Ukraine feels “discrimination” from both Russia and the EU as Europe’s richer countries seek gas routes avoiding it and Poland, President Viktor Yanukovych said. Sentiment isn’t much warmer in the U.S. and Europe, where some see recent prosecutions of Kiev officials as a politically motivated witch hunt. After he was elected president, Mr. Yanukovych changed the rules so that he could oust the prime minister, archrival Yulia Tymoshenko, and prosecutors have since charged her and other former officials with crimes. Ms. Tymoshenko...

 Staff reports The United States believed that comments by former Russian President Vladimir Putin challenging Ukraine’s sovereignty were “cause for greater concern” after Russia invaded Georgia.  The concerns were raised in a leaked cable written by Kurt Volker, U.S. ambassador to NATO, and published on the website of Russian magazine Russian Reporter on Nov. 30. The message is undated, but the contents place it around August 2008

Former U.S. President George W. Bush was a "true idealist" who displayed "genuine integrity and political courage," former British prime minister Tony Blair reveals in his memoirs. Detailing the close professional and personal relationship which developed between the two leaders in the wake of the 2001 terror attacks in the U.S. and during the build-up to the Iraq war in 2003, Blair writes that Bush was "very smart" while having "immense simplicity in how he saw the world."