Ukraine

Best photos of the day: 20 January 2014.

'Thousands' of protesters occupy Independence Square despite new laws, and police have moved in.

A budget debate in the Ukrainian Parliament became heated as MPs traded punches.

Liverpool are plotting a swoop for Andriy Yarmolenko from Dinamo Kiev.

Russia provides $15bn bailout assistance to Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says aid package was done for reasons of solidarity and not geopolitics

Ukrainian government budget proposal sees positive economic outlook for country in 2014 after Russian aid deal

Mr Putin has agreed to buy billions of dollars worth of Ukrainian government bonds, and reduce the price of gas exports.

Svoboda's leader Oleg Tyagnybok has been accused of anti-Semitism and was kicked out of parliament in the past

200,000 demonstrate in Kiev's main square in protest at government's decision to align with Russia and not EU.

Putin says Russia not teaching 'anyone how to live' in swipe at US over gay rights.

Russian officials say they're looking to sign bilateral investment treaty, though not full free trade deal.

Ukraine's statistical service says that the economy shrunk less than expected amid widespread protests against government.

Ukraine's ongoing economic crisis increases the cost of insuring country's debt

Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said that he has asked the European Union for financial support.

John Kerry and Catherine Ashton condemn police action as security forces deny dispersing protest camp.

Ria Novosti and Voice of Russia replaced by Rossiya Segodnya in further Kremlin media crackdown.

Police begin to dismantle protest sites in Ukraine capital

Masked protesters pull down statue of Russian revolutionary leader in Ukrainian capital.

A million protesters expected in Kiev's Independence Square in country's biggest demonstration in a decade.

Liverpool are likely to recall Mamadou Sakho for the game against Norwich after conceding six goals in two games.

Vladimir Putin denounces Ukraine protests as 'more like a pogrom than a revolution', says Julian Kossoff.

Key motion to oust government rejected despite mass protests demanding resignation of president.

Feminists back pro-EU demonstrations in Kiev with urine protest outside Ukrainian embassy in Paris.

WBC Heavyweight champion calms potentially dangerous situation in Kiev.

Kiev pro-EU demonstrators chant 'Revolution' while President Yanukovich attempts dialogue.

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Riot police disperse pro-EU crowds demonstrating against government's anti-Europe stance.

Radical feminist group supports measures punishing the clients of prostitutes, rather than the sex workers

Business between the Ukraine and the west continues despite political tensions between EU and Moscow