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Crunch Gear: In Communist Russia, air force makes snow fall on outskirts of town The Mayor of Moscow, Yury Luzhkov, will seed clouds around the city in order to encourage them to dump their frosty white payloads in the outskirts, thereby sparing the lives of thousands of hard-core city-dwelling Russian drunks and making it easier for the Mercedes and BMWs go to and from the apartments of plutocrats to the Gucci store. Drunks and plutocrats on the outskirts are SOL.
Oct 19, 2009 at 23:22
Politics grows as key emerging markets driver As global markets come to the end of the broad recovery from last year's crash, political risk is developing as key to which emerging markets underperform -- with Romania, Thailand, Turkey and Latvia first to feel the pinch.
Oct 19, 2009 at 23:16 | Reuters
Naftogaz' Eurobond holders agree to restructuring Ukrainian state energy firm Naftogaz, battered by higher gas import prices and the country's deep recession, said on Monday investors in its $500 million Eurobond had agreed to its restructuring terms.
Oct 19, 2009 at 22:36 | Reuters
Official Wire: Slovakia prepares for next Ukraine-Russia gas war The Slovak republic is better prepared to handle a potential regional gas crisis resulting from tensions between Russia and Ukraine, analysts said.
Oct 19, 2009 at 22:30
Lukashenko: Kyiv, Minsk have many interests in common Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has said that the development of Ukrainian-Belarusian relations is not aimed against anyone and that Kyiv and Minsk share the same view on many issues.
Oct 19, 2009 at 22:20 | Interfax-Ukraine
Constitutional Court set to rule on presidential law Oct. 20 The Constitutional Court will announce its decision in the case involving the constitutionality of certain provisions of the Law on Presidential Elections on October 20.
Oct 19, 2009 at 21:45 | Ukrainian News
Belgrade to be under looser security during Medvedev visit that during Biden stay Security measures in Belgrade during a planned visit by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will be looser than those taken when U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was in the Serbian capital, a source in the Serbian organizing committee for highest-level visits said.
Oct 19, 2009 at 21:34 | Interfax-Ukraine
Lytvyn: Ukraine needs fair presidential elections to restore international image Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn believes that Ukraine needs to hold fair presidential elections to restore the country’s international image.
Oct 19, 2009 at 21:30 | Interfax-Ukraine
Ukraine ’s new foreign minister pays working visit to Sweden Ukrainian Foreign Minister Petro Poroshenko went on Saturday on a working visit to Sweden, where he took part in the international high-level conference on the Eastern Partnership initiative.
Oct 19, 2009 at 21:27 | Interfax-Ukraine
Barbra Streisand auctions items for charity LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A robe worn by Barbra Streisand in ''The Way We Were'' sold for nearly $6,000 and an outfit from ''Meet the Fockers'' went for $3,500 at an auction of hundreds of the entertainer's personal items.
Oct 19, 2009 at 20:55
RIA Novosti: Ukraine children's camp director wants full probe into abuse claims SIMFEROPOL, October 19 (RIA Novosti) - The director of a major children's holiday camp on Ukraine's Black Sea coast has said that he wants to be questioned as soon as possible over allegations that children were sexually abused at the camp.
Oct 19, 2009 at 20:26
Police officers detained in Lozinsky homicide probe The Pecherskyi District Court of Kyiv has ordered detention of two officers from the Holovanivskyi District Police Department (Kirovohrad region) for two months as part of the investigation of the criminal case that was filed against former parliamentary deputy Viktor Lozinskyi of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc on suspicion of deliberately inflicting the severe bodily harm that resulted in the death of Valerii Oliinyk, a resident of the Kirovohrad region.
Oct 19, 2009 at 20:20 | Ukrainian News
Mahera: No reason not to register presidential candidates for violating campaign rules The Central Electoral Commission's Deputy Chairman Andrii Mahera sees no reason to refuse to register presidential candidates for violating election campaign rules. Mahera announced this to journalists.
Oct 19, 2009 at 20:15 | Ukrainian News
93 percent of holders of Naftohaz Ukrainy's eurobonds approve restructuring terms More than 93% of the holders of the Naftohaz Ukrainy national joint-stock company's Eurobonds have approved the terms of restructuring the bonds. The press service of the company announced this to Ukrainian News.
Oct 19, 2009 at 20:10 | Ukrainian News
Kyiv-based Credo Ltd. audit firm will audit reports on the fulfillment of the consolidated financial plan of National JSC Naftogaz Ukrainy for 2009.
Oct 19, 2009 at 19:28 | Interfax-Ukraine