Ex-Premier Yulia Tymoshenko is fading fast before the May 25 election.
When President Putin visits Beijing next week, China and Russia are expected to cement their energy alliance with a new deal.
Ukraine is set to host roundtable talks with Moscow on Wednesday set to resolve the ongoing crisis in eastern parts of the country.
Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have asked Russia to “absorb” the Donetsk region into its territory.
An 89% plebiscite for autonomy has people in the self-styled "Donetsk People's Republic" worried that it's a prelude to war.
Pro-Russian protesters said that nearly 90 percent of locals had opted to declare Luhansk and Donetsk as independent states.
Sunday's vote went ahead despite a call by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to postpone it.
Where does the fractured nation go from here?
Russia's president has shown remarkable improvement since learning to skate in 2011.
The separatists' capital Donetsk gets ready to choose its future, but no one really knows how and where to vote.
Friday is Victory Day in the former USSR, and Russia celebrates with a huge parade. The president was there, before going to Crimea.
Russia supplies close to 30 percent of the natural gas used in Europe and ships half of it through Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin flew to Sevastopol on Friday to celebrate the 1945 Soviet victory over the Nazis.
Russia took major steps to distance itself from separatists in the east this week. Could that help broker peace?
On May 9, Russians remember the victory over Nazi Germany. But this year, it's a possible Ukrainian war they are thinking about.
The region gets ready for Sunday's referendum on autonomy, but in the "People's Republic of Donetsk" there are more basic concerns.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said this would create conditions for dialogue between the Ukrainian authorities and the separatists.
The man who cut a deal with Putin’s right-hand man has no regrets -- and, like other European business people, a few fears.
Oil executives are stuck between the White House and a cold place, between sanctions and enticing prospects in the Russian Arctic.
Georgia's ex-Premier Bidzina Ivanishvili has a lucrative relationship with Vladimir Putin, who will pay big money for political aims.
A general cites a "drastic" rise in military flights near U.S. territories, Korea and Japan.
U.S. and EU measures against Russia are sending companies to China for financial partnerships.