Renewed bloodshed in Donetsk clouds hopes for Ukraine summitPlanned January 15th talks in doubt as Kiev seeks urgent financial aidSat Jan 10 2015 - 01:04
Conflict between Ukraine and Russia spreads to stage and screenWar, politics and propaganda affect TV, film, music and now ballet starsWed Jan 07 2015 - 01:00
No thaw in sight as Putin drives Russia towards new cold war over UkraineEconomic hardship likely to feed stronger bunker mentality in Russia’s leadershipWed Dec 31 2014 - 08:24
Baltic states eye Russia as they prepare for bigger EU rolesNew year sees Latvia take on EU presidency and Lithuania adopt the euroWed Dec 31 2014 - 01:00
Ukraine warns of martial law if fresh peace efforts failPetro Poroshenko to meet Russian, German and French leaders in bid to end ceasefireMon Dec 29 2014 - 19:09
Ukraine a ‘frozen conflict’, not a cold warTwenty-five years after the Berlin Wall fell and communist regimes collapsed across central Europe, Ukraine is being torn apart by a new East-West rivalrySat Dec 27 2014 - 01:00
Kiev Letter: Ukraine’s army of helpers fulfil fighters’ Christmas wishesVolunteers often quicker than the state to fund, buy, make and deliver kit to eastern front-lineTue Dec 23 2014 - 01:00
Rebels accuse Ukraine as peace talks postponedRussian-backed separatist rebels accuse Kiev of sabotaging the halting peace processSun Dec 21 2014 - 22:00
Hopes for Ukraine peace talks resumption as Russia softensEU and US see slight shift in Russian stance as Ukraine’s leader eyes Nato membershipThu Dec 18 2014 - 01:00
Chechens join Ukraine fight against Russian-backed separatistsKremlin opponents based in Ukraine are planning how they can to topple PutinTue Dec 16 2014 - 07:11
Ukraine, rebels and Russia eye peace talks as fighting wanesRussia restarts gas supplies to Ukraine and chides Germany over criticismWed Dec 10 2014 - 01:00
Putin vows that West will never destroy resurgent RussiaUkrainian leader says ceasefire with eastern rebels could start on December 9thThu Dec 04 2014 - 19:17
West and Russia step up diplomatic efforts over UkraineEU council president Donald Tusk pledges support for Ukraine’s new reformist cabinetWed Dec 03 2014 - 17:20
Russia queries Moldova’s EU path after tight electionPro-Russia party wins, but West-leaning parties best placed to form coalitionTue Dec 02 2014 - 07:14
Election pulls tense Moldova between EU and RussiaPro-Russian Patria party barred over funding ahead of Sunday’s voteFri Nov 28 2014 - 01:00
Ukraine’s new parliament convenes in blizzard of crisesGovernment needed quickly to face Russian-backed insurgency and dying economyThu Nov 27 2014 - 01:00
West backs Georgia as Russia stokes new annexation fearsMoscow’s far-reaching deal with Abkhazia comes months after Crimea seized from UkraineTue Nov 25 2014 - 18:20
Ukrainian upheaval: key events of the past yearFrom the first protest on Independence Square – aka Maidan – in November 2013 to Russia’s massing of troops this month on its border with UkraineSat Nov 22 2014 - 01:00
A year in UkraineTwelve months ago a revolution was sparked in Kiev and Ukraine’s identity was recast. On its anniversary it’s still not clear who started the uprising – or whySat Nov 22 2014 - 01:00
Joe Biden visits Kiev as pro-EU parties sign coalition dealUS and Nato denounce Russia as Ukraine marks uprising anniversaryFri Nov 21 2014 - 20:25
Spirit of 1989 inspires voters and protesters in central EuropeBig rallies in Hungary and Czech Republic bemoan leaders’ soft stance on RussiaWed Nov 19 2014 - 01:00
Romanians choose change in stunning election upsetLutheran, ethnic-German outsider beats PM Ponta with pledge to cleanse a corrupt systemTue Nov 18 2014 - 01:00
Putin leaves G20 early as workers start removing MH17 debrisRussian president skips leaders’ lunch after sharp criticism over UkraineMon Nov 17 2014 - 09:04
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania bristle as Russia rattles its sabreNato sees sharp rise in warplanes and ships approaching Baltic states’ territorySat Nov 15 2014 - 01:00
