Ukraine on Saturday launched a terror probe into a Ukrainian man's attempt to force an airliner flying to Turkey to land in Sochi where leaders were gathered for the opening of the Witner Olympic Games.
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday gave high-level support to pro-democracy protestors in Ukraine, declaring in a primetime speech that they should have a say in their country's future direction.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, facing massive anti-government protests in Kiev and regional capitals, has agreed to re-shuffle his government and amend controversial new anti-protest laws. The Voice of Russia talked to Fyodor Lukyanov Editor-in-Chief of the "Russia in Global Affairs" journal.
The violent stand-off in Ukraine dominates an EU-Russia summit Tuesday, with mutual trust in short supply and few expecting any progress on how to reconcile sharply conflicting views of Europe's future.
Russia has really helped Ukraine, in contrast to vain promises and insolent demands of the West, speaker of RF State Duma (lower house of parliament) Sergei Naryshkin said on Thursday, opening an 'Open Tribune' meeting.
Ukraine will continue the course towards European integration, the country's President Viktor Yanukovich said on Sunday at a meeting with influential U.S. Republican Senator John McCain and Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Chairman of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs.
Moscow does not doubt the large-scale rallies in Ukraine have been staged long beforehand, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with the Rossiya-24 television channel.
The United States on Tuesday voiced its "disgust" at Ukraine's repression of demonstrators at Kiev's Independence Square, Secretary of State John Kerry said.
Ukraine's every city seems to far from indifferent about the events in the capital city, where protesters support the European integration. The mass rallies grew into the opposition's major confrontations with the authorities, which had used force to
disperse the protesters.
Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich begins a four-day visit to China Tuesday. Its itinerary includes talks with President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang.