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Russia heads to Euro 2012

May 18, 2012 Ilya Zubko
From June 8-July 1, the European Football Championship will take place in Poland and Ukraine. It is the first time that such a major tournament has been held in Eastern Europe

Tracking down oil smugglers

February 13, 2012 Vitaly Pozdnyakov, Russky Reporter
On the Russian border with Ukraine, the lack of jobs has made smuggling diesel fuel an attractive way to make money. Combating the illegal pipelines is a full-time job for the region’s border guards

Red Line: Yulia Tymoshenko, Iranian plot and Helle Thorning-Schmidt

October 21, 2011 Sergei Strokan, Dmitry Polikarpov, Ekaterina Kudashkina, Voice of Russia
Each week, Voice of Russia hosts Red Line, a discussion about global events as seen from Moscow. In this edition: Yulia Tymoshenko heads to prison, the Iranians plot an assassination on U.S. soil and Denmark gets a new prime minister

Could a verdict cause a gas war?

October 14, 2011 Vladimir Babkin
Many believe that Yulia Tymoshenko's prosecution was politically motivated, but the reasons may be economic rather than personal

Tymoshenko sentenced to seven years behind bars

October 12, 2011 Stefano Grazioli
A harsh sentence is handed down for the former Ukrainian prime minister, raising questions about the future of Ukraine's relations with both Russia and the EU

Ukraine's monopoly on European gas exports broken

September 9, 2011 Ben Aris
Imagine this: The cash-strapped Ukrainian government realizes that it can't afford to buy oil at $100 a barrel so it starts lobbying Saudi Arabia to sell oil to Ukraine at $80 per barrel instead

Red Line: U.S. Debt, Riots in London and Yulia Tymoshenko

August 16, 2011 Sergei Strokan, Mira Salganik, Ekaterina Kudashkina, Voice of Russia
Each week, Voice of Russia hosts Red Line, a discussion about the events of the week, as seen from Moscow. This week, the U.S. downgrade, riots in the UK and Yulia Tymoshenko

Russia backs old enemy in Ukraine

August 8, 2011 Alexander Bratersky, The Moscow Times
Ukrainian Orange Revolution icon Yulia Tymoshenko has long been loathed by Moscow, but now that she is behind bars, the Russian government has joined the chorus of her supporters

Red Line: Nagorno-Karabakh, Greek debt crisis and Yulia Tymoshenko

July 4, 2011 Sergei Strokan, Mira Salganik, Ekaterina Kudashkina, Voice of Russia
Each week, Voice of Russia hosts Red Line, a discussion about the events of the week, as seen from Moscow. This week, negotiations over Nagorno-Karabakh, austerity measures in Greece and Yulia Tymoshenko.

The invisible menace goes to ground

April 19, 2011 Veronika Dorman
A quarter of a century after the world’s worst nuclear accident, life goes on around Ukraine’s Chernobyl site

Ukraine rewinds the clock

October 1, 2010 James Marson, bne
Ukraine’s top court scrapped changes to the constitution made in 2004 which reduced the powers of the president to create a parliamentary-presidential system.

No Russian in the land of Potemkin

August 4, 2010 Dmitry Babich, special to Russia Now
Russian-speakers continue to struggle with Ukraine's language laws, despite the election of Viktor Yanukovich

Belarus backs down on gas payments

June 22, 2010 bne
Russia's latest "Gas War" indicates a change in both foreign and economic policy.

Yanukovich's Ukraine

June 10, 2010 Sergei Markedonov
While Ukraine has grown closer to Russia under Viktor Yanukovich, his first 100 days in office have shown that Ukraine remains its own country.

A new lease on Ukraine

May 27, 2010 Yevgeny Kiselyov, The Moscow Times
Passions are raging in Kiev over the agreement President Dmitry Medvedev signed with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on April 21 in Kharkiv that provides a significant discount on the price of Russian gas in exchange for extending the lease for

Yanukovych deflates Putin offer of gas merger

May 6, 2010 bne
In recent statements, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych deflated Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's "impromptu" trial balloon to merge Russia's gas monopoly Gazprom and its Ukrainian counterpart Naftogaz while at the same time polishing his

Russia's Ukraine gas bombshell draws outcry

May 3, 2010 RFE/RL
Gazprom's offer to merge with Ukraine's Naftogaz is just the latest dramatic event in the warming of Russian-Ukrainian relations since the election of Viktor Yanukovich

For Yanukovych, a fleet-footed dash to repair Russia divide

April 30, 2010 Gregory Feifer, RFE/RL
Mention the cities Yalta or Potsdam and many will think of the conferences held there by the Allies to establish new spheres of influence in Europe at the end of World War II. For many Ukrainians, another name — Kharkiv — has now become a

The real loser in Ukraine

February 24, 2010 Dmitry Babich, political analyst
So who was the loser in the presidential elections in Ukraine? On the surface, it is the prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, who finished at least 3pс behind the opposition leader Viktor Yanukovich

Ukraine: Democracy without democrats?

February 8, 2010 Dmitry Babich, Special to Russia Now
No matter which candidate pulls out a victory in the presidential elections, the country will face plenty of challenges.
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