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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has secured a coalition in parliament and one of his loyalists has been named as the new prime minister.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is due in India for talks expected to focus on arms and energy contracts.

President Barack Obama has "responded positively" to calls to clamp down on market speculators, the Greek PM said after talks in Washington.

Even before the votes were tallied, Iraq’s candidates and coalitions began positioning themselves in an evolving political landscape on Monday.

The Parliament in Ukraine passed a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Yulia V. Tymoshenko on Wednesday, ousting the last of the Orange Revolution leaders from power but almost certainly not from politics.

Closer cooperation with Russia should become a major foreign policy priority for NATO.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich is expected to discuss the transit of Russian gas with European Union leaders on Monday on a visit signalling a desire for more balanced ties with Russia and Europe.

President-elect Viktor F. Yanukovich of Ukraine, who tried during the campaign to shed his reputation as an obedient Kremlin ally, intends to make his first foreign trip after taking office to Brussels, not Moscow.

A Ukrainian court has suspended the result of the recent presidential election.

Over the past month, Ukraine has demonstrated twice that it cherishes the values of democracy and the belief that it is important for people to vote...

Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine's president-elect, is prepared to initiate talks on the country's entry into the Customs Union with Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

The apparent victory of Russia’ s preferred candidate in the Ukrainian presidential race may be a relief to Vladimir V. Putin.

Georgia is ready to join NATO but Russia's position prevents the alliance from accepting the South Caucasus country.

Viktor Yanukovych's lead over Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in the second round of Ukraine's presidential polls has narrowed to 2.76% with 85% of the vote counted, election officials said on Monday.

U.S. and Russian arms-control negotiators have reached an «agreement in principle» on the first nuclear-arms-reduction treaty in nearly two decades, administration and arms-control officials said Tuesday.

Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yanukovich and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko battle for the president's post in an election on Sunday.

Poland’ s PGNiG gas monopoly has struck a gas delivery deal with Russia’ s Gazprom.

The European Union (EU) and Iraq have signed an agreement to boost cooperation in the energy sector…

Ukraine held presidential elections on January 17. Leader of the Party of Regions Victor Yanukovich and Prime Minister Julia Tymoshenko won first round of the elections, UNIAN and Ukrainskaya Pravda report.

The leader of energy-rich Turkmenistan has fired his oil and gas minister for incompetence, just three months after appointing him…