Eastern Ukraine says it may go its own way
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DONETSK, UKRAINE - The continuing political crisis in Ukraine has divided the country along linguistic lines. In Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, a Russian-speaking area that is home to Viktor Yanukovych, the
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The Russian military industrial complex is anticipating some hard times ahead. Kiev's course towards joining NATO, taking into account the election of President Viktor Yushchenko, will result in the curtailment ...
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The name Ukraine literally means "at the edge," and the world often treated it just that way &#151; as a distant, vaguely noticed expanse overshadowed by Russia to the east and the dynamically developing former communist nations to its west.
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President Viktor Yushchenko told noisy protesters and wary officials in eastern Ukraine on Thursday that he felt no qualms about traveling to a region hostile to his presidency, saying he wants prosperity for all of the country.
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Facing a relentless tide of opposition protests, embattled President Leonid Kuchma said Monday that a new election might be the only way out of a spiraling crisis that threatens to split this former Soviet republic into a pro-Russian east and a pro-Western rest of Ukraine.
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One unfortunate outcome of Ukraine&#39;s disputed presidential election is that it has brought into stark relief an east-west divide within that large country.
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The crisis in Ukraine is seen primarily as a political split between east and west.
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Ukraine looked with hope to the future on Saturday at the onset of the new year after Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich resigned and all but admitted losing last weekend's historic presidential rerun vote.
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Ukraine edged a little closer toward a break-up Sunday as a powerful eastern region backing the Moscow-backed prime minister in a disputed election for president set a December referendum on autonomy.
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KIEV -- The political crisis over Ukraine's disputed presidential election threatened yesterday to tear the nation apart as leaders of eastern provinces pressed demands bordering on separatism and opposition supporters pledged to block the outgoing president's movements if he didn't meet their demands.
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Viktor Yushchenko, apparent victor in Ukraine&#39;s presidential poll, risks stiff resistance if he neglects Russian-speaking eastern areas that largely opposed him, a top official in his rival&#39;s camp said.
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It may have taken a peaceful revolution to make it happen, but Ukraine has burst onto Europe - s--and the world - s--radar screen.
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Ukraine's defeated presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych may become opposition leader after the winner Viktor Yuschenko takes over the reins.
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A meeting in the east of the country - power base of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych - is to discuss autonomy. Mr Yanukovych&#39;s rival for the presidency, opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, says this threatens the future of Ukraine.
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The European Union sees two ways for settling Ukraine - legal and political. The first is when the case is taken to the court and a constitutional mechanism is set to work.
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President Vladimir Putin appears unlikely to be confronted by a Ukrainian-style revolution in Russia as a whole anytime soon, but he may face something almost as troubling -- the possibility of "an amber ...
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The opposition may control Kiev. But as a coal miner put it, "Kiev is not Ukraine."