Ukraine's Viktor Yanukovych will find himself in a tricky situation. He will have to deal with the criticism from radical Ukrainian nationalists, who accept no compromise for the Russian language and want the Ukrainian to be the only one official language in the country. At the same time, the issue of the official status for the Russian language is one of the most important questions for those people who voted for Yanukovych

Has the policy of the United States of America changed substantially in Latin America? Judging by Washington’s close friend and ally, Alvaro Uribe of Columbia, no, it has not. Murder of opposition activists, disappearances, threats and of course torture are the modus operandi in fashion in Columbia, where the USA has built up a considerable military presence. So much for the USA’s “humane” foreign policy.

Safety for passengers of the Moscow metro is a very serious issue. The biggest problem is a possibility to fall down on railway tracks, especially during rush hours. About 150 people fall off the metro platforms every year. Suicides make a half of such incidents. Over 1,500 people were injured in the Moscow underground in 2008

The European Commission gives a serious consideration to the appearance of an alternative to International Monetary Fund in the Old World. The talks about the establishment of the European IMF are to be finished by July 1 of the current year. The haste most likely arose against the background of the crisis in Greece, which unveiled the vulnerability of the financial system in the European Union

Chinese woman Zhang Ruifang, aged 101, has become a star in her Linlou village, Henan province. The elderly woman grew a horn on her forehead, above her left eye a year ago. Now the woman grows another horn – above the right eye. The woman says that she does not feel any discomfort about the horn. Her six children fear that their mother would eventually turn into a goat

Specialists are concerned about the psychological state of children who like playing violent video games. A recent study proved that the more a teenager is used to killing virtual characters, the more dangerous he or she may become in the real world. Parents need to take serious measures to reduce their children’s aggression, psychologists say

Major western media outlets again draw attention to a pre-fabricated lie. Thus, they respond to imperialist interests against our country. While the vaccination campaign against poliomyelitis occurs in Cuba, for example, which preserves the health of more than half a million children and in devastated Haiti, hundreds of Cuban doctors reaffirm their humanistic spirit in the struggle for life, malicious headlines make an effort to orchestrate a counterrevolutionary campaign for Guillermo Fariñas Hernández.

The Kosovo Security Force (KSF), the pretentious modern and revised name of the KLA, and the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo (KFOR) have restored relations, a day after members of the security force showed their weapons in public. Kosovo Security Force (KSF) members took part in a March 5 ceremony celebrating the terrorist group which fought the Serbian army and police, as well as unarmed civilians, in the 1990s. The KLA has maintained that they will never allow themselves to be disarmed, as violence, burnings, rapes, beatings, terrorism and ethnic cleansing continue unabated in the renegade Serbian province that was commandeered by Albanian drug and people trafficking mafiosos.