The 25-year-old chemistry student, who has not been named by police, was working at his parents’ home in Konotop when relatives heard a “loud pop”....

Twenty years ago, when the Iron Curtain came down, the world gagged in horror as it witnessed firsthand the ravages inflicted on nature by the Soviet industrial...

It is not immediately clear why Vasily V. Humenyuk should be a candidate for president of Ukraine. A former customs official from the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk,...

Ukraine is in the midst of what some might call swine-flu hysteria. The country is in virtual lockdown mode, with the government closing schools, universities and movie...

Fun in Artek Created in the Crimea of the Soviet era as a place for the best-of-the best pupils under 16 year old, a scout (pioneers’) camp Artek was a show-window...

It is really good making friends from around a glob! Recently, I had met the Canadians having told a story of a dog-mutant - human baby-looklike born days ago in the...

I am a bit surprised, in a world media during last weeks nothing appeared of the Verhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) decision to investigate a reliable information...

What could turn an enemy into a trade partner respectful recently? Perhaps, rocky relations with Col. M. Khaddafi is a classic example of smoothing Western stand on...

It seems there’s some truth to the saying “There is no sex in the Soviet Union.” When Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat: Cultural Learnings of America...

Russia’s emergence as an economic and military superpower since the collapse of the Soviet Union has rattled many a feather in the western bloc, none more so than the...

A traditional frontier of Eastern resistance towards counter-traditional Western influence, the Ukraine exemplifies a perfect platitude of supposedly balanced on-moment...

At last, epopee with Faina, a ship hired to bring Russian ammunition in Kenya from Odessa Port of the Ukraine, captured by Somali pirates in open sea, was finished as a...

In a resolution that commemorates the 75th anniversary of the tragic events, EU parliamentarians said the famine was “planned by Stalin’s regime in order to...

In a major shift in Russian intentions, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, in an exclusive interview to the BBC, has suggested that his country is prepared to leave...

The Russian half can now either be incorporated directly into Russia, or else become the sort of nominally independent state that might as well be. And the other half...

In a potentially significant swing of expert Western opinion, a leading British think tank has urged that Nato membership should not be granted to Georgia or Ukraine.

English Premiership giants Arsenal do not enjoy trips to former Soviet states and that was very much evident on Wednesday night too when the Gunners salvaged a last...

A demolition man stripping a fireplace from the former home of “The Lord of the Rings” author J.R.R. Tolkien stumbled across a postcard to the writer dated...

Grigori Garaschenko remembers seeing his classmates starve slowly to death in a famine that killed millions of people in Ukraine.