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Ukrtelecom to provide Internet access based on fiber optic cable to residential buildings OJSC Ukrtelecom this year plans to provide the Internet access service based on fiber optic cables to residential buildings (FTTB).
Sep 1, 2009 at 11:57 | Interfax-Ukraine
Ukraine, EU advance in agreeing draft law on functioning of Ukrainian gas market Only five issues remain to be settled in a draft law on essential principles for the functioning of the natural gas market that is being drawn up by the interagency coordination group for the realization of a joint declaration signed after the EU-Ukraine Investment Conference on the modernization of the Ukrainian gas transit system, according to a Ukrainian official.
Sep 1, 2009 at 11:53 | Interfax-Ukraine
Putin arrives in Poland Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in Gdansk on Tuesday where he is due to hold bilateral talks with his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk and to attend the events marking the anniversary of the start of World War II.
Sep 1, 2009 at 10:46 | Interfax-Ukraine
Lavrov: USSR break-up, current economic crisis linked The collapse of the Soviet Union and the current global economic crisis are linked, said Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Sep 1, 2009 at 10:44 | Interfax-Ukraine
Alexei Bayer writes: The Western territories of the Russian Empire — Poland, Ukraine and Belarus — have paid the heaviest toll for the upheavals of the past 95 years. But Russia also suffered tremendously, not only in its two wars with Germany, but also in the Civil War and domestic terror campaigns. Relentless killing lasted until Josef Stalin’s death in 1952, but the social crisis that afflicted Russia under communism and endures to this day has also been a killer.
Sep 1, 2009 at 08:21
Vladimir Ryzhkov writes: The new history textbook is intended to ideologically prepare an entire generation of young people to loyally and complaisantly serve the Russian ruling class. The problem is that Putin’s state capitalism model is fundamentally incompatible with democracy and an open society. Even the smallest amount of transparency and accountability threatens to undermine Putin’s hold on power.
Sep 1, 2009 at 08:18
Poland marks anniversary of World War II beginning GDANSK, Poland (AP) — Polish leaders marked the 70th anniversary of World War II in a somber ceremony at dawn Tuesday on the Baltic peninsula where the conflict began, hailing those who gave their lives to defeat Nazi Germany.
Sep 1, 2009 at 08:03
The U.S. Justice Department initiated the proceedings against John Kalymon, who officials said was a member of the Nazi-sponsored Ukrainian Auxiliary Police in occupied Lvov, Ukraine, during World War II, Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer of the Justice Department's Criminal Division said Monday in a news release. The charging document was filed Thursday in U.S. Immigration Court in Detroit. It alleged Kalymon, as a UAP member, shot Jews and killed at least one. It also charged he partici
Sep 1, 2009 at 07:58
Roger Boyes in Berlin writes: Will Vladimir Putin, the Russian Prime Minister, apologise for Stalin’s collaboration with Hitler in carving up Poland? Will he signal a new candour about Russian treatment of the Poles? Or will he simply scratch open old wounds between the two countries when he visits Poland?
Sep 1, 2009 at 07:54