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  Ukrainian to vote for New President

  World | May 25, 2014 12:20 IST

  Kiev: Ukrainians will go to polls Sunday to elect a new president after months of unrest in the country following the ousting of former president Viktor Yanukovych in February.The elections, which were earlier scheduled to

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  Arrest warrant issued against Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych

  World | February 24, 2014 16:03 IST

  Simferopol: Ukraine's acting interior minister says that a warrant is out for the arrest of President Viktor Yanukovych, last seen in the pro-Russian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea. In a statement on his official Facebook

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  Ukraine protesters take Kiev; president says coup

  World | February 22, 2014 23:01 IST

  Kiev: Protesters today took control of Ukraine's capital, seizing the president's office as parliament voted to remove him and hold new elections.President Viktor Yanukovych described the events as a coup and insisted he would not

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  Deadly violence that killed 27 shatters Ukraine truce

  World | February 20, 2014 22:06 IST

  Kiev: Ukraine's brittle truce shattered today in fierce clashes between baton-wielding protesters and riot police that claimed at least 27 lives just as EU envoys were holding crisis talks with the embattled president.Bodies of anti-government

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  Ukrainian president calls truce with opposition

  World | February 20, 2014 8:49 IST

  Kiev: Amid mounting global pressure on his government to end violence, an embattled Ukranian President Viktor Yanukovych agreed Thursday to hold talks with the opposition after at least 26 people were killed this week."Negotiations" would

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  Ukraine's jailed ex-PM: leader killing EU hopes

  World | November 12, 2013 20:16 IST

  Kiev, Ukraine: Ukraine's jailed former premier, Yulia Tymoshenko, has accused President Viktor Yanukovych of killing the country's hopes to sign a landmark integration agreement with the European Union by going after her lawyer.Tymoshenko's top attorney,

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  India inks pact with Ukraine on nuclear safety

  India | December 10, 2012 16:26 IST

  New Delhi, Dec 10: In a bid to enhance safety of its increasing number of nuclear plants, India on Monday inked a pact with Ukraine on Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection to take advantage of