Russia and Ukraine

Simferopol, Nov. 5 - A man has been sentenced to three years of jail for trying to smuggle a 2,600-year-old pure-gold neck ring out of Ukrai...

KIEV, Ukraine -- Poor-quality food prepared at a Ukrainian summer camp has left 84 Russian children and staff at the vacation centre ill, he...

KIEV, Ukraine -- Yuriy Meshkov, a former Crimean president who recently made attempts to start a separatist movement in the autonomous repub...

YALTA, Ukraine -- Moscow and Kiev will soon sign an agreement regulating the upcoming overhaul of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, the Russian...

Members of Council of representatives of Crimean Tartars under the President of Ukraine, who are also members of Majlis refused to take pa...

KIEV, Ukraine -- Just weeks after losing his status of persona non-grata in Ukraine, the infamous and hard-charging Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhk...

SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine -- Russia proposed Ukraine to conduct joint Russian and Ukrainian naval drills more often, Russian Navy Commander Admir...

President Viktor Yanukovych held a working meeting with Prime Minister Mykola Azarov in Crimea today. At the meeting President Yanukovych a...

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has presented the Order of Liberty to Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Nazarbayev wa...

MOSCOW, Russia -- For the first time in five years, a Russian warship took part in a naval parade to mark Ukraine's Navy Day on Sunday,...

SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine — Glory, tragedy and an army of ghosts haunt this great naval base that commands the Crimea and surrounding Black Sea. ...

Regions Party MP Volodymyr Zubanov does not exclude the possibility that the prosecutor's office may appeal against Crimea's decisi...

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine -- New Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has dismissed the presidential envoy to the Crimea, the predominantly Russ...

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine -- The only school in Simferopol where all subjects are taught in Ukrainian is seeking to offer new classes to meet hig...

WASHINGTON, DC -- In August, the Georgian navy seized a Turkish tanker carrying fuel to Abkhazia, Georgia’s former province whose declaratio...

SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine -- Even before Russia’s large-scope military exercise Caucasus ‘09 many people had serious worries, expressed se...

KIEV, Ukraine -- There will be no Sea Breeze naval exercises with NATO forces in Ukraine's Crimea this summer, a source in the Ukrainian...