Vitali Klitschko reclaimed the WBC belt and fulfilled a self-proclaimed dream to hold a heavyweight title at the same time as his brother, stopping Samuel Peter in eight rounds Saturday night.

Ukravtoprom association of auto producers of Ukraine has initiated public discussion of the problems faced by Ukraine’s automotive industry and development aspects of the Ukrainian auto market.

The Ukrainian national football team climbed seven positions in the ratings of the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) and now ranks 19th with 893 points.

Her plane was commandeered by President Victor Yushchenko, just as she was about to depart on Oct. 2 for Moscow, where she ended up cutting a momentous natural gas deal with Russia. She remained dogged by her ‘90s gas-trade ties with former Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, a convicted money launderer now serving a prison sentence in the United States.

Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko dissolved Parliament Wednesday and called a snap election, dashing hopes for the revival of a orange coalition and throwing this politically volatile ex-Soviet nation into further turmoil.

A methane explosion at a coal mine in eastern Ukraine on Saturday killed six people, the country's Emergencies Ministry said.

The first sign was put up in 1887 under Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, by the members of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Austro-Hungarian Empire. The second one was set up by the members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. The third one was put up in the first years of Ukraine’s independence after the Soviet Union had collapsed.

Inherited wealth is a part of the world’s financial reality, as bulging bank accounts and the advantages that wealth brings are passed from generation to generation. But in Ukraine, it is a relatively new phenomenon.

Somali pirates holding a Ukrainian ship carrying 33 tanks reiterated their demands for a $20 million ransom on Tuesday and denied three of their number had died in a shootout.

"We want $20 million ransom from the ship and we are 53 Somalis," said Sugule, the spokesman of the pirates onboard the Ukrainian ship, which is being shadowed by U.S. navy vessels.

U.S. President George W. Bush is seeking to boost Ukraine's beleaguered leader Viktor Yushchenko.

The pro-Western Ukrainian leader was at the White House Monday. The two leaders said they discussed Yushchenko's aspirations for NATO and EU membership.

As a heavily-armed U.S. freighter patrolled nearby and planes flew overhead, a Somali pirate told The Associated Press that his group was demanding a US$20million ransom to release a cargo ship loaded with Russian tanks.

Poland and Ukraine have won a reprieve from UEFA and will remain as Euro 2012 joint hosts - but with a warning to speed up their preparations.

In an interview in the Black Sea city of Sochi on Thursday, Putin said the U.S. had encouraged Georgia to attack the autonomous region of South Ossetia.

Putin said his defense officials had told him it was done to benefit a presidential candidate -- Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama are competing to succeed George W. Bush -- although he presented no evidence to back it up.

Polish Ambassador in Ukraine Jacek Kluczkoswki went for a two-day familiarization trip to Transcarpathian(Zakarpattia). In Uzhhorod the diplomat met Head of the Regional State Administration Oleh Havashi, who acquainted the guest with the state of cooperation with Polish regions.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2005 – Ukraine joined a regional European security organization today at a meeting being held here and hosted by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.

Foreign secretary David Miliband has said that Russia has a "responsibility" not to start a new Cold War after flying to neighbouring Ukraine.

President Dmitry Medvedev has declared that Russia formally recognises the independence of the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

A charitable account of the regional Red Cross organization was transferred over UAH 500 thousand, head of operative office of the regional administration, acting first deputy head of the Kirovohrad Regional State Administration Svitlana Nehoda said.

There may be no two people who value the potato more than Orysia and George Wozniak, proprietors of Taste of Ukraine restaurant, located downtown at Jasper Avenue and 122nd Street.