AP: Ukraine Cracks Illicit Weapons Case
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A government probe into lucrative illicit weapons sales by officials loyal to former President Leonid Kuchma has led to secret indictments or arrests of at least six arms dealers accused of selling nuclear-capable missiles to Iran and China, a high-ranking intelligence official said Friday.
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KIEV -- The Ukrainian prosecutor-general's office announced yesterday that it had reopened an investigation into allegations that presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned, after doctors in Austria confirmed he had ingested dioxin.
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A senior lawmaker alleges that Ukraine sold nuclear-capable cruise missiles to Iran and China in violation of international nonproliferation treaties and is demanding the new government launch a full investigation.
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A gunshot in a country-house sauna two weeks ago not only took the life of Ukraine's transportation minister, it brought wide speculation of trouble for those who have run the country the past 10 years.
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The president fired Ukraine's top prosecutor Thursday and the interior minister appeared to defy the order, sending dozens of police to surround the prosecutor's building and dramatically raising the stakes in the political chaos in the former Soviet republic.
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Actually, most of the reporting coming out of Ukraine is coming in blog form. While the AP has a three-man bureau in Kyiv and the New York Times has a couple of stringers in the country, the vast majority of ...
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Russian authorities say they intend to pursue a criminal case for bribery against Ukraine's nominated prime minister.
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Ukrainian authorities opened a criminal  probe on Tuesday into the death of the transport minister,  found with a gunshot wound to the head a day after the  opposition candidate won a controversial election re-run.
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Ukraine's leading presidential candidate recovers from what his aides say was an attempt to poison him.
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Ukraine&#39;s prime minister is welcoming the investigation into allegations that authorities tried to kill his presidential opponent by poisoning him.
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Ukrainian prosecutors said Wednesday they opened a criminal investigation into the alleged poisoning of a leading candidate in a crucial presidential election scheduled for next month.
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Yushchenko: We see this as interference in the internal affairs of Ukraine. This is debasing for Russia, it debases its authority, its policies, the entire state.
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Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma sacked his defense minister on Wednesday for failing to deal with hundreds of thousands of tons of Soviet-era weapons and ammunition that he said threaten the country's ...
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Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko speaks to members of the media during a press conference in Kiev, in this Friday, Nov. 19, 2004 file photo.
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KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukraine lawmakers have reopened their investigation in opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko&#39;s disfiguring illness after doctors in Austria said he was poisoned.
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Ukrainian prosecutors Sunday reopened their investigation into allegations Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned after doctors treating the opposition leader confirmed he had been slipped the toxic chemical dioxin.