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“It was seven or 10 of them. I could not defend myself as the attackers had pepper spray and I had to protect my eyes. I fell to the ground and was kicked. When I got up, they ran away.”
Svyatoslav Sheremet, the leader of Ukraine’s Gay Forum, explaining to Ukrainian news website gazeta.ua, how he has assaulted after announcing on May 20 that he is cancelling the Gay Pride Parade because of threats to participants' safety.
Svyatoslav Sheremet, the leader of Ukraine’s Gay Forum, explaining to Ukrainian news website gazeta.ua, how he has assaulted after announcing on May 20 that he is cancelling the Gay Pride Parade because of threats to participants' safety.
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The Ukrainian president's office quoted President Victor Yushchenko as expressing anxiety in a television program on Thursday at the growth of domestic and foreign state debts and complained that the state would have to pay huge sums in 2010 to service them. Oct 2, 2009 at 09:42 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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DUBLIN (AP) — The future direction of the European Union was hanging in the balance Friday as Ireland's voters decided whether to ratify the EU Lisbon Treaty the second time around. Oct 2, 2009 at 09:41 |
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TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — The Georgian president says a report sponsored by the European Union has proven his country was right in its war with Russia. Oct 2, 2009 at 09:35 |
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NAIROBI, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Militaries in north and south Sudan are engaged in an arms race that risks plunging the nation back into civil war, a study said on Thursday. Oct 2, 2009 at 09:34 | Reuters |
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ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — Turkmenistan is set to resume negotiations with Azerbaijan over a disputed sector of the energy-rich Caspian Sea, Turkmenistan's leader said Thursday in a statement that could encourage Western hopes of gaining access to the region's vast oil and gas reserves. Oct 2, 2009 at 09:34 |
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A new encyclopedia documents the history of the Holocaust in the former Soviet Union. The book is a project of the Russian Holocaust Center and Rosspen publishing house. Ilya Altman, leader of the project and co-chair of the Russian Holocaust Center of Moscow; Alla Gerber, president of the Moscow Holocaust Foundation; and Anatoly Podolsky, director of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, presented the encyclopedia Thursday at a seminar on the Holocaust. Oct 2, 2009 at 09:32 |
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Last season's UEFA Cup champion Shakhtar Donetsk beat Partizan Belgrade 4-1 on Thursday to continue its good run in the new Europa League competition. Oct 2, 2009 at 09:31 |
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Pavel Korduban writes: The Pechersky district court in Kyiv on September 22 banned "any unfair advertisement" against Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. This prompted Viktor Yanukovych, her main rival in the run-up to the January 17 presidential election, to accuse Tymoshenko of infringing freedom of speech. Ironically, it was Yanukovych's team that was accused of this ahead of the previous election in 2004. Oct 2, 2009 at 09:26 |
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Anshel Pfeffer writes: It is high time for a Jewish boycott of Ukraine. Perhaps not a total boycott, at least not at first, but at the very least some symbolic gestures. To start, in order to protest the Kyiv municipality's plan to build a hotel on Babyn Yar (in preparation for the Euro 2012 football championship), the Israeli Football Association should announce today that it is going to boycott the games. Oct 2, 2009 at 09:20 |
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Ukrainian Journal cited Bohdan Sokolovskiy, President Victor Yushchenko's top energy aide, as saying that Ukraine will not resume direct natural gas imports from Turkmenistan until 2015 when the Central Asian country plans to double gas output. Sokolovskiy said in a statement: “We must consider the year of 2015 as the target year.” This is a setback for Ukraine, which has been seeking to resume direct imports of gas from Turkmenistan much earlier, in order to reduce dependence on Russian gas. Oct 2, 2009 at 09:11 |
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Ukraine, the first country in the region to line up for the IMF bailout, will probably contract 14 percent this year and expand 2 percent in 2010, the fund said. Ukrainian output slumped 20.3 percent in the first three months and 17.8 percent last quarter. The economy may shrink as much as 12 percent this year, the deepest decline since 1996, according to the Economy Ministry. Oct 2, 2009 at 09:09 |
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Ukraine’s Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works (YeMZ), one of the world’s largest producers of steel billets, signed a Joint Implementation Project (JIP) deal under the Kyoto Protocol with ING Bank seeking to reduce emissions of greenhouse gas (GHG). According to preliminary estimates, the project will help the company to reduce GHG emissions into the atmosphere by about 1.5 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent by 2012, the company said in a statement. Oct 2, 2009 at 09:06 |
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Russian oil major Lukoil on Thursday threatened to shut down its Ukrainian oil refinery after the country’s oil shipper suggested switching pipeline routes to enable massive imports of Caspian Sea crude. UkrTransNafta said it wanted to use Odessa-Kremenchuk section to deliver Caspian crude to UkrTatNafta, Ukraine’s largest oil refinery, suggesting that Lukoil may deliver its crude to its Odessa refinery via Brody-Odessa pipeline. Oct 2, 2009 at 09:04 |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is putting his personal powers of persuasion on the line in a pitch in Copenhagen in support of Chicago's Olympics bid. Oct 2, 2009 at 08:57 |