MOSCOW, Russia - Russia has released a suspected organized crime boss who is wanted by the United States for alleged fraud and racketeering, the Financial Times reported on Monday, citing his lawyer.Semion Mogilevich

LONDON, England -- From the mid-1980s, Hungarian-born investor and philanthropist George Soros pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into foundations in Eastern Europe dedicated to promoting the idea of the "open society" and challenging the region's Soviet-backed regimes. Here, writing

Ukraine's overall state (direct) and guaranteed debt climbed by 8.3%, or $2.2 billion, in June 2009 to $28.683 billion, the Ukrainian Finance Ministry reported on Monday.In the first half of 2009, the state debt in the U.S. dollar equivalent rose

The Russian Navy's commander on Sunday confirmed that the reasons for incidents in Sevastopol this month in which Ukrainian police stopped vehicles belonging to the Russian Black Sea Fleet, which has one of its bases in the Ukrainian city, had

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia arrived in Kyiv on Monday morning, ForUm informs, referring to Interfax-Ukraine press service. The delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church landed at about 9 a.m. at Boryspil airport. Metropolital of Kyiv and All

Russia's struggling economy and its leaders' pragmatism will push it to make deals on nuclear arms reduction as Washington seeks to reset ties with Moscow, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said. Biden made the remarks in an interview with the

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All-Russia has called for spiritual unity to be maintained between Orthodox believers. "While living in different states, let's preserve the spiritual unity commended by Prince Volodymyr. In this unity is our strength," Patriarch Kirill said

Russia wants its image abroad to be that of a strong state that defends its interests but maintains good relations with its partners, the president told a TV channel on Sunday, Ria Novosti reported. Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has returned a bill on the transfer of privately owned land for social needs to the parliament with his recommendations, according to Kyiv Post. According to the presidential press service report on Friday, Yushchenko said the

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko intends to veto amendments adopted by the VRU to the law on presidential elections, which reduce the period of presidential election campaign. Press secretary of the President Iryna Vannykova said that today. "The President considers

The Education and Science Ministry has said that graduates are most interested in the economic professions in 2009, Deputy Education and Science Minister Taras Finikov told the Ukrainian News agency. Finikov said that most popular professions are also other international

Andriy Kozhemiakin, first deputy head of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc faction at the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine, says if President Viktor Yushchenko vetoes the amendments to the presidential election law, the BYuT faction will initiate an extraordinary session, and

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will consider July 28 the allocation for Ukraine of the third tranche of the IMF Stand-by Arrangement at SDR 2,125 (USD 3.31 under current rate), an IMF statement reads. On July

Yuschenko stated this in his congratulatory message on the Day of Christianization of Kievan Rus-Ukraine.

In western Ukraine, partly cloudy weather, light intermittent rain in at night places, dry weather in the daytime, and northwestern wind of 7-12 m/s are expected. Temperature will stand at +9...+14 C at night and at +19...+24 C in the

He gave his position in an interview with the Svoboda [Liberty] Radio on July 25.

The National Bank of Ukraine announced this in a statement, a text of which Ukrainian News obtained.

She didn't go into details of these documents but said that grain elevators will be used by agricultural service cooperatives and that the corresponding program will have been implemented by 2010.

Speaking about the deployment of the Black Sea fleet in Crimea and Sevastopol, he said that the position of the supreme commanders of Ukraine is unambiguous - the Black Sea fleet will stay in Crimea until 2017.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has said its ready to hold official meeting with the representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church to discuss the overcoming of current problems between the two churches.