The Ukrainians should have their own choices freely without interference from the outside, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has demanded that Kiev take urgent measures and release the two journalists from the Russian TV channel Zvezda (the Star), who were detained near Slovyansk in eastern Ukraine Friday.
Russia is ready for talks with Ukraine only when there are no artillery fires in the country, said Valentina Matviyenko, head of the Russian parliament's upper house Saturday.
When the giant screen on Ouistreham's Sword Beach beamed images of Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama in a split picture, laughter erupted among those attending the D-Day commemorations on Friday.
Russia has already received around 4, 000 Ukrainian refugees, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday.
Decentralization in Ukraine will proceed according to the Polish model, Ukrainian president-elect Petro Poroshenko said Wednesday in Warsaw.
U.S. President Barack Obama met Ukrainian President-elect Petro Poroshenko in Warsaw on Wednesday.
Russia on Monday circulated among members of the UN Security Council a draft resolution on humanitarian situation in the southern and eastern parts of Ukraine, saying that "the Security Council must react to the escalation of the situation in southeastern Ukraine."
Ukraine's Central Electoral Commission (CEC) announced Thursday businessman Petro Poroshenko had won the presidential elections in the first round with 54.7 percent of the vote.
Russia is ready to cooperate with everyone who desires a faster solution to Ukraine's crisis, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday called Ukrainian president-elect Petro Poroshenko, pledging "full support" for his efforts to resolve the crisis facing the Eastern European nation.
Russia said Monday it would respect the will of Ukrainians in their presidential election, but warned Kiev against resuming a military operation in the country's southeastern regions.
The comments on the two leading presidential candidates of Ukrain of Oleg Liashko and Poroshenko.
A senior UN official said here Wednesday that 127 people have died in several weeks of violence in east and south Ukraine, which will make it more difficult for the country to hold presidential elections in the region on Sunday.
The United States sees no indication that Russian troops are pulling back from the Russian border with Ukraine, the White House said Monday.
NATO has not seen any evidence of Russia pulling back troops from the Ukraine border after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a withdrawal, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Monday.
Kiev has asked Moscow to compensate it for the damage caused by the loss of offshore energy reserves in Crimea, following the peninsula's incorporation into Russia.
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