UKRANIAN PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER ATTEND A WREATH LAYING CEREMONY IN KIEV
Ukraine's Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych smiles at a wreath laying ceremony for the monument of the first Ukrainian President Mykhailo Grushevsky in Kiev on August 23, 2006. On Thursday Ukraine will mark its 15th anniversary of independence. (UPI Photo/Sergey Starostenko)
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KIEV, Russia, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko does not see herself as a criminal and will not ask the president for a pardon, her lawyer says.
KIEV, Ukraine, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- The Polish foreign minister said Wednesday that the European Union was finding it difficult to work with Kiev because of the Yulia Tymoshenko case.
KIEV, Ukraine, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- The Ukrainian Parliament killed a bill Wednesday that would have decriminalized the country's law under which ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was convicted.
KIEV, Ukraine, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is trying to establish a dictatorship through constitutional reform, a jailed opposition leader said.
KIEV, Ukraine, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Ukraine aims to increase the production of its own natural resources by exploring alternative resources and expanding coal production, the president said.
KIEV, Ukraine, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Ukraine says Russian gas utility Gazprom is not asking it to barter away state assets as part of negotiations to reduce the price it pays for imports.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Western governments need to court the government in Kiev to counter the regional aspirations of the Kremlin, a U.S. policy center recommended.
KIEV, Ukraine, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Washington continues to advocate for the release of Yulia Tymoshenko, the U.S. secretary of state said in a letter to Ukraine's jailed opposition leader.
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- The government of the Czech Republic granted political asylum to Oleksandr Tymoshenko, husband of Ukraine's jailed former prime minister, an official said.
KIEV, Ukraine, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Lawyers for jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko said they planned another appeal after she was sent to a penal colony on corruption charges.
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