Nataliya Vasilyeva

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Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, second left, and Ukraine's former presidents Leonid Kuchma, first right, and Leonid Kravchuk, second right, during a round table reform discussion in Ukraine's eastern city of Kharkiv on Saturday, May 17, 2014. First left is Minister of regional development Volodymyr Groisman. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko, pool)

Eastern Ukrainians rap Kiev in talks

Nataliya Vasilyeva · May 18, 2014 12:05 am

In this Tuesday, April 29, 2014 photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to press after a meeting of the Eurasian Economic Council in Minsk, Belarus. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Presidential Press Service)

IMF says Russian economy already in recession

Nataliya Vasilyeva · April 30, 2014 12:55 pm

Pro Russian militants stand in front of a gate with graffiti reading "Russ. Russian do not surrender", in Slovyansk , eastern Ukraine, Friday, April 25, 2014. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused the West of plotting to control Ukraine and said the pro-Russian insurgents in the southeast would lay down their arms only if the Ukrainian government clears out the Maidan protest camp in the capital Kiev. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Russia credit rating cut amid Ukraine crisis

Nataliya Vasilyeva · April 25, 2014 12:22 pm

Russia’s Putin calls the Internet a ‘CIA project’

Nataliya Vasilyeva · April 24, 2014 6:08 pm

Russian opposition activist and anti-corruption crusader Alexei Navalny, right, is escorted to a court by a policeman, left, from his home, where he is currently staying under house arrest in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 22, 2014. Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption crusader Alexei Navalny was found guilty in a libel case and fined US$8,400 in a court ruling that left the door open for his subsequent jailing. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Navalny’s conviction in Russia a chilling message

Nataliya Vasilyeva · April 22, 2014 6:21 pm

A Ukrainian soldier controls a road on the outskirts of Izyum, Eastern Ukraine, Thursday, April 17, 2014. Ukraine is hoping to placate Russia and calm hostilities with its neighbor even as the U.S. prepares a new round of sanctions to punish Moscow for what it regards as fomenting unrest. (AP photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine: More stringent border checks for Russians

Nataliya Vasilyeva · April 17, 2014 4:01 pm

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, left, meets with Gazprom's Chief Executive Alexei Miller in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, April 3, 2014. Russian gas giant Gazprom on Thursday urged Ukraine to pay its debt, and announced a 70 percent rise in the charge for future supplies. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Government Press Service)

Moscow calls on Ukraine to pay down its gas debt

Nataliya Vasilyeva · April 3, 2014 4:39 pm

Russia to set up own payment system

Nataliya Vasilyeva · March 27, 2014 8:41 am

The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-12M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station (ISS) blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, March 26, 2014. The Russian rocket carries U.S. astronaut Steven Swanson, Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Space station arrival delayed for US-Russian crew

Nataliya Vasilyeva · March 26, 2014 11:08 pm

World Bank warns of risks for Russia’s economy

Nataliya Vasilyeva · March 26, 2014 7:54 am

Snag delays arrival of crew at space station

Nataliya Vasilyeva · March 26, 2014 7:14 am

Russia hopeful for OSCE observers in Ukraine

Nataliya Vasilyeva · March 22, 2014 5:55 am