Since the 2004 Orange Revolution, Ukraine has become an island of freedom and tolerance in an ex-Soviet bloc... Journalists, political activists, artists, and business professionals have flocked here...

There is a war raging in this graceful old city of colorful cathedrals, lush parks and cobblestone byways. It`s a clanging, banging fight that threatens to slice up grassy gardens, overshadow the onion domes...

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

Ukraine`s inflation continues to spiral out of control, becoming Ukraine`s most urgent economic worry. Ukraine`s inflation rate hit 26.2% year-on-year in March, up from 21.9% in February and 19.4% in January, according to official statistics...

Morgan Williams, President of the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council, presents his views on economic challenges that Ukraine faces in 2008 and on the ways of responding to them. OPIC still closed...

NATO`s proposed expansion into the Balkans and eastwards into Ukraine and Georgia is causing tensions between the alliance and Russia and within NATO itself. What exactly is planned and is everything as it seems?

Some political forces in Ukraine say that the US is not fulfilling its obligations vis-a-vis Ukraine and that Washington is controlling Kyiv... Did the first US president`s visit to Ukraine meet the expectations of the Ukrainian side?... Interview with the Ukraine`s Ambassador to the US

Europeans are absolutely fascinated by the US presidential race... Obama could sharply alter America’s highly negative image as an enemy of the Muslim world. He is seen abroad as the candidate who can return America to a moderate role in world affairs...

Russia has branded as parasites the transit states that have benefited from transit fees and cheap energy and it is in the process of raising the gas prices they pay to European market levels...

Since the beginning of April, Germany has become a rather less popular country in Ukraine´s capital Kyiv and Western provinces. Patriotic Ukrainian elites are mostly right in their evaluation...

The churches survived the Nazis and Soviet rule. Can they outlast parishioners` "improvements"? Famous Ukrainian wooden churches as old as six centuries face ruin at the hands of the unlikeliest of enemies...

The south of Ukraine – there are only Russians… Ukraine merely received it with the decision of KPSS political bureau. Who may assert that we do not have any interest there?… (excerpt from the famous Putin`s Bucharest speech)

Serious pundits in Russia appear to regard the objections formulated by Germany and France as temporary obstacles and think that NATO remains bent on including Kyiv and Tbilisi... Without Ukraine, Moscow cannot restore its status...

Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko and his aides on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s government of mismanaging the economy and called for top-level resignations...

Performing bears are still common in Ukraine, Serbia and Russia... As cubs, they are held by their owners on hot iron plates. This made them lift their feet to avoid the pain and while this happened, music played... A park was created to rescue the bears...

The top ten of Big Ukrainians includes OUN leader Stepan Bandera, surgeoun Mykola Amosov, Prince Yaroslav the Wise... Leonid Kuchma has not entered even the first hundred... Lenin surprisingly occupies the 23rd position...

Ukraine grain exports may fall victim in the 2008/09 season to the government`s fight against the highest inflation rates in a decade, despite projections of a recovery in the harvest after last year`s severe drought...

Gazprom—the trading name of the gas division of Kremlin, Inc—should be able to invest in Europe only if it obeys the rules. The EU should treat Gazprom with the same toughness that it has shown towards Microsoft...

Ukrainians could save maybe hundreds millions of dollars by having one election tour, not two... Russians should look what Germans had done after the Second World war... You’d be surprised how few Americans travel outside the United States... Interview