Ukraine’s opposition has failed to force out the government with a no-confidence vote in parliament, leaving the country’s political tensions unresolved.

Opposition MPs have booed Ukraine’s prime minister, whose government shelved a potential historic deal with the European Union, while turning towards Moscow.

Ukraine’s highest court has upheld the guilty verdict against the country’s ex-prime minister who is in jail on abuse of office charges.

FORMER Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was jailed for seven years in a trial widely condemned in the West as politically motivated.

Ukraine’s embattled premier Yulia Tymoshenko says she has withdrawn her legal challenge to the results of the country’s presidential election.

Ukraine’s embattled prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko today appeared in public for the first time in days, but still resisted calls to concede defeat in the presidential election and resign her post.

Pro-Russian opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych declared victory in Ukraine’s presidential run-off today, but his opponent rejected the claim, saying the vote was too close to call.

AN EXIT poll says opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych has been elected Ukraine’s next president, steering the country away from the pro-Western course set by the 2004 Orange Revolution.

The arch-enemy of Ukraine's pro-democracy movement won a first-place finish in the initial round of presidential voting, setting him up for a showdown with the heroine of the 2004 Orange Revolution, exit polls showed.

DISAPPOINTED with the failures of the Orange Revolution, Ukraine was yesterday poised to hand the pro-Russia Viktor Yanukovich a comeback in presidential polls at the expense of his West-leaning rivals.

Ukraine rejected Russia's latest request to pass on gas to increasingly frustrated EU consumers today, deepening the bitter economic and political dispute.

The speaker of the Ukrainian parliament has announced the collapse of the pro-Western governing coalition.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has survived a no-confidence vote in parliament.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych has refused to accept a presidential order to hold early parliamentary elections.

UKRAINE’S pro-Western president Viktor Yushch- enko held crisis talks last night with his prime minister, as a deepening power struggle between the two rivals brought thousands onto the streets in protest.

UKRAINE’S main opposition party joined together with two other groups in parliament to propose defeated presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovich as prime minister.

Ukrainian media today reported that the estranged Orange Revolution allies had reached a coalition agreement that will restoreYulia Tymoshenko as prime minister, ending nearly three months of political uncertainty.

Russian President Vladimir Putin today said European demands for access to Russian energy assets were unfair.

Pro-Russian opposition leader Viktor Yanukovcyh today accused Ukraine’s president of deceiving the nation to seize power during the 2004 Orange Revolution mass demonstrations.

Thousands of Belarusians demonstrated in a central Minsk square for the third night in a row tonight, swelling the ranks of a core group who spent the previous night there to protest at the extension of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko’s rule.

Belarus’ main opposition candidate demanded a new vote today as President Alexander Lukashenko stormed to victory by a massive margin.

SEVERAL thousand opposition supporters gathered on a main square in central Minsk last night as polls closed in a disputed presidential election.