UKRAINE CLASHES LEAVE SEVERAL DEAD AND TEST TRUMP'S RUSSIA STANCE

The violence is an early test of Donald Trump's stated desire for better US relations with Russia... READ MORE›

DEADLY ATTACK ON DONETSK SCHOOL

Ukraine crisis shell kills four at donetsk school... READ MORE›

POLICE OFFICER IS KILLED DURING UKRAINE PROTESTS

The chamber approved the constitutional amendment in a first reading, with 265 lawmakers in the 450-member Parliament voting in favor of the so-called decentralization bill during a raucous session... READ MORE›

CIVILIANS, SOLDIERS DIE IN EAST UKRAINE FIGHTING AS PUTIN VISITS CRIMEA

In Moscow Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov blamed Kiev for the violence giving no detail but saying he suspected Ukraine was preparing a new offensive... READ MORE›

ANGELA MERKEL WARNS RUSSIA COULD SEEK TO DESTABILISE 'WHOLE OF THE EUROPEAN PEACEFUL ORDER'

Russia could seek to destabilise vast areas of eastern Europe if it is not challenged in Ukraine, Angela Merkel has warned... READ MORE›

TIME LAPSE COLOSSAL CHERNOBYL SHELTER SLIDES INTO PLACE

"Radioactive dust inside the structure is being blown out through the cracks," Sergiy Paskevych of Ukraine's Institute of Nuclear Power Plant Safety Problems told AFP... READ MORE›

CHERNOBYL SILENT EXCEPT FOR THE LOGGERS

And the risk of arrest, Mr. Kalmykov is at home here... READ MORE›

MOSCOW AND KIEV IN 'POSITIVE MOOD' OVER TALKS TO END EAST UKRAINE CONFLICT

Moscow and Kiev in 'positive mood' over talks to end east Ukraine conflict... READ MORE›

UKRAINES POROSHENKO ON RUSSIA, CORRUPTION AND THE CHALLENGES AHEAD

Ukraine's poroshenko on russia corruption and the challenges ahead... READ MORE›

UKRAINE LEADER MOCKS RUSSIA'S CALL FOR ANTI-TERRORISM COALITION

Russian President Putin on Monday called for the creation of a broad international coalition to fight Islamic State and other militant extremist groups... READ MORE›

'CHERNOBYL IS NOT FINISHED, IT HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN'

Exiled scientist 'Chernobyl is not finished, it has only just begun' Yury Bandazhevsky detailed Chernobyls devastating impact on people's health, particularly that of children, in Belarus... READ MORE›

UK SERVICE SECTOR POWERS AHEAD AMID SHARP RISE IN NEW BUSINESS -LIVE

Indeed, there is a growing prospect of a sub-1 inflation reading in January given the plunge in motor fuel costs and the ongoing supermarket price-war... READ MORE›

THE SATURDAY PROFILE EX-PROFESSOR UPSETS UKRAINE POLITICS AND RUSSIA PEACE ACCORD

While politicians in Russia and Ukraine have taken turns blaming one another for stalling the implementation of Minsk II, Ms. Syroyid has proudly taken credit... READ MORE›

TERRIFIED RESIDENTS TAKE SHELTER UNDER THE ABANDONED WRECKAGE OF DONETSK

Ukraine crisis Terrified residents take shelter under the abandoned wreckage of Donetsk... READ MORE›

30 YEARS AFTER CHERNOBYL DISASTER, CONTAINMENT IS NEARING COMPLETION

But some wonder whether Ukraine can manage on its own when international support ends in 2017... READ MORE›

RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT BLASTS LITHUANIA FOR RESUMING CRIMINAL CASE INTO 1991 CLASHES

In mid-October, Lithuanian media reported that the Vilnius Regional Court had summoned former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev as a witness in the case... READ MORE›

FOREST FIRE BLAZES IN CHERNOBYL OFF-LIMITS ZONE

KIEV - Fire has engulfed a large section of the exclusion zone around the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine, authorities said Tuesday... READ MORE›

'UKRAINE, IF YOU NEED ME TO BE PRESIDENT, I WILL'

Two Russian special forces officers who were captured in eastern Ukraine and convicted of terrorism were flown to Moscow on Wednesday as part of the exchange... READ MORE›

Trucks from a Russian convoy carrying humanitarian aid for Ukraine queue near a police patrol at a Russia-Ukraine border crossing point Donetsk in Russia's Rostov Region... READ MORE›

BELARUSIAN JOURNALIST PAVEL SHEREMET KILLED IN CAR BOMBING

The 44-year old Belarusian-born journalist was killed in a car bombing in Ukraine's capital, Kiev July 20, 2016... READ MORE›

CHERNOBYL: TIMELINE OF A NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE

4 at Chernobyl's nuclear power station in the former Soviet Union... READ MORE›

CHERNOBYL REBORN? UKRAINE GOVERNMENT MULLS TURNING CONTAMINATED NUCLEAR WASTELAND INTO GIGANTIC SOLAR FARM

There has been a change in the perception of the exclusion zone in Ukraine... READ MORE›

UKRAINE FIGHTING ESCALATES, KILLING CIVILIANS, SOLDERS; PUTIN TALKS TOURISM IN CRIMEA

Fighting flared between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed rebels in separate parts of eastern Ukraine overnight, killing at least two Ukrainian soldiers... READ MORE›

THREE MORE UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS KILLED AS TRUCE FRAYS

More than 4,300 people have been killed in the conflict, which began after Ukraine's Russian-backed president was toppled by street protests in February... READ MORE›

IN SECRETIVE BELARUS, CHERNOBYL'S IMPACT IS BREATHTAKINGLY GRIM

Aftermath of nuclear catastrophe costs Belarus 20 percent of its annual budget, according to Chernobyl watchdog organization... READ MORE›

THE UKRAINIAN CHILDREN EATING FOOD TAINTED BY CHERNOBYL RADIATION

After the Ukrainian government cancels a local school lunch program, rural families must resort to contaminated food... READ MORE›

THREE DECADES LATER, CHERNOBYL RESIDUE STILL BEING FOUND IN BELARUS MILK

As a result, they say, no Belarusian food maker has ever been prosecuted for using ingredients or producing goods containing excessive levels of radioactive materials... READ MORE›

EASTERN UKRAINIANS STAGE RARE RALLY AGAINST REBEL MILITANTS

The Minsk talks are designed to help find a lasting solution that would give Lugansk and Donetsk broader autonomy within a unified Ukraine... READ MORE›

30 YEARS AFTER CHERNOBYL FOOD STILL RADIOACTIVE GREENPEACE TESTS SHOW

Economic crises in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus have brought reduced testing in areas contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Greenpeace says, and p... READ MORE›

MOURNERS MARK CHERNOBYL DISASTER'S 30TH YEAR AMID FRESH WARNINGS; DEATH TOLL STILL MYSTERY

Ukrainians held candlelit vigils Tuesday to mark 30 years since the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl spewed radiation across Europe and left sev... READ MORE›