KIEV, Feb. 22 - Ukraine's Justice Ministry is preparing to file a claim against the Russian Federation to the International Court of Justice alleging racial discrimination in occupied Crimea and violation of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, Deputy Justice Minister for European integration Serhiy Petukhov said.

KIEV, Feb. 22 - The foreign ministers of Germany and France urged Ukraine on Monday to quickly resolve its political crisis and recommitted themselves to efforts to resolve the separatist war in the east of the ex-Soviet state.

KIEV, Feb. 22 - In a development almost guaranteed to upset Moscow, Ukrainians have nominated for this year's Eurovision song contest a song which commemorates Josef Stalin's deportation of more than 240,000 ethnic Tatars from their homeland in Crimea.

KIEV, Feb. 22 – Accusations of corruption threaten the consolidation of society in Ukraine, according to Foreign Ministers of France and Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Jean-Marc Ayrault.

KIEV, Feb. 22 – Odessa Regional Governor and leader of the "Rukh za ochyschennia" [Cleaning Up Ukraine] anti-corruption movement, Mikheil Saakashvili sees early parliamentary elections as the only way out of the current political crisis in Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has drawn up a list of Russian media outlets to execute the parliamentary resolution on the suspension of the accreditation of journalists and other staff of some Russian media outlets in Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 23 - Ukraine accused pro-Russian rebels of opening fire with rockets and artillery at villages in a conflict zone on Monday, all but burying a week-old European-brokered ceasefire deal.

KIEV, Feb. 23 - Prime Minister Mykola Azarov on Thursday dismissed Russia’s threat to reduce to “zero” all natural gas shipments via Ukrainian gas pipelines by using alternative routes to Europe.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – Petro Poroshenko, an opposition figure and a former foreign affairs minister, on Thursday was nominated for the post of economy minister, President Viktor Yanukovych said Thursday.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – Ukrainian officials on Wednesday pledged to correct the government’s economic policies quickly, following the European Union’s suspension of 107 million euros in budget lending amid growing concerns over corruption.