Kiev - Ukraine on Thursday threatened to pull the plug on Russia's biggest TV station unless it agrees to stop transmitting ads for vodka during daytime programming.
Under Ukrainian law, advertising alcohol on TV is only allowed in the evening after prime time, and then only as long as actual drunkness is not depicted.
Kiev claims that Russia's state-run Perviy Kanal (First Channel) is breaking written undertakings not to broadcast vodka ads and has given it until June to clean up its act.
Kiev/Chisinau - Ukraine will extradite back home a pair of Moldovans suspected of organising violent anti-government protests, a government official said Wendesday.
Moldovan businessman Gabriel Stati and his associate Auren Marinescu could be returned to Chisinau "as early as tomorrow," said Oleksander Shinalsky, a spokesman for the Prosecutor General's office.
Kiev - Former French footballing great Michel Platini on Wednesday said a pair of Ukrainian sides had an edge over their French opponents in Thursday's UEFA Cup quarter-finals.
"I have to say the Ukrainians have a certain advantage," the European football boss Platini told a news conference in Kiev.
Shakhtar Donetsk visit Olympique Marseille with a 2-0 cushion from the first leg while Dynamo Kiev take on Paris St Germain after drawing 0-0 last week in Paris.
Kiev - Ukrainian border police have intercepted a record load of smuggled cigarettes, Korrespondent magazine reported Wednesday. Law enforcers at the Chop border crossing inspecting vehicles traveling from the former Soviet republic into the Czech Republic late Tuesday night discovered more than 220,000 packages of L&M cigarettes concealed in a rail car.
Kiev - New loans to Ukraine's cash-strapped government remain difficult to approve, despite recent attempts at market reforms in country, a senior fund official said Tuesday. "We are continuing our discussions... but at this point is is premature to say, when it might be possible," said Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission head in Ukraine.
Chisinau/Kiev - Opponents of Moldova's Communist government renewed mass protest on Sunday, with more than 10,000 people taking part in a peaceful demonstration in the capital Chisinau. The peaceful march moved along Chisinau's main Stefan Chel Mare Boulevard without halting traffic, as with protests in previous days.
Three opposition political parties upset with a Communist election win a week ago organized the demonstration.
Kiev - Ukraine on Thursday threatened to pull the plug on Russia's biggest TV station unless it agrees to stop transmitting ads for vodka during daytime programming.
Kiev/Chisinau - Ukraine will extradite back home a pair of Moldovans suspected of organising violent anti-government protests, a government official said Wendesday.
Kiev - Former French footballing great Michel Platini on Wednesday said a pair of Ukrainian sides had an edge over their French opponents in Thursday's UEFA Cup quarter-finals.
Kiev - Ukrainian border police have intercepted a record load of smuggled cigarettes, Korrespondent magazine reported Wednesday. Law enforcers at the Chop border crossing inspecting vehicles traveling from the former Soviet republic into the Czech Republic late Tuesday night discovered more than 220,000 packages of L&M cigarettes concealed in a rail car.
Kiev - New loans to Ukraine's cash-strapped government remain difficult to approve, despite recent attempts at market reforms in country, a senior fund official said Tuesday. "We are continuing our discussions... but at this point is is premature to say, when it might be possible," said Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission head in Ukraine.
Chisinau/Kiev - Opponents of Moldova's Communist government renewed mass protest on Sunday, with more than 10,000 people taking part in a peaceful demonstration in the capital Chisinau. The peaceful march moved along Chisinau's main Stefan Chel Mare Boulevard without halting traffic, as with protests in previous days.
