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• March 21, 2007 — Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has called to draft a national development strategy through "the consensus of political forces."^(Interfax)
• March 21, 2007 — NATO experts will discuss with the Ukrainian military issues related to completing planning of experts training course on conducting in April a self-estimation of Ukraine's fleet detachments.^{(National Radio of Ukraine)}
• March 20, 2007 — Ukrainian police on Tuesday raided and searched the home of a top leader of the opposition, Yury Lutsenko, for alleged weapons possession violations while serving as the country's top cop.^(m&c)
• March 16, 2007 — Ukraine's oldest man Hryhoriy Nestor, who was born on March 15, 1891, turns 116 years old.^{(BBC News)}
• March 12, 2007 — Ukraine plans to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) later this year.^{(RIA Novosti)}
• March 9, 2007 — The presidents of Poland and Ukraine confirmed their 100 % commitment to do everything necessary to help their respective Football Associations to secure the rights to host the UEFA European Football Championship in 2012.^{(Tribalfootball)}
• March 7, 2007 — The Polish and Ukrainian presidents on Wednesday announced plans for a five-country energy summit to discuss transporting Caspian Sea oil westward via Ukraine as their nations try to reduce their dependance on Russian supplies.^{(Kyiv Post)}
• March 7, 2007 — The United States House of Representatives majority approved a bill Tuesday providing support and funding for Ukraine and Georgia's membership to NATO.^(Yerkir)
• March 7, 2007 — The European Union Wednesday approved € 494 million in aid to Ukraine through 2010 to support economic and political reforms.^(UNIAN)

• March 5, 2007 — Negotiations between Ukraine and the European Union on reaching new enhanced agreement started in Brussels.^{(National Radio of Ukraine)}
• March 3, 2007 — Monument to great Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko inaugurated in Tbilisi, Georgia.^{(National Radio of Ukraine)}
• March 2, 2007 — Ukraine's president said Friday he supported opening a museum dedicated to Soviet repression in Ukraine, but acknowledged that it would be difficult.^{(Kyiv Post)}
• March 1, 2007 — Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili (pictured) held a joint press conference in Tbilisi on Thursday after meeting one-on-one and chairing Ukrainian-Georgian talks.^(ForUm)
• March 1, 2007 — The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is concerned about the Ukrainian constitutional crisis in Ukraine.^(UNIAN)
• February 25, 2007 — Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko's bloc and pro-presidential Our Ukraine signed an agreement on Saturday to form an opposition alliance in parliament. The agreement also included Socialist Party factions.^{(All Headline News)}
• February 24, 2007 — Opposition leaders in the Ukrainian parliament, Yulia Tymoshenko and Vyacheslav Kyrylenko Saturday in a letter to President Viktor Yushchenko expressing concern over current policies conducted by the parliament majority coalition and the government led by Viktor Yanukovych urging the President to intervene.^{(RIA Novosti)}
• February 22, 2007 — Ukraine and Russia approach their positions in determination of state border line in Sea of Azov (pictured).^(ForUm)
• February 22, 2007 — The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has accused Moscow Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov of interference in internal affairs of Ukraine by his statements at a meeting in Sevastopol on Wednesday.^(ITAR-TASS)
• February 21, 2007 — President Viktor Yushchenko: Learning and speaking Ukrainian is essential for every citizen.^{(Ukrainian National Radio)}
• February 20, 2007 — The State Veterinary Department of Ukraine has temporarily forbidden the poultry import to Ukraine from the Moscow Oblast of Russia, as there are speculations that the birds may have fallen ill with avian flu.^(UNIAN)
• Feburary 17, 2007 — The official report into the crash of a Russian passenger jet over Donetsk, Ukraine last year has concluded that pilot error was to blame.^{(BBC News)}
• February 16, 2007 — Ukraine, Lithuania and Belarus said that they will establish an oil supply system that will serve as an alternative to Russian energy supplies to secure soft landing in case Moscow cuts deliveries.^(mosnews)
• February 14, 2007 — Methane leak kills 3 coal miners in eastern Ukraine, Donetsk Oblast.^(AP)
• Feburary 12, 2007 — A former Ukrainian foreign minister said Monday that Russia's purported decision to blacklist Volodymyr Ohryzko is an attempt to foil his confirmation by parliament as the new foreign minister.^{(RIA Novosti)}
• February 12, 2007 — The Justice Ministry plans to complete suggestions and proposals from society and to submit for consideration to the Cabinet new version of the draft bill "On introduction of changes to the Law of Ukraine" up to March 1, 2007.^(ForUm)

