Tag: Ukraine

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013 file photo Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych speaks during a press conference in Kiev, Ukraine. Ukraine's embattled president Viktor Yanukovych is taking sick leave on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, as the country's political crisis continues without signs of resolution. A statement on the presidential website Thursday said Yanukovych has an acute respiratory illness and high fever. There was no indication of how long he might be on leave or whether he would be able to do any work. (AP Photo/Mykhailo Markiv, Pool)

Ukraine leader’s sick leave prompts guessing game

JIM HEINTZMARIA DANILOVA · January 30, 2014 8:49 pm

Protesters chant slogans at the barricade in central Kiev, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014. Ukraine's parliament is considering measures to grant amnesty to those arrested during weeks of protests in the crisis-torn country, but possibly with conditions attached that would be unacceptable to the opposition. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Ukraine lawmakers offer protester amnesty

JIM HEINTZYURAS KARMANAU · January 29, 2014 10:19 pm

Ukrainian lawmakers applaud after voting during a parliamentary session in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. In back-to-back moves to try and resolve Ukraine's political crisis, the prime minister submitted his resignation and parliament repealed anti-protest laws that had set off violent clashes between demonstrators and police. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine PM resigns, government offers concessions

JIM HEINTZMARIA DANILOVA · January 28, 2014 10:24 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the media at the end of an EU-Russia summit, at the European Council building in Brussels on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin and European Union leaders are weighing the future of their common relationship at a summit that was abridged amid stark differences over Ukraine's future and other issues. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

Putin criticizes EU’s diplomacy in Ukraine

Raf Casert · January 28, 2014 7:58 pm

In this Dec. 3, 2013 file photo, Ukraine's Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, right, gestures to lawmakers in parliament during the session in Kiev, Ukraine. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich has accepted the resignation of Azarov and his cabinet. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, FIle)

Ukraine’s prime minister resigns, anti-dissent law repealed

Susan Crabtree · January 28, 2014 5:00 am

A protester guards the barricade in front of riot police in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. Ukraine's justice minister is threatening to call for a state of emergency unless protesters leave her ministry building, which they occupied during the night. The seizure of the building early Monday underlined how anti-government demonstrators are increasingly willing to take dramatic action as they push for the president's resignation and other concessions. Protesters now occupy four sizable buildings in downtown Kiev, including the city hall. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Ukraine president ready to scrap anti-protest law

JIM HEINTZMARIA DANILOVA · January 28, 2014 1:47 am

Biden calls Ukraine leader, urges end to standoff

Biden calls Ukraine leader, urges end to standoff

Washington Examiner · January 28, 2014 1:20 am

In this Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014 photo Marianna Kvyatkovska, left, and Alexander Bitkin fashion homemade shin and elbow pads from plastic drainage pipes at their home in Lviv, a city in Western Ukraine, which they will send to friends who are camped out in anti-government demonstrations in Kiev. Young artistic designers stayed up very late on a recent night working on their pet project _ not a chic gallery opening, but battle armor for protesters. (AP Photo/ Laura Mills)

Kiev protests buoyed by western Ukraine volunteers

Laura Mills · January 27, 2014 8:52 pm

Pope prays for Ukraine’s dead, urges dialogue

Pope prays for Ukraine’s dead, urges dialogue

Washington Examiner · January 26, 2014 11:54 am

Ukraine clashes resume, fires light up night sky

MARIA DANILOVAYURAS KARMANAU · January 24, 2014 10:28 pm

Protesters break into the building of the regional governor's office in Lviv, Western Ukraine, Thursday Jan. 23, 2014. Tensions in Ukraine spread far from its embattled capital on Thursday as hundreds of people in the city of Lviv stormed into the regional governor's office and forced him to write a letter of resignation. (AP Photo/Pavlo Palamarchuk)

Ukraine opposition urges continued truce

MARIA DANILOVAYURAS KARMANAU · January 24, 2014 2:27 am

A Ukraine opposition spokesman says chances to end violence high after meeting with president

A Ukraine opposition spokesman says chances to end violence high after meeting with president

Washington Examiner · January 23, 2014 9:08 pm