The presidium of the parliament of Crimea, UkraineÕs only autonomous entity, announced yesterday that it reserves the right to lift its moratorium on calling a... MORE

In Moscow yesterday, Duma chairman Gennady Seleznev cited President Boris Yeltsin as confirming his intention to pay an official visit to Ukraine for signing a... MORE

Russian Communist leader and presidential candidate Gennady Zyuganov, Duma chairman Gennady Seleznev, and other Russian Communist parliamentarians conferred in Kiev February 26 and 27 with... MORE

Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma plans to ask his U.S. counterpart Bill Clinton for assistance in obtaining Russian compensation for tactical nuclear weapons removed to Russia... MORE

At a brief meeting in Helsinki yesterday with Leonid Kuchma, U.S. secretary of state Warren Christopher urged the Ukrainian president to "stay the course" of... MORE

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry and State Security Service have both disavowed charges of espionage against three Chinese citizens who were expelled last week from Ukraine.... MORE

Yevhen Dovzhok, chairman of the Ukrainian State Committee on the Oil and Gas Industry, heads a delegation to Moscow this week to reopen stalled talks... MORE

Close to one million coal miners throughout the Russian Federation and Ukraine walked off their jobs yesterday, the first day of an indefinite strike to... MORE

Russian foreign minister Yevgeny Primakov arrived in Minsk yesterday at the start of two days of scheduled talks in the Belarusian and Ukrainian capitals. In... MORE

Ukrainian economic overtures to Iran, mainly in search of a future oil supplier, have begun to pay off in other ways: the Motor-Sich plant in... MORE