Let`s step back from the details of the match for the moment and look at the bigger picture. Spartak - Dynamo is regarded as one of the classic derbies of world football, certainly among those old enough to remember the Soviet era...

Now that Russia has humiliated Georgia with a punishing military offensive, it may shift its attention to reining in pro-Western Ukraine, another American ally in the former Soviet Union...

Weeks before bombs started falling on Georgia, a security researcher in suburban Massachusetts was watching an attack against the country in cyberspace... According to experts, it was the first time a known cyberattack had coincided with a shooting war...

Ukraine is a rare western ally on post-Soviet turf and has much at stake in Tbilisi’s bloody standoff... Gaining control of Crimea, even in a peacekeeping role as in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, would fully secure Russia’s influence...

The fighting should be a deafening wake-up call to the West. Our fatal mistake was made at the Nato summit in Bucharest in April, when Georgia`s attempt to get a clear path to membership of the alliance was rebuffed...

If it is not the prelude to a real war, it risks being mistaken for one—and in a corner of Europe where Western and Russian interests could clash nastily. The talk of war has been in the air for months. But in the past two weeks six people have been killed...

There comes a time in the life of an oligarch when spending money becomes more important than making it. And for Victor Pinchuk, the controversial oligarch and Ukraine’s second-richest man after Rinat Akhmetov...

FC Dynamo Kyiv president Ihor Surkis admitted that he was "reaching for my tranquilisers" last night as his side came close to bowing out of Europe against Drogheda United FC...

"Ukraine is a separate topic for Solzhenitsyn, whose mother was Ukrainian... He sought to reject his Ukrainian half and uphold his Russian nationalist half. In this sense, he lost his stature..."

Industrialised nations want to avoid over-dependence on imported, cleaner gas, given security of supply concerns. Ukraine is a case in point, now switching to domestic coal after neighbouring Russia halted...

Andriy Shevchenko has blamed injuries for his inability to make an impression at Chelsea, but the Ukraine star is convinced he can write his name into the club’s history books if he steers clear of fitness problems...

Mr Medvedev has recently begun mimicking Mr Putin’s tough guy television style, lacing his official-sounding pronouncements with slang and street jargon. There was also plenty of finger jabbing, fist clenching and table slamming...