With 226 votes required, 234 deputies supported the cancellation of the voting by hands for the said draft laws.

An informed source within the Defense Ministry disclosed this to Ukrainian News.

The 2009-2010 presidential campaign will be tough and dirty, Ukrainian experts warn. Presidential candidates will make their cases using billboards, Internet and mass media, our own correspondent in Kyiv reports in the wake of a conference of experts.

Verkhovna Rada speaker has accused top politicians of trying to deliberately ruin Ukraine, UNIAN reports.

Head of the Congress of Ukrainian Intelligentsia in the Lviv Oblast Stepan Pavliuk has made a statement on behalf of the Western Ukrainian intelligentsia calling on politicians in the democratic camp to give up their president bids in favor of