Ukrainian Official Suspends Privatization
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President Leonid Kuchma suspended the privatization of communications giant Ukrtelekom and the country's second-largest state-owned ammonia producer, officials said Friday.
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The loser of Ukraine's presidential  election unveiled yet another tactic on Wednesday to stall his  opponent's inauguration by delaying an appeal with the Supreme  Court.
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President Viktor Yushchenko on Friday claimed command of Ukraine's Interior Ministry troops as the country's political tensions soared.
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Ukraine's Supreme Court lifts a ban on publication of the presidential election results.
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KIEV -- Ukraine's Supreme Court yesterday blocked the inauguration of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, the declared winner of Sunday's presidential election, agreeing to hear arguments that the vote was tainted by fraud and shifting some momentum to supporters of opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko.
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After weeks of bitter wrangling Ukraine's Supreme Court lifts a ban on publishing the presidential poll results.
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The head of Russia's natural resources ministry announced that foreign companies will be barred from bidding in large mineral deposit auctions in 2005, a ministry spokesman said.
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Ukraine's government canceled a meeting on Wednesday after president-elect Viktor Yushchenko's supporters massed outside the building to keep out his beaten opponent, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich.
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KYIV, Ukraine  - Ukraine's new prime minister ordered the government Saturday to begin the process of returning Ukraine's largest steel mill to state control with the aim of putting the mill back up for auction.
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Poland's interior minister said on Saturday he has suspended an agreement between a Polish and a Belarusian police academy because of recent police violence against protesters in Belarus.
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Ukraine's Parliament has voted to sack the Government of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich to help end a 10-day political crisis sparked by allegations of fraud in the presidential ballot.
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President Viktor Yushchenko said Friday he was taking command of Ukraine's Interior Ministry troops, but a ministry spokesman rejected the order in a move of defiance that dramatically escalated the country's political turmoil.Tensions between Yushchenko and his rival, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, have been building for weeks, and the president's order, reflecting doubt on the loyalty of servicemen under the ministry's command, appeared to suggest rising concern over possible clashes. Read more
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Ukraine&#39;s Central Election Commission has suspended vote counting from the 31 October presidential election. The opposition says that&#39;s because a complete count would reveal that its leader, Viktor Yushchenko
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Russia suspends vital water use permits for Royal Dutch Shell's Sakhalin-2 offshore oil and gas venture.
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KYIV, Ukraine  - Noisy, orange-clad opposition protesters on Wednesday blockaded Ukraine's government headquarters and prevented Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych from convening a cabinet session.
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A top aide to Israeli PM Ehud Olmert is suspended for six months as part of a growing corruption scandal.
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In a vivid sign of growing high-level dissension with government policies, Russia's economic development minister said that state-controlled companies are holding the country back and suggested that the government should privatize a giant oil producer it recently wrested from the Yukos company.