The European Commission says deliveries of natural gas from Russia have fallen in eight countries -- Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia -- as temperatures plunged to new lows in a week-long cold snap.
A senior official at Russian fuel giant Gazprom says excess consumption of natural gas in Ukraine may be responsible for reduced fuel deliveries to European Union nations.
Another onetime political ally of Ukraine's jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko faces charges in a case that is likely to feed international outcry over what critics say is a political witch-hunt under President Viktor Yanukovych.
Ukraine's Foreign Ministry says it has prepared a list of international doctors who will be invited to conduct an independent examination of jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
Goalkeeper Oleksandr Rybka of the Ukrainian football club Shakhtar Donetsk has been banned by the European football federation, UEFA, for two years after testing positive for a prohibited substance.
Russian soccer fans concerned about making it to Kyiv for the Euro 2012 championships need worry no longer. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has announced the country's leading airlines will provide free transport to and from at least some of the Russian team's matches.
The oldest son of French President Nicolas Sarkozy left a hospital in Ukraine’s Black Sea city of Odesa after spending a day there after an apparent attack of food poisoning.
The outgoing president of the European Parliament says the prosecution in Ukraine of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has set back relations between Kyiv and Brussels.
U.S.-based pro-democracy group Freedom House calls popular uprisings that have swept the Arab world the greatest challenge to authoritarian rule since the collapse of Soviet communism.
It is as predictable as snow in a Russian winter. When Moscow has a tussle with one of its neighbors, Russian health officials suddenly discover something wrong with that country's exports.
A group of young Ukrainians has staged a performance mocking jailed ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in front of the labor camp in eastern Ukraine where she is being held.
Ukraine is expected to again press for a significant reduction in the price it pays for gas imports from Russia in a fresh round of talks scheduled to take place in Moscow.
A leading global index of economic freedom has ranked Ukraine near the bottom for the third straight year. The country ranked alongside Uzbekistan and Chad and was the least-free among the 43 countries in the Europe region. The results are dismal since the government of President Viktor Yanukovych has been promising much-needed reforms since he took office at the beginning of 2010. But Ukrainian businesses are yet to feel the results.
Some 15 women activists were barred from wishing jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko a happy New Year at the labor camp in eastern Ukraine where she is being held.
On this week's edition of The Blender, a look back at the best of the past year, as RFE/RL's only weekly English-language podcast celebrates its first anniversary.
Some 200 veterans of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster clean-up have rallied in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk to demand that they receive full pension payments.
Police in eastern Ukraine have launched an investigation into the alleged theft of tents owned by supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
Czech authorities say the husband of imprisoned Ukrainian ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko has received asylum in the European Union country as a form of "international protection."
Sergei Kupriyanov, an official representative of Russia's state-owned natural gas giant Gazprom, said today that Ukraine cannot cut in half the amount of gas it is contracted to purchase from Gazprom.
Authorities in eastern Ukraine have fenced off an area outside the labor camp housing former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko that her supporters were using to stage protests.
Tents used by people in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv rallying for jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko have been forcibly dismantled.
Oleksandr Tymoshenko, the husband of imprisoned former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, has called on world leaders to protect his wife from retribution by the government of President Viktor Yanukovych. He spoke to RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service in Prague, in one of his first interviews since being granted asylum in the Czech Republic.
The husband of Yulia Tymoshenko, the former prime minister of Ukraine, has been granted political asylum in the Czech Republic. The move comes as Tymoshenko begins serving a seven-year sentence for abuse of office.
