KIEV, Ukraine - Three factions in Ukraine's Parliament, the Regions Party, the Communist Party and the Lytvyn' s blok, decided to create a new ruling coalition along with some individual lawmakers, said a leader of the Regions Party on Wednesday.
Oleksandr Lavrinovych

ISTANBUL, Turkey - An armed Turkish man who attempted to force his way into the Ukrainian Consulate General in Istanbul was shot by police and later died in hospital on Tuesday.

An unidentified gunman is carried to an ambulance after he was shot and wounded in front of the Ukrainian consulate in Istanbul March 9, 2010. A security guard shot and wounded a gunman, believed to have been carrying a bomb, when he tried to enter the Ukrainian consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday, media said.

MOSCOW, Russia - Ukraine’s newly elected president, Viktor F. Yanukovich, arrived in Moscow on Friday promising a “sharp turn” in his country’s relations with Russia, five years after the Orange Revolution chilled ties between the two neighbors.

KIEV, Ukraine - Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's governing majority in Ukraine's parliament collapsed Tuesday, bringing her newly elected rival, President Viktor Yanukovych, a step closer to his goal of removing her from office.
Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko made her speech during her briefing in Kiev on Tuesday.

KIEV, Ukraine - Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's ruling coalition collapsed on Tuesday when it failed to show it still had a majority, the speaker of parliament said.

Speaker of Parliament Volodymyr Lytvyn.