• February 9, 2007 — People's deputies of Ukraine have given its first reading to the draft bill on amendments to the Law on Cabinet of Ministers and on local state administration by 240 votes.^(ForUM)
• February 7, 2007 — Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said that it had demanded an explanation after Russia barred entry to a Ukrainian lawmaker Petro Poroshenko.^{(Kyiv Post)}
• February 7, 2007 — Victor Yushchenko has sent a letter to Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych with a request to take measures to dub or subtitle foreign films for Ukrainian-speaking audiences.^(en.for-ua)
• February 7, 2007 — The Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada passed a bill banning any operations with the Ukrainian gas transporting system; a total of 430 out of 450 MPs voted for amending the Ukrainian law On Pipeline Transportation.^(REGNUM)

• February 6, 2007 — Yulia Tymoshenko Electoral Bloc leader Yulia Tymoshenko said that Our Ukraine and BYuT signed a declaration on joint opposition activities in the Verkhovna Rada.^{(Ukrainian National Radio)}
• February 3, 2007 — Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has called on Ukraine's medical community and public organizations to promote healthy lifestyles, including alcohol and smoking abstinence.^(Interfax)

• February 2, 2007 — Ukraine's Aerosvit and UIA may cancel all flights due to 40% fuel price increase.^(AP)
• ^{February 2, 2007 — Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych stresses the necessity to adapt Ukrainian legislation to the European standards, according to the press-service of the Cabinet of Ministers.(Ukrayinska Pravda)}
• January 30, 2007 — Ukraine says Poland undermining Euro 2012 bid.^(Reuters)
• January 26, 2007 — Russia's OAO Gazprom sought to assure jittery Europeans on Friday that new deals for the sale of natural gas to Belarus and Ukraine would prevent any more disruptions to Western Europe.^(Canada)
• January 26, 2007 — Ukraine is a primary candidate to the World Trade Organization, Director General Pascal Lamy told Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych in Davos on Friday.^(ITAR-TASS)
• January 26, 2007 — Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Friday signed into law a plan for a massive privatization of state properties including the national telephone company Ukrtelecom.^(m&g)
• January 22, 2007 — Ukraine celebrates the Reunification Day of Ukraine. PM Yanukovych and VR speaker Moroz placed flowers at T. Shevchenko and M. Hrushevsky memorials.^(ForUm)
• January 20, 2007 — Ukraine has suspended Russian crude oil deliveries on the main export pipeline to central Europe due to storms, the Emergencies Ministry in Lviv Oblast said yesterday.^{(The Times, Malta)}
• January 17, 2007 — Verkhovna Rada (building pictured) limits the power of president in Ukraine.^(KyivPost)

• January 16, 2007 — Governments of Ukraine and Estonia sign cooperation agreement in economic sector.^(NRCU)
• January 15, 2007 — In a major blow to Ukraine's president, Viktor Yushchenko, the country's parliament on Friday boosted the authority of the government headed by his arch-rival, Viktor Yanukovich, the prime minister.^(Unian)

• January 15, 2007 — Ukrainian and Romanian presidents Viktor Yushchenko and Traian Băsescu have discussed deeper bilateral cooperation in energy and support for ethnic minorities (map pictured).^(Itar-Tass)
• January 15, 2007 — Foreign Ministers of Ukraine and Czech Republic Borys Tarasiuk and Karel Schwarzenberg signed Joint declaration on cooperation in realization of Ukraine-EU Action Plan.^(ForUm)
• January 13, 2007 — Our Ukraine faction walked out on the Friday session of the Verkhovna Rada after lawmakers had overridden the President's veto of the Law On the Cabinet of Ministers.^{(Ukrayinska Pravda)}
• January 12, 2007 — The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine appointed Volodymyr Radchenko as the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, with a support of 251 lawmakers out of 441 registered in the chamber.^(Unian)
• January 11, 2007 — The transit of crude oil via the southern branch of the Druzhba oil pipeline that is located in Ukraine has resumed in full, adviser to the UkrTransNafta CEO Oleksandr Dykusarov told Interfax.^(Interfax)
• January 11, 2007 — President Victor Yushchenko, Verkhovna Rada Speaker Oleksandr Moroz and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych have discussed an agenda for 2007, according to the President's press-office.^(Unian)
• January 11, 2007 — President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko has signed the law to extend the moratorium on sale of farmland, press office of the President reported.^(ForUm)

• January 10, 2007 — Ukrzaliznytsia, Ukraine’s state railway company, inches closer to high-speed standards.^{(Kyiv Post)}
• January 6, 2007 — Two sailors, including one Russian, from a cargo ship died and eight were hospitalized with poisoning, apparently caused by a chemical reaction, off Ukraine's Black Sea coast, emergencies services said Saturday.^{(RIA Novosti)}

