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Pandemic politics The Halloween health scare continues to haunt the nation well into November as people are dying from flu and other respiratory diseases, as politicians play the blame game.
Nov 5, 2009 at 22:11 | Staff reports
Swine flu outbreak heats up presidential election fever Presidential contenders are trying to outcompete each other using the epidemic for self-promotion and condemnation of the opponents.
Nov 5, 2009 at 22:08 | James Marson
Klitschko: Chernovetsky runs Kyiv ‘all for personal gain’ Vitali Klitschko, Ukraine’s heavyweight boxing champion and opposition leader in the city council talks about Kyiv’s major problems and personal ambitions.
Nov 5, 2009 at 22:00 | Katya Gorchinskaya and Yuliya Popova
Ukrainian employee of U.S. Embassy in Kyiv suspected of involvement in visa-fraud scheme A ring of 20 people in the United States and five in Ukraine was uncovered that allegedly helped Ukrainian nationals to obtain visas to America in a fraudulent way.
Nov 5, 2009 at 21:57 | Mark Rachkevych
Neighbors remember famine Visiting Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko commemorated the victims of mass famine in Ukraine in 1932-33 on Nov. 4.
Nov 5, 2009 at 21:53
Business Sense: Automakers hit hard, providing consumers with bargains all over The year 2009 has been difficult for car dealers. A near-total freeze of credit has turned a booming industry into a crippled one. This year, dealers expect to sell 130, 000 cars, a more than four-fold decrease on last year’s 623, 000.
Nov 5, 2009 at 21:48 | Bogdan Prots
Record-sized tanker docks at Ukrainian port The Kassos Warrior cargo tanker docked on Oct. 31 at Yuzhny Port, one of the country’s biggest on the Black Sea coast.
Nov 5, 2009 at 21:46
EU warns Yushchenko over Russian gas payment, IMF The European Union urged Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko on Nov. 5 to prevent any delays in payments for Russian gas that might affect gas flows to EU citizens, and expressed concerns over disruption of cooperation with the International Monetary Fund.
Nov 5, 2009 at 21:43 | Reuters
Agence France Presse: Ukraine epidemic deaths hit 95, outbreak eases Health authorities in Ukraine said Thursday the death toll from an outbreak of flu and respiratory infections had risen to 95, but added the epidemic showed signs of easing. "We have 633, 877 people suffering from flu and acute respiratory infections," and among these cases "95 people are dead", Deputy Health Minister Zinovy Mytnyk said. Read the story here.
Nov 5, 2009 at 21:29
Really sick Political agendas once again outstripped the nation’s need for strategy and reassurance in the time of panic over swine flu pandemic.
Nov 5, 2009 at 21:27 | Editorial
Bad medicine Price caps on prices for medication should be canceled. The pharmaceutical industry should be kept in check with more careful regulations.
Nov 5, 2009 at 21:24 | Editorial
Prevention missing in health-care remedies Doctor Victor Yatsyk says Ukrainian medicine should make more emphasis on prevention.
Nov 5, 2009 at 21:22 | Victor Yatsyk
Who built Berlin Wall? Most Russians don't know MOSCOW, Nov 5 (Reuters) - More than half of all Russians do not know who built the Berlin Wall, one of the most enduring symbols of the Cold War, an opinion poll showed on Thursday
Nov 5, 2009 at 21:19
Flu panic stoked by political malpractice Celebrity doctor Yevhen Komarovsky talks about prevention and treatment of viral infection, and gives a thorough analysis of how political incompetence and ensuing panic harms the nation.
Nov 5, 2009 at 21:12 | Yevhen Komarovsky
Vox Populi with Kateryna Grushenko What do you think of the way government authorities are reacting to the flu epidemic?
Nov 5, 2009 at 21:07 | Kateryna Grushenko