by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 26, 2014 | World
Kiev, Reuters—Petro Poroshenko, a billionaire chocolate manufacturer, claimed the Ukrainian presidency with an emphatic election victory on Sunday, taking on a fraught mission to quell pro-Russian rebels and steer his fragile nation closer to the West. A veteran...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 25, 2014 | World
Kiev/Donetsk, Reuters—Ukrainians voted on Sunday in a presidential election billed as the most important since they won their independence from Moscow 23 years ago, but armed pro-Russian separatists disrupted voting in eastern regions of the former Soviet republic....
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 23, 2014 | World
Kiev and Karlovka, Reuters—Armed pro-Russian separatists and a Ukrainian militia group clashed in the east of Ukraine on Friday, leaving at least two dead and heightening tension ahead of a presidential election called to draw a line under six months of bloody...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 30, 2014 | World
Kiev, Bloomberg—Former world boxing champion Vitali Klitschko dropped his bid for Ukraine’s presidency to support the frontrunner, billionaire Petro Poroshenko, setting up a clash with ex-Premier Yulia Tymoshenko. “Democratic forces should have one...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 28, 2014 | World
Moscow, AP—Russia’s foreign ministry on Friday alleged that ethnic minorities in Ukraine are living in fear after the ouster of the country’s president and the coming to power of interim authorities that include right-wing nationalists. The statement by...
