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Ukraine's lead official in its preparations to co-host Euro 2012 refutes allegations that he was linked to companies awarded multimillion-dollar contracts for the massive upgrade of Kiev's Olympic Stadium. Ukraine's deputy prime minister and infrastructure minister Borys Kolesnikov told Ukraine media: "I am not, and will not be, neither directly nor through relatives, a stakeholder in companies that perform contract work for Euro 2012." Read the story here.