Ukraine braced for major attack by Russia and eastern rebelsRussian ‘occupiers’ shooting at Ukrainian positions, says Kiev spokesmanFri Nov 14 2014 - 01:00
Ukraine shelling continues as top rebels visit MoscowSecurity study warns of potentially ‘catastrophic’ Nato-Russia stand-offTue Nov 11 2014 - 12:18
Donetsk theatre dances to its own tune amid war drumsOpera and ballet forge on despite death of a director, destruction of sets and no paySat Nov 08 2014 - 01:00
Germany worried by claims Russia is aiding Ukraine’s rebelsKiev says up to 200 militants killed at airportSat Nov 08 2014 - 01:00
Ukraine ceasefire deal in tatters as fighting intensifiesKiev tightens security at ‘border’ with separatist-held areasFri Nov 07 2014 - 01:00
Ukraine tensions rise as Kiev stops funding rebel areasTwo teenagers killed as both sides accuse each other of wrecking ceasefire dealWed Nov 05 2014 - 23:15
Ukraine readies political and security response to rebel voteEU and Nato issue warnings as Russian-backed militants inaugurate new leadersWed Nov 05 2014 - 13:48
Russia key player as Ukraine rebels look to the futureLocal warlords not controlled by separatist leaders in Donetsk and LuhanskTue Nov 04 2014 - 01:00
Rebels prepare for election as Kiev inks gas deal with RussiaEU, Germany and France condemn Ukraine separatists’ Russian-backed voteSat Nov 01 2014 - 01:00
Donetsk miners dream of peace amid din of airport battleShells and bullets rain down on Oktyabrskaya coal mine in UkraineFri Oct 31 2014 - 01:00
In bomb shelters, homeless of Donetsk prepare for cruel winterLittle help is being given, by rebels or by Kiev, to those driven from homesThu Oct 30 2014 - 01:00
Moscow support for illegal east Ukraine polls denouncedSeparatists in Donetsk and Luhansk to hold elections in ‘people’s republics’Wed Oct 29 2014 - 10:06
West hails Ukraine vote as pro-EU coalition takes shapeRussia bemoans ‘violations’ and fears ‘chauvinist forces’ will fuel more bloodshedMon Oct 27 2014 - 19:52
Russia urges new Ukraine leaders to enter talks with rebelsMain pro-western parties expected to launch coalition talks after dominating electionMon Oct 27 2014 - 08:52
President’s party leads as Ukraine elects pro-EU parliamentDespite anti-Russian shift, party of ex-Yanukovich allies is set to win seatsSun Oct 26 2014 - 19:57
Ukraine city near conflict zone engulfed by cloud of suspicion about oligarchsAs people prepare for an election, Ihor Kolomoisky is the focus of allegationsSat Oct 25 2014 - 01:00
Ukraine: elections won’t end the ‘new cold war’The country’s elections take place this weekend. With Crimea, annexed by Russia in March, excluded from the vote, the balance of power is expected to shift. But nobody expects it to end tensionsSat Oct 25 2014 - 01:00
Yulia Tymoshenko in fight for political survival in UkraineFatherland party in battle to take 5% of votes needed to enter parliament, polls showThu Oct 23 2014 - 13:23
Old guard tries to hold back tide as Ukraine moves onRevolution, war and the tilt to the west have left Yanukovich’s former allies reelingThu Oct 23 2014 - 01:00
Ukrainians tap tradition in training for fear of war with RussiaVolunteer spirit has spawned would-be partisan cellsWed Oct 22 2014 - 01:00
Ukraine and Russia eye gas deal as talks on conflict stallPutin more positive than Poroshenko in assessment of gas dealSat Oct 18 2014 - 01:00
Putin warns EU on winter gas flow before Ukraine crisis talksGermany says Russia must bolster shaky ceasefireFri Oct 17 2014 - 01:00
Saakashvili says Georgian trials motivated by revengeProsecutors claim former president misspent state funds and muzzled oppositionSat Oct 11 2014 - 01:00
Ukraine and Nato demand Russia and rebels respect truce dealDrones to be used to monitor east Ukraine as fighting rages on at Donetsk airportTue Oct 07 2014 - 01:00
Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge feels pull of Islamic StateFor young men in impoverished region, jihad can offer a tempting escape from a grim lifeSat Oct 04 2014 - 01:00
Oligarch taking care of business in eastern Ukraine for KievBlue and yellow of Ukraine flies proudly from cars and buildings in DnipropetrovskWed Sept 17 2014 - 01:00
