an independent Ukraine.
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KYIV, Ukraine  - The winner of Ukraine's presidential election ordered his supporters Friday to raze the tent camp in Kyiv that had become a dramatic symbol of his victory over a Kremlin-backed opponent, saying conditions had become unsanitary.
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Viktor Yushchenko was set to be sworn in as president of Ukraine Sunday, capping months of turmoil in the key ex-Soviet nation which he now intends to set on a firm pro-Western course.
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Ukraine looks set to turn its gaze westward under new President-elect Viktor Yushchenko.
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President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko has disclosed the principles of work of the new government in the chamber of the Verkhovna Rada today.
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Viktor Yushchenko will be sworn in Sunday as president of Ukraine, completing his "Orange Revolution" after weeks of political turmoil in which he defeated the Kremlin-backed candidate at the polls and survived a mysterious poisoning plot.
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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.