Extreme cold and heavy snow buried parts of Europe over the past few days, claiming the lives of hundreds of people, straining utilities in France, snarling transportation in Britain and leaving people in cities like Rome stymied. Eastern Europe was particularly hard hit. Ukraine's Ministry of Emergencies reported that at least 131 people had died...
MOSCOW -- The flow of natural gas has fallen off sharply in the main pipelines supplying Europe from Russia, but this time cold weather -- not politics -- is to blame. The dwindling supply is sending a chill through an already very chilly European Union, though it has not yet led to heating shutdowns: countries have tapped reserves or alternative...
At least 58 people have died in the last week in a brutal cold wave that has plunged temperatures to 17 degrees below zero in some areas. Ukraine has been among the hardest-hit countries, with as many as 30 people having died there in the past four days. More than 540 have been hospitalized with hypothermia and frostbite. WORLD BRIEFING | EUROPE...
Ukraine (ukrainsk: Україна russisk:Украина) er et land i Østeuropa med 46,5 mio. indbyggere. Grænselandene er Rusland, Polen, Hviderusland, Slovakiet, Ungarn, Rumænien og Moldova. I syd støder det op til Sortehavet, hvor halvøen Krim ligger. Ukraine er arealmæssigt næst efter Rusland det største land i Europa. Hovedstaden er Kiev med 2,6 mio. indbyggere. Indtil 1991 var Ukraine en delstat i Sovjetunionen.
Ukraine er en demokratisk republik, hvor den lovgivende, udøvende og dømmende magt er adskilt. Præsidenten vælges i flertalsvalg for femårsperioder og nominerer premierministeren. Nationalforsamlingen, Verkhovna Rada, må så bekræfte dette valg.
Krim har en speciel politisk status med eget parlament. Vedtagelser af dette parlament kan alligevel forkastes af den ukrainske forfatningsdomstol, hvis de skulle stride mod den ukrainske grundlov. Fold ud