Ukraine started 2008 with strong economic growth... Surging by an impressive 26.2% yoy in March 2008, inflation became the priority of Ukraine`s macroeconomic policy... Import growth is expected...

Shakhtar Donetsk won their sixth Ukraine Cup, beating reigning champions Dynamo Kyiv 2-0 in the final on Wednesday. Yushchenko presented the Cup to the winners of the finals...

A feature story lists the top ten hellish places on Earth. Readers will get to know even what type of hell they will experience should they visit. In other words, if you`re looking to travel, avoid these places if you can...

Previously, the Sahara had been seen as the main source of dust carried over long distances to Central Europe. The paper published by the research team from Leipzig, Berlin and Dresden is the first...

After failing in his bid to get elected president of the U.S., Rudy Giuliani is now trying to get his newest client, a heavyweight boxing champion, elected mayor of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine...

Russian voters already know what to expect from the Putin-Medvedev double act. As Prime Minister Mr Putin will retain day-to-day control of the economy, and he has promised more of the tight state control of key industries...

People in traditional embroidered shirts from all regions of Ukraine, folk songs, national dishes -  one could see all these at the Vyshyvanka Parade in Kyiv (photos)...

Soaring food prices and starving children provide a stirring backdrop to Europe’s debate on its biofuels targets, but the big businesses could influence...

When it comes to a new enlargement round in eastern Europe, the EU can`t go forward and can`t go back. Krzysztof Bobinski looks at the unpalatable choices that now confront Brussels...

Relations between Russia and Ukraine, bedeviled by disputes over natural gas supplies and NATO expansion, have lately been roiled by one of the great tragedies of Soviet history: the famine of 1932-33, which left millions dead from starvation...

Twenty-two years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, work is under way on a larger, stronger shelter to cover the ruins of the exploded Soviet power plant and prevent further contamination...

I still cannot understand, why they always invite “stars” from Russia to judge Ukrainian girls? Why the contest was presented in two languages? Did they choose not only Miss Ukraine, but also somebody else?.. A report from the beauty contest with photos