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Ukraine has made public secret archives concerning the Soviet Union's armed intervention against Czechoslovakia's 1968 Prague Spring pro-democracy movement, according to a government statement Thursday, DPA reported.

The outcome of the Ukrainian presidential election that is scheduled for January 17, 2010 will be decided in the west of the country, Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko is certain.

A total of 466 cases of the pandemic A/H1N1 flu have been laboratory confirmed in Ukraine, including 202 deaths from swine flu, the Ukrainian Health Ministry's press service reported on Tuesday.

UEFA ACTION; The official logo of the 2012 European soccer championship is seen during a presentation ceremony, with Mikhailovsky Cathedral in the background, in central Kiev.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko will back current President Viktor Yushchenko in upcoming presidential polls if she fails to get past the first round, RIA Novosti reported, citing Unian news agency.

As was disclosed by Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, the governmennt continues cooperation with the International Monetary Fund, hoping to get the fourth tranche before the end of the year.

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A Il-76 cargo plane detained in Thailand for transporting arms was rented out by a Georgian firm to a Ukrainian company,Georgian National Transportation Administration head Giorgi Bokuchava said.

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The Nationwide Leader of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev was commemorated in Kiev on Dec. 12. "Heydar Aliyev is the architect of today's Azerbaijan. If he would not be, today's Azerbaijan would not exist," the Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Ukraine Talat Aliyev said during the event, held at the monument to Heydar Aliyev in Kiev.

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Azerbaijani Embassy in Ukraine will initiate a meeting with the management of "Inter" TV channel to solve the problem with broadcasting biased materials on Nagorno-Karabakh, Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Ukraine Talat Aliyev told Trend News on Dec. 12.

Consumer confidence in Ukraine has been devastated by the global financial crisis, which led to a near collapse of the country's banking system.

The Odessa-Brody oil pipeline will not return to its intended status if either of his two rivals wins in January elections, the Ukrainian president said.

All four proposed Ukrainian cities have been confirmed by the continental football body UEFA to host Euro 2012 matches, Ukraine prime minister Yulia Timoshenko said, DPA reported.

International observers currently see no facts that could significantly influence the returns of the Ukrainian presidential election, Sergei Mirzoyev from the international nongovernment organization 'For Fair Elections' told the press on Friday.

Ukraine has made an urgent appeal to the International Monetary Fund for about $2bn in emergency loans.

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Ukraine's position on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, as a state, has not been changed. It must be solved only peacefully by following a principle of Azerbaijani territorial integrity, the Ukrainian foreign ministry said during the meeting with Azerbaijani ambassador Talat Aliyev in response to Azerbaijani diplomatic note, a source close to diplomatic circles told Trend News.

A UKRAINIAN chemistry student was killed chewing explosive bubble gum that tore off half of his face.

Kiev- A 2.4-billion-dollar Ukrainian weapons sale to Iraq will give Baghdad's army a powerful upgrade and the former Soviet republic's arms industry an unprecedented capital injection, according to news reports Thursday.

A Greek shipowning company said it had paid a ransom to Somali pirates holding one of its freighters for the past seven months, and the ship's release was expected later Thursday.

Ukraine will provide Iraq with a variety of military equipment under a recent deal intended to support Iraq's armed forces, a Russian newspaper has reported.

KIEV, Ukraine a " A senior Ukrainian lawmaker says Ukraine has reached an agreement to supply $2.5 billion worth of weapons to Iraq.Anatoly Grytsenko, the chairman of the Ukrainian's parliament's security and defense committe, said Wednesday the deal will see Ukraine provide Iraq with 420 armored personnel carriers, six AN-32B cargo planes and ...