Section: BBC (The United Kingdom)
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcasting statutory corporation. The BBC is headquartered at Broadcasting House in London The BBC is the world’s oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees, with about 23,000 staff.
The BBC is a corporation, independent from direct government intervention, with its activities being overseen by the BBC Trust ( formed on 1 January 2007). Trustees are appointed by the British monarch on advice of government ministers.
BBC has an office in Kyiv since 1993.
Russia-Ukraine road blockades hit trade
Hundreds of goods lorries are stuck on roads in Russia and Ukraine because of tit-for-tat economic blockades. …read more Source:...
Russia drill brings troops near Ukraine
Russia holds military exercises involving 8,500 troops, with dozens of ships and aircraft, in a southern region near rebel-held eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
VIDEO: The couple trapped on Ukraine’s frontline
The elderly couple who will not leave the town of Peski on Ukraine’s frontline despite shelling damaging their house. …read more Source:...
Ukraine teeters a few steps from chaos
Ukraine teeters just a few steps from chaos and instability …read more Source:...
Strauss-Kahn hired by Ukraine tycoon
Former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn is joining the board of a bank owned by one of Ukraine’s richest men. …read more Source:...
Ukraine minister quits over corruption
Ukraine’s economy minister Aivarus Abromavicius resigns over the slow pace of reform and says he does not want to provide “cover” for corruption. …read more Source:...
UK extradition of Ukrainian man begins
Extradition proceedings begin against a Ukrainian man suspected of murder and accused of playing a leading role in a criminal operation to smuggle people to the UK. …read more Source:...
People smuggling suspect held
A Ukrainian man suspected of murder and people smuggling into the UK is arrested in Battersea, south-west London. …read more Source:...
Row over Ukraine city’s new name
Ukrainian campaigners are at loggerheads over the renaming of Kirovohrad. …read more Source:...
UK to send first aid kits to Ukraine
The UK is to send 3,500 first aid kits to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon announces, as conflict continues with pro-Russian separatists. …read more Source:...