• January 5, 2007 — Ukraine expects that in the frameworks of the Commonwealth of Independent States (flag pictured) it will manage to set up a free trade zone, to unify customs procedures and to improve a regulatory policy.^{(Ukrayinska Pravda)}
• January 5, 2006 — Ukraine's economy grew by about 7 percent in 2006 despite Russia nearly doubling its price for natural gas.^{(Miami Herald)}
• January 3, 2006 — Ukraine is believed to be sitting on more gaseous fuel than its principal supplier of natural gas, Turkmenistan. Estimates give Ukraine at least three times the amount of natural gas in Turkmenistan, and four times that in Russia's Shtokman gas field.^{(Radio Free Europe)}
• January 1, 2006 — Massive statue of Taras Shevchenko, a Ukrainian poet, was stolen from an Oakville, Ontario park.^(Canada)

• December 29, 2005 — Ukraine's Central Election Commission on Friday approved signatures collected by the United Social Democratic Party of Ukraine in support of holding a plebiscite on whether the ex-Soviet republic should join NATO, officials said.^{(International Herald Tribune)}
• December 29, 2005 — An exhibit of Cuban posters created in the decades of the 70s and 80s have become the main attraction of the Maisternaya Art Gallery in the house of the outstanding Ukrainian painter in Kiev since Thursday.^(Plenglish)
• December 9, 2006 — The Black Sea navy fleet accord between Russia and Ukraine remains unchanged.^(Interfax)
• November 28, 2006 — Ukrainian parliament recognizes Soviet-era famine as genocide.^(AP)
• November 23, 2006 — SBU documents show that Moscow singled out Ukraine in famine^(5tv)
• November 18, 2006 — International trade lawyer bullish on Ukraine’s WTO membership ^{(Kyiv Post)}
• November 10, 2006 — Moody's changes outlook on Ukraine bonds to positive.^(Reuters)
• November 6, 2006 — Ukraine's President marks 63rd anniversary of Kiev (Kyiv) liberation.^(ForUm)
• November 1, 2006 — Ukraine hopes to join WTO by February 2007.^(5tv)
• October 17, 2006 — Ukraine hopes to finish visa regime negotiations with the European Union by the end of October.^(ForUm)
• October 10, 2006 — Next year, 2007, to be a year of Kazakhstan in Ukraine.^(ForUm)
• October 5, 2006 — "Ukraine's choice: toward Europe," a letter by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych to The Washington Post.^{(Washington Post)}
• September 24, 2006 — Coal mining in Ukraine, a dangerous profession, as 17 miners recently die in three separate accidents in Donetsk Oblast.^(AP)
• September 20, 2006 — Ukraine seeks UN General Assembly resolution declaring 1932-33 famine a genocide.^(AP)
• September 18, 2006 — US envoy to Ukraine to commemorate Nazi massacre victims in Kiev.^{(Deutsche Presse Agentur)}
• September 12, 2006 — Yushchenko asks Verkhovna Rada to support tough new anti-corruption measures.^(AP)
• September 8, 2006 — Bronze Age pyramid found in Ukraine near Luhansk. Archeologists claim the discovered structure predates Egyptian pyramids by 300 years.^(Guardian)
• September 4, 2006 — The Cabinet of Ministers orders a financial audit of Naftogaz Ukraine.^(ForUm)
• August 28, 2006 — Ukrainian-Russian intergovernmental commission completes investigation of Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crash. According to preliminary data, the TU-154 crash was caused by the strong turbulence zone, which the plane entered. ^(ForUm)
• August 26, 2006 — Evgeny Kucherevsky, a famous Soviet-Ukrainian footballer, died today after his Mercedes-Benz got into a head-on collision with a KAMAZ truck.
• August 25, 2006 — Pavlo Lazarenko faces prison term for extortion. $114 million was directed from Ukraine to banks mostly in San Francisco, USA. (AP)
• August 22, 2006 — Russian airliner crashes in eastern Ukraine 45km (30miles) north of Donetsk. 170 people were on board, including 10 crew and 39 children. (BBC News)
• August 18, 2006 — Ukraine opens up files on Stalin-era famines. The SBU declassified over 130 state archive files.(RFE/RL)
• August 16, 2006 — Interim natural gas deal reached between Russia and Ukraine. Terms for 2007 still need to be secured by Putin and Yanukovych. (VOA News)
• August 14, 2006 — Maccabi vs. Liverpool UEFA Champions League qualifier will be played in Kiev, Ukraine due to the Israel-Lebanon conflict. (4THEGAME.COM)
• August 10, 2006 — Ukraine will uphold an existing gas deal with Russia. "Ukraine is a key transit route for Russian gas to European markets." (Reuters)
• August 4, 2006 — The Parliament of Ukraine appointed Viktor Yanukovych a PM on the nominaition of the President Viktor Yushchenko. The composition of an entire Cabinet of Ministers has been approved as well.(BBC)
• August 2, 2006 — Yushchenko agreed to officially propose the parliament nominated Yanukovych for PM after the latter signed up to a declaration of principles safeguarding Ukraine's policies of closer integration with Europe and market reforms. (AFP)
