Yanukovych Has a Reputation for Toughness
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Viktor Yanukovych, the Kremlin-backed candidate in Ukraine's presidential elections, rose to prominence as governor of the eastern Donetsk coal-mining and industrial region before President Leonid Kuchma ...
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Last month, it was the incumbent prime minister, Viktor Yanukovych, who claimed victory in Ukraineâs presidential election, and the upstart challenger, Viktor Yushchenko, who refused to accept the result.
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The election headquarters of presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych has registered about 500 violations during the country's presidential elections, Stepan Havrysh, Yanukovych's representative at the Central ...
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Yanukovych is facing a rerun of a presidential election he was officially declared to have won.
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Ruling Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych led the presidential race in Ukraine on Monday, but a run-off against his liberal challenger appeared certain.
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The main threat for presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko comes from the business people, who are members of his team, Taras Chornovil, head of the electoral team of Viktor Yanukovich, said here on Wednesday ...
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The new Ukrainian president woos critics at home by stressing that his father was an Auschwitz victim, writes Malcolm Haslett.
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In the power struggle surrounding the Ukrainian presidency, the camp of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich has been increasingly pushed onto the defensive.
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Venezuela's leader says his plans to sign big arms deals in Russia does not make him an aggressor.
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Many opponents of Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko call him 'a prot g of the West,' while supporters compare him with former Czech president Vaclav Havel.
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KIEV, November 30 (Itar-Tass) - Viktor Yanukovich, if recognised the Ukrainian president, is ready to conduct a political reform and offer the post of prime minister to opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko.
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As leader of the political opposition, Garry Kasparov brings the energy and aggression that characterized his chess game to his political career.
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THE resilience of this Australian team is remarkable. To a man, there is a steeliness of resolve and a pride that overwhelms, even intimidates, an opponent.
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Mahmoud Abbas is studious, gracious, pragmatic and opposed to terrorism. He is also tough enough to have been Yasir Arafat's No. 2 for many years in the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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With a demeanor described as professorial and the quiet hobbies of landscape painting and antique collecting, Viktor Yushchenko seems an unlikely candidate to have provoked a peaceful revolution.
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Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, supported by outgoing President Leonid Kuchma, said he came "to tell the truth" about what he called "old authorities and bankrupt politicians" who "are struggling for power ...
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KYIV, Ukraine  - For many of Ukraine's 100,000 Jews, Sunday's presidential revote poses a difficult choice: a Western-leaning opposition leader with past links to people with anti-Semitic views or a prime minister who favours heavy-handed Soviet-style leadership but appears to offer more stability.