The glamorous Orange Revolution princess and former premier Yulia Tymoshenko may now be in opposition but her ghosts are still haunting the government offices in Ukraine. Or so her successor insists, who said Friday he had had to ask an Orthodox priest to exorcise Tymoshenko's spirit from his office. "It was very hard to breathe in there," Ukraine's ...

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich will scrap in early May a decree by his pro-Western predecessor that conferred national hero status on a World War Two nationalist leader, a source in his camp said on Friday. Former President Viktor Yushchenko's posthumous honoring of Stepan Bandera, a leader of Ukrainian nationalist forces which fought both the Nazis and Soviet ...

Russia's Irek Zaripov won his third gold medal of the 2010 Paralympics on Wednesday when he took victory in the biathlon 12.5km sitting event. Zaripov won in a time of 42min 22.4sec, adding the gold to his 2.4km pursuit and 15km cross-country title. The 26-year-old finished ahead of compatriots Vladimir Kiselev (42:29.9) and Roman ...

Alexi Salamone is focused on winning gold for his USA men's sledge hockey team at the Paralympics, but the star forward is also looking ahead to 2014 when Sochi will host the Games. The trip will have special meaning for the Buffalo native as he was born in the Ukraine when it was part of the Soviet Union, 14 ...