At first glance from the railway station, Uzhhorod resembles a southern coastal town. The local plants, scents and colours have a slight southern flavour to them. Uzhhorod’s latitude is virtually identical to that of Northern Crimea. By the time the first of Kyiv’s trees begin to blossom, Uzhhorod is already full of green lawns, blossoming jasmine and local sakura revealing its first petals. However, the city is also no stranger to the occasional April snowfall.

The hryvnia depreciated for a seventh day against the dollar, poised for its longest losing streak since December 2008, on speculation uncertainty about Europe’s debt crisis is damping demand for the country’s debt.

Ukraine will use fighters and helicopters to guard its air space and put security and health services on full alert during the European soccer championship, but officials said on May 22 they could do little to stem a likely flood of prostitutes. The country's top security and defence official, Andriy Klyuev, told security chiefs that the world would judge Ukraine by how it dealt with the security challenges posed by the month-long Euro-2012 tournament in June.

    A Gala Opening Week of events May 6 to 13 was held in the days leading up to the official Mass of Blessing to dedicate the new Cathedral of the Holy Family in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon.   The week of celebration began with an opening Mass May 6 at St. Paul Co-Cathedral, acknowledging the historic contribution of that faith community as Saskatoon's first Catholic parish and as the diocesan cathedral from the time the diocese was formed in 1933-34 until this year.

Windows smashed in, burning barricades along the streets, and tense confrontations between police and protesters. Dozens of people were arrested late Sunday night and into the early hours of Monday morning in Montreal, Canada when a night time demonstration descended into riots.

Ukraine’s State Agency for Cinema issued, with some restrictions, a distribution permit for the scandalous $10-million-budget Russian-Ukrainian film ‘The Match’ in April this year. The film caused a tsunami of criticism from the Ukrainian public, historians and independent film experts due to its anti-Ukrainian character and the plot being built on a propaganda myth invented in the USSR. Several NGOs even urged Ukraine’s Minister of Culture to ban this film from distribution in Ukraine altogether. In their turn, the producers accused mythical Ukrainian “ultranationalists” of stirring up a campaign against their film.

PRRESIDENT of the Ukrainian Olympic Committee Sergei Bubka says he has suspended the secretary-general of his NOC over claims he had sold tickets for the London Olympics on the black market. Bubka, a pole vault legend, said that he had no option but to suspend Volodymyr Gerashchenko after the BBC had revealed that he had been exposed in a sting operation trying to sell on 100 tickets for the Games.

  CHICAGO, USA -- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), at a summit in Chicago, expressed concern about selective justice and politically motivated prosecutions in Ukraine, sending a strong message to President Viktor Yanukovych.

  As the date of the largest football tournament EURO 2012 nears, Ukraine - the cohost of the event together with Poland - finalizes its preparations and finished a comprehensive overhaul of the Kiev International Airport terminal Zhuliany.

  LONDON, England -- A top Ukrainian Olympic official has been suspended following allegations that he had offered to sell Games tickets in breach of strict rules to prevent touting.

Kiev, UKRAINE: At first sight, few people would mark the group of topless young women protesting in the streets of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, as outspoken advocates or feminists. Garlands of flowers adorn their waist-length hair, strategically thrown forward to cover their bare breasts. But the black graffiti-style slogans that cover their arms and bellies make it crystal clear: “Ukraine is not a brothel” and “Women Power”.

The European integration of Ukraine was one of the key issues discussed during the meetings of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych at the NATO summit in Chicago.

Tired of seeing their country criticized as greedy and unfriendly, a group of Ukrainians on Monday announced a project to provide free accommodation, translation and other services to foreign football fans attending next month’s European Championship.

House Vitali Klitschko in photos