LONDON — Royal Dutch Shell, the largest oil company in Europe, has signed a contract to drill for natural gas in Ukraine. The company’s chief executive, Peter Voser, and the Ukrainian president, Viktor F. Yanukovich, signed a production agreement Thursday for the potentially prolific Yuzivska gas field in the eastern part of the country. The signing took place at the World Economic Forum in Davos,
Tucked away in the far western corner of present-day Ukraine, the city of Lviv defies expectations. Far smaller than Kiev, it was a closed city during the Soviet period from 1945 to 1991, and even today remains relatively little known. Yet in the early twentieth century, it was home to a roughly equal number of Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews and as a result the city played a special and largely unrec
MOSCOW — Criminal proceedings were dismissed Wednesday against the former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma in the killing 11 years ago of a prominent investigative journalist critical of his administration. The case, which helped galvanize Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, was seen as a litmus test for whether the country had broken with the sometimes bloody post-Soviet period. The decapitated body of
Sergei Supinsky/Getty Images Ukrainian opposition lawmakers shout “Shame,” next to a giant poster featuring former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko with the slogan ‘No political repression,’ while pro-president parliament members applaud as President Viktor Yanukovych addresses the parliament, September 6, 2011, Kiev Few countries have a better case for sovereign government and the rule o
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