WASHINGTON — Countries around the world, including allies of the United States, have used laws on blasphemy and apostasy to suppress political opponents, the State Department said on Monday in an annual ... Read more
MOSCOW — In a possible sign that political tensions are easing in Ukraine, President Viktor F. Yanukovich pardoned the country’s second-most prominent political prisoner on Sunday, but his ... Read more
MOSCOW — A Ukrainian blogger and journalist captured by a Syrian rebel group some five months ago announced that she had escaped her captors on Monday but offered little detail, telling a Russian radio ... Read more
MOSCOW — The lead defender of Ukraine’s jailed former prime minister, Yulia V. Tymoshenko, was stripped of his seat in the Ukrainian Parliament on Wednesday by the country’s top administrative ... Read more
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's president said Friday he will consider pardoning an imprisoned ally of jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, in an apparent move to ease tensions with the West. Tymoshenko ... Read more
A passenger plane carrying soccer fans headed for a match skidded past the landing strip and overturned in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Wednesday, killing five people, officials said. The ... Read more
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A passenger plane carrying soccer fans headed for a match skidded past the landing strip and overturned in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Wednesday, killing four people, injuring ... Read more
MOSCOW — A Ukrainian court sentenced a former security official to life in prison on Tuesday for the death of Georgy Gongadze, a journalist whose mysterious death in 2002 provoked an international outcry ... Read more
LONDON — Royal Dutch Shell, the largest oil company in Europe, has signed a contract to drill for natural gas in Ukraine. The company’s chief executive, Peter Voser, and the Ukrainian ... Read more
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The top lawyer for jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko says he is under criminal investigation and fears imminent arrest. Serhiy Vlasenko told reporters Monday that he ... Read more