Ukraine fails to agree election reforms
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continue,&quot; said Socialist leader Oleksander Moroz. &quot;(Yushchenko&#39;s) Our Ukraine bloc is trying to find a way. east, the heartland of his Moscow-backed rival for the presidency, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich.
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Ukraine&#39;s parliament has declared the disputed presidential election invalid in a symbolic vote after a week of growing street protests and allegations of vote fraud.
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KIEV  - Ukraine&#39;s outgoing President Leonid Kuchma remained at loggerheads with the opposition after six-hour talks with European mediators over legislative changes ahead of a new presidential runoff vote ended in failure.
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KIEV -- Ukraine's two rivals for power failed in nearly three hours of talks yesterday to resolve the political stalemate over who will lead the bitterly divided nation, and opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko said at a huge rally that he was insisting on a new election.
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Ukraine's government and opposition are said to agree on changes to the election law and the constitution.
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Ukraine's political rivals agreed at European-brokered talks Tuesday on legislation to ensure a fair vote in the Dec. 26 presidential rematch but failed to agree on constitutional amendments trimming presidential powers.
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KIEV, Ukraine  - Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich  on Monday refused to accept the outcome of the re-run of  Ukraine's presidential election in which his rival holds a big  lead and said he would challenge the result in the Supreme  Court.
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Ukraine's Supreme Court rejects an appeal by Viktor Yanukovych against the re-run presidential poll.
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The two sides in Ukraine&#39;s bitter election crisis failed to reach agreement last night, amid growing signs that the country, already paralysed by the week-long protest, was slipping into chaos.
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On the eve of Ukraine&#39;s hotly-contested presidential vote, the country&#39;s highest court Saturday threw out some of the election law changes aimed at battling fraud, a possible setback for opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko.
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KIEV -- Lawmakers fought over and failed to pass legal reforms aimed at ensuring a fair rematch of Ukraine's fraudulent presidential runoff, accusing each other yesterday of acting in bad faith as several thousand orange-clad protesters besieged parliament and chanted, &quot;Parasites! Parasites!&quot;
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KIEV -- Ukraine's parliament declared the country's disputed presidential vote invalid yesterday, increasing the political and legal pressure for new elections that were increasingly seen as acceptable to supporters of the declared winner, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych.
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International election observers say the first round of voting in Ukraine&#39;s presidential election failed to meet a number of democratic standards, but the observers stopped short of calling for the vote to be invalidated.
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KIEV -- Supporters of opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko lost a round in Parliament yesterday, when pro-government legislators helped block legal changes intended to prevent fraud in the Dec. 26 repeat of the country's presidential runoff.
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Ukraine's Supreme Court on Thursday 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 ...
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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 - An agreement was reached at Wednesdayâs crisis talks in Ukraine to change the countryâs election laws and implement political reforms, outgoing Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma said after the meeting.