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Kiev showed off two purported Russian soldiers it captured during a gun battle in the separatist east that Ukraine's pro-Western leadership says proves the Kremlin's direct involvement in the war.

• 20 мая 2015, 12:45

US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland called for concrete progress on a frayed Ukraine peace plan after a flurry of diplomacy with Russia.

• 19 мая 2015, 14:51

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Friday enacted laws banning Soviet symbols and communist-era propaganda, his office said.

• 16 мая 2015, 13:15

US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Russia this was a critical time to fulfil a fragile peace deal to end the fighting in Ukraine.

• 13 мая 2015, 14:51

Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev criticized attempts of certain politicians and countries to rewrite the history of the World War II and emphasized the necessity to preserve the truth about those years.

• 11 мая 2015, 04:51

Kazakhstan will allocate €1 million for the construction of the New Safe Confinement (NSC) intended to contain the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, Ukraine.

• 08 мая 2015, 22:30

The former undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson has reviewed promising professional boxers from Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Russia in his Maxim op-ed.

• 08 мая 2015, 22:27

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko criticised what he termed a policy of appeasement towards Russia in the context of the separatist conflict in Ukraine's east.

• 08 мая 2015, 16:34

President of Ukriane Petro Poroshenko is coming to Astana with an official visit.

• 07 мая 2015, 01:12

Western powers are getting set to counter an expertly crafted Russian disinformation campaign over Ukraine which has left them wrong-footed too many times for comfort.

• 02 мая 2015, 14:24

Ukraine will press European leaders for peacekeepers to patrol its war-torn east and will angle for more international financial support at two days of high-level talks starting.

• 27 апреля 2015, 15:21

Berlin knew the risks of flying over war-torn east Ukraine before Flight MH17 was shot out of the sky last year but did not inform German airlines.

• 27 апреля 2015, 13:21

Ukrainians marked 29 years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, placing wreaths and candles near the plant where work to lay a new seal over the reactor site has been delayed.

• 27 апреля 2015, 13:15

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an interview broadcast to mark 15 years in power, said he has no regrets over Moscow's 2014 annexation of Crimea.

• 27 апреля 2015, 12:42

Many believe that the cargo weighing 152 tons that has been received by the US Embassy in Bishkek is more than just construction materials as the Embassy staff claims.

• 22 апреля 2015, 01:52

French President Francois Hollande will discuss the Ukraine crisis with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during a visit to Armenia on April 24.

• 18 апреля 2015, 12:48

About 300 US paratroopers arrived this week in Ukraine to train the Ukrainian National Guard which is fighting pro-Russian rebels in the east.

• 17 апреля 2015, 15:12

Kazakhstani political scientist Dosym Satpayev points to the sanctions against Russia and the ruble trouble as having effect on exports and domestic production in Kazakhstan.

• 16 апреля 2015, 20:11

A former Ukraine deputy was shot dead in Kiev, the fourth ally of ousted pro-Moscow ex-president Viktor Yanukovych to die in suspicious circumstances.

• 16 апреля 2015, 13:46

Russia can expect international sanctions against it to be lifted only when it complies with the terms of a ceasefire with Ukraine.

• 16 апреля 2015, 10:05