A scheme to ensure equal TV coverage of Russian political parties looks like more of the old Kremlin window dressing.

Riga was pretty in pink for a day, but Latvians are glum as their country sinks deeper into the red.

Russians support the president's decisions but think Putin is the real power in the land.

A call for stepping away from a formalistic approach to civil society and a new focus on initiatives that genuinely promote good values.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine forwarded Viktor Yushchenko an interpellation concerning necessity to remove the NBU chairman Volodymyr Stelmakh from his position, the ForUm's correspondent informs. 319 out of 433 MPs registered in the session hall voted for this interpellation.

Yulia Tymoshenko urgently does to Volyn oblast. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has set up an operative staff for mitigation of consequences of the natural disaster in Volyn oblast, chaired by the Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, ForUm

National Security and Defense Council Secretary Raisa Bohatyriova has said she is confident that early parliamentary elections should be held before presidential polls, according to Kyiv Post. National Security and Defense Council Secretary Raisa Bohatyriova has said she is confident

The Party of Regions has not stopped negotiations process with the BYuT faction. MP from the Party of Regions Vadym Kolesnichenko said, the ForUm's correspondent informs. Kolesnichenko confirmed continuation of negotiations between the Party of Regions and BYuT on issues

Ukraine is interested in stepping up cooperation with Belarus, Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko said at a meeting with Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sigorsky in Kyiv on Friday, Interfax-Ukraine reported. The president stressed that he would call on the government and

German newspaper Bild retracted a report on a drunken incident with Oleksandr Lutsenko, the son of Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko, at Frankfurt Airport. Kyiv Post reported. A well-informed source told Interfax-Ukraine that according to the decision taken by Berlin land

The Prime Minter Yulia Tymoshenko has held a meeting with Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky in a tête-à-tête and enlarged format, government portal reported. The Head of Ukrainian Government emphasized that Ukraine attaches huge importance to cooperation with Belarus.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko has called on the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry to protect Ukrainians if they are discriminated against while trying to get visas to EU member-states. "I am asking the Foreign Ministry to tell our ambassadors and consuls that

On June 12, Focus magazine presented its third annual rating "55 Best Cities for Living in Ukraine". The city of Lviv became the winner of the rating-2009, Unian reported. In particular, Lviv occupied the top position by a number of

Parents could be banned from educating children at home in a move branded a "very bad day for civil liberties".

MI5 is attempting to recruit teachers as "spies" in a new recruitment drive.

Parents will be able to rate their children's school every year under new plans to crack down on poor performance.

Parents could be banned from educating children at home.

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Ceri Radford says that Arnold Schwarzenegger is doing pupils a disservice with his plan to abolish real books.

Small manufacturers especially at risk