The trial of former Ukrainian PM Yulia Tymoshenko, accused of tax evasion charges, is delayed after she refuses to attend for health reasons.
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Tymoshenko tax trial is delayed
An eighteen-year-old Ukrainian woman dies, weeks after a brutal sexual assault that prompted a campaign against political corruption.
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Ukraine rape scandal victim dies
MOSCOW–Russia’s main television channel reported Monday that authorities in Ukraine had foiled a plan to assassinate Vladimir V. Putin just after next Sunday’s presidential election. News footage showed two Chechen men, held in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, who reportedly confessed to the plot against Putin in early February after undergoing weeks of questioning. One of the men was shown kneeling on the floor, his face and hands bloodied. He is shown in another clip with one hand covered in bandages, his face blotchy with green antiseptic. Read full article > >
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Russian TV: Attempt to assassinate Vladimir Putin foiled with arrest of two Chechen men
Facing condemnation from the West following the jailing of Yulia V. Tymoshenko, the Ukrainian government could decriminalize the law under which the opposition leader was prosecuted.
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Tymoshenko to Be Freed Soon, Her Daughter Says
KIEV, Ukraine — The judge in the abuse-of-office trial of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko gave a strong indication she would be found guilty Tuesday, saying she used her power “for criminal ends”. Under Ukrainian court procedures, the judge reads a a lengthy summary of the case, with the verdict and possible sentence announced at the end. Read full article > >
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Judge in trial of Ukraine ex-PM says she damaged gas company, suggests guilty verdict
Former Ukrainian PM Yulia Tymoshenko denounces her trial over alleged abuse of office as a “political lynching”, in a fiery closing statement.
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Tymoshenko calls trial ‘lynching’
The Ukrainian government has opened the site of the world’s most deadly nuclear accident to tourists for the first time.
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VIDEO: Chernobyl opens as tourist destination
The Ukrainian government has opened the site of the world’s most deadly nuclear accident to tourists for the first time.
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VIDEO: Chernobyl opens as tourist destination
Col Gaddafi’s Ukrainian nurse applies for political asylum in Norway after fleeing there to escape media attention.
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Gaddafi nurse seeks Norway asylum
Col Gaddafi’s Ukrainian nurse applies for political asylum in Norway after fleeing there to escape media attention.
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Gaddafi nurse seeks Norway asylum
Just days before the 25th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster at Chernobyl in 1986, several thousand people who took part in the clean-up operation have held a demonstration in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.
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VIDEO: Chernobyl’s ‘liquidators’ protest
A Ukrainian nurse described by a US diplomat as a “voluptuous blonde” confidante of Libya’s Col Gaddafi returns to Kiev with other evacuees.
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Gaddafi nurse returns to Ukraine
Bombs exploded today at the Swiss and Chilean embassies in Rome, seriously injuring one person. A suspicious package was found at the Ukrainian Embassy.
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Embassies hit by blasts in Rome
Several Ukrainian opposition MPs are injured after a parliament brawl in which chairs were thrown.
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Ukraine MPs injured in punch-up
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is under investigation for allegedly misusing public funds, and has been told she cannot leave Kiev.
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Tymoshenko faces Ukraine inquiry
Russian TV: Attempt to assassinate Vladimir Putin foiled with arrest of two Chechen men
Monday, February 27th, 2012Judge in trial of Ukraine ex-PM says she damaged gas company, suggests guilty verdict
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