At the moment, Ukrainians need a visa to travel to EU countries and the process for getting one is lengthy and expensive. By contrast, most EU citizens have been allowed to travel to Ukraine without a visa...
It is true to say that with its 55 million people the Ukraine is therefore the elephant on our European doorstep. Still, the policy is to resist giving any hint of promise of future membership. Ukraine has as much right
The Germans have made their decision: tens of billions of euros in business in exchange for friendship with the regime," says a top east European diplomat... Would NATO stand unequivocally by its new members in confrontation with Russia?
TEHRAN, May 16 (RIA Novosti) - Three Iranian embassy staff were wounded Thursday when unknown gunmen opened fire on their vehicle in Baghdad, Iran's Press TV said on Friday. Iran's Foreign Ministry condemned the attack, which occurred at 17:00 local
TBILISI, May 16 (RIA Novosti) - Georgian reintegration minister, Temur Yakobashvili, began a two-day visit to Moscow on Friday, his spokesman said. The minister will meet with a number of Foreign Ministry and State Duma officials to discuss a resolution
BEIJING, May 16 (RIA Novosti) - A school boy was rescued after 80 hours trapped in the rubble of a collapsed school building in southwest China's Sichuan province, hit by a powerful quake Monday, local media said on Friday. The
KIEV, May 16 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine has become the 152nd member of the World Trade Organization, the largest global trade body. The accession document was signed by President Viktor Yushchenko and WTO chief Pascal Lamy on February 5. It
MOSCOW, May 16 (RIA Novosti) - The foreign ministers of Brazil, Russia, India and China, the so-called BRIC countries, have agreed to hold another meeting in September in New York, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday. The agreement to
TBILISI, May 15 (RIA Novosti) - Georgia's foreign minister said on Thursday that the country would regard any increase in Russian peacekeepers in the breakaway republic of South Ossetia as encroachment on national sovereignty. Last month Russia increased its peacekeeping
MOSCOW, May 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia wants to increase bilateral trade with Mongolia to $1 billion by 2010, a source in the Kremlin said on Thursday. Mongolian President Nambaryn Enkhbayar will be in Moscow on a three-day working visit
RUSSIA * Yury Baluyevsky, chief of the Russian Armed Forces' General Staff, denied reports of Moscow's plans to open an air force base in Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia * Russian President Dmitry Medvedev appointed Viktor Ivanov, a former presidential
