Scuffles broke out in the Ukrainian parliament last week as PMs fought over the election of the new session’s parliamentary speaker. Attempts to block the vote ultimately failed, and the election of leading Orange coalition figure Arseniy Yatsenyuk as speaker makes the return of Yulia Tymoshenko to the prime minister’s office appear increasingly likely More

The chances of a renewed Orange coalition succeeding now appear to rest almost entirely on the ability of Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko to co-operate. Alternatively, any deterioration in their smouldering love/hate relationship could spell the end for Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic ambitions More

As one of the world’s top oil and gas companies, Shell is now looking to Ukraine as a new market to which it can offer a wide range of its products and services. However, it was the country’s potential as producer of natural gas and condensate that made the company take its first major step into Ukraine More

Ukraine’s status-crazy business community have predictably gone wild for the hottest new handset to hit the global mobile phone market. The fact that Apple’s “revolutionary” iPhone is not yet officially available on the Ukrainian market has not stopped the stylish device appearing all over the country More