• July 28, 2006 — Yushchenko led Rada talks continue behind closed doors for the second day. Former president Kravchuk is also present (Ukrainian) Ukrayinska Pravda.
• July 26, 2006 — Ukraine mills over 11 million tons of grain. (Agricultural Market)
• July 24, 2006 — Ukraine's coalition waits for President Victor Yushchenko to act on PM nominee ahead of midnight deadline. (AP)
• July 24, 2006 — A major pro-Israel rally takes place in Kiev, Ukraine's capital, as the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict continues. (Reuters AlertNet)
• July 24, 2006 — Ukraine remembers victims of the Holocaust. A commemorating monument has been dedicated in Zolochiv, Lviv Oblast. (FJC CIS)
• July 17, 2006 — Serhiy Rebrov FC Dynamo Kyiv striker was selected the Ukrainian Premier League's Player of the Season for 2005-2006.
• July, 2006 — Ukraine national football team reached the quarterfinals during World Cup 2006.
• May 20, 2006 — Ukraine's foreign minister, Borys Tarasyuk, said Saturday the country's aim of full membership in the European Union remained unchanged.
• May 20, 2006 — Ukraine can count on support from the U.S. if it wishes to reconsider its gas agreements with Russia, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst has said.
• May 20, 2006 — Ukraine owes Russia USD 400 million for natural gas supplies.
• May 19, 2006 — Ukrainian cultural figures and celebrities criticized efforts Friday to grant the Russian language special status, calling it an act of war against Ukrainian.
• May 19, 2006 — Ukraine has already started fulfilling a NATO membership action plan, even though the country has yet to be invited to join the alliance.
• April 20, 2006 — Ukraine asks the organization of former Soviet republics to recognize the Holodomor as genocide.
• April 20, 2006 — Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Wednesday called for further support from the international community so that the country can recover from the continuing effects of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
• April 20, 2006 — US party asks for Ukraine's participation in establishing nuclear regulation body in Iraq.
• April 20, 2006 — Vanco Energy, a privately held Houston, Texas-based oil and gas company that specializes in deep-water oil and gas exploration and development, has won the bid for developing a gas deposit on the sea shelf off the Ukrainian part of the Black Sea.
• 18 April 2006 — Greenpeace report says Chernobyl death toll has been underestimated. (Article in Wikinews)
• December 31, 2005 — Russian prelate wants Ukrainian Catholic move to Kiev reversed. (Catholic World News)
• December 27, 2005 — Russian prosecutors said Monday that they had dropped charges against Yulia Tymoshenko, the former prime minister of Ukraine, who had been accused of offering bribes to Russian officials as head of Ukraine's gas company. (Reuters)
• December 22, 2005 — Bulgaria and Ukraine have withdrawn hundreds of troops from Iraq this week as part of the general wind down after the national elections. (The Age)
• December 19, 2005 — Talks between the prime ministers of Russia and Ukraine failed on Monday to bring the two neighbors closer to a deal on gas supplies amid an intensifying row that has strained relations between the two former Soviet republics. (Xinhua)
• July 18, 2005 — President Yushchenko odered the country's traffic police (DAI) disbanded because it has proved impossible to stamp out corruption.
• July 12, 2005 — President Yushchenko, visiting Vienna, Austria, announced that visa requirements for citizens of Canada and Japan would soon be lifted. The nationals of the U.S. and the EU states already can enter Ukraine without visas.

• July 9, 2005 — the G8 leaders also increased their pledges to approximately $1 billion to fund construction of a new protective encasement in Ukraine to cover the remnants of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor (pictured) to improve safety and security.
• June 30, 2005 — Ukraine is making it easier for U.S. nationals to obtain visas. Visas would no longer be required by U.S. citizens making a second trip within six months. Citizens of EU states and Switzerland have been allowed visa-free entry to Ukraine on an experimental basis from May to September.
• June 27, 2005 — the Ukrainian Parliament registered a bill that will require government agencies, and state-controlled companies, to give preference to open source software.
• June 15, 2005 — the European Union and Ukraine agreed on the cooperation of the development of Galileo, the European civilian global positioning satellite system. The agreement would alow Ukrainian companies to join the EU financed development of Galileo.
• May 21, 2005 — the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 was won by the entry from Greece, Helena Paparizou (pictured). The competition was held in Kiev, Ukraine, after its entry, Ruslana, had won the 2004 contest singing Wild Dances. Both events were televised across Europe...