12:33
27.3.2014
"In 2014, the country lacks 289 billion hryvnya ($26 billion), which is almost the amount of the entire state budget for the current year." -- Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk
12:24
27.3.2014
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has announced that she plans to run again for president.
12:08
27.3.2014
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11:59
27.3.2014
It does appear -- given that there will have been $60 billion in capital outflow in the first quarter -- that Economic Development Minister Aleksei Ulyukayev's estimate of $100 billion in total capital outflow from Russia for all of 2014 is low-balling it.
11:54
27.3.2014
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11:34
27.3.2014
Breakaway Crimean leader Sergei Aksyonov appears to confirm the Bloomberg report that "creating a gambling zone in Crimea" is "one of the proposals being discussed."
11:06
27.3.2014
Our newsroom story on the IMF's agreement on a major bailout for Ukraine:
Read the full story HERE
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has promised to loan of between $14 billion and $18 billion to cash-strapped Ukraine.
After two weeks of talks in Kyiv, the IMF said in statement on March 27 that it had reached "a staff-level agreement with the authorities of Ukraine on an economic reform program that can be supported by a two-year Stand-By Arrangement with the IMF."
It said the precise amount would be determined "once all bilateral and multilateral support is accounted for."
The loan will help prop up Ukraine's struggling economy, further weakened lately by three months of antigovernment protests and the subsequent annexation of its Crimean Peninsula by Russia.
After two weeks of talks in Kyiv, the IMF said in statement on March 27 that it had reached "a staff-level agreement with the authorities of Ukraine on an economic reform program that can be supported by a two-year Stand-By Arrangement with the IMF."
It said the precise amount would be determined "once all bilateral and multilateral support is accounted for."
The loan will help prop up Ukraine's struggling economy, further weakened lately by three months of antigovernment protests and the subsequent annexation of its Crimean Peninsula by Russia.
Read the full story HERE
10:44
27.3.2014
Hundreds of people participated in the March 26 funeral service for Oleksandr Muzychko, a leading ultranationalist who was killed in a police operation, in the western Ukrainian city of Rivne. (video by RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)