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“English fans need to know that if they try to mess with Ukrainian women then we will try to mess with them. The sex industry exploits women who are so poor and often uneducated. That is why we are going to try to attack every match.”
Inna Shevchenko, a member of Femen, the women's group that stages topless protests against men who come to Ukraine for sex tourism.
Inna Shevchenko, a member of Femen, the women's group that stages topless protests against men who come to Ukraine for sex tourism.
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Every election after 2004 has been fateful in the literal sense. And with every election, the written and unwritten rules of Ukrainian democracy have continued to take shape. They become less tense, less dirt is dug up and placed on the heads of voters, and their conduct in ever more democratic settings is undoubtedly positive. Jan 30, 2010 at 13:25 | Victor Chumak |
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The inaugural issue of Dilo, the leading newspaper that shaped Ukrainian political thought in western Ukraine for nearly six decades until it was brutally shut down in 1939 when the Soviet Red Army marched into Lviv, led with the headline: “Now is the time for the Rusyns”. (Rusyn was the term used to identify Ukrainians who lived in Galicia, Transcarpathia and Bukovyna under the Hapsburg monarchy.) Jan 30, 2010 at 13:08 | Natalia A. Feduschak |
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All of us have read and heard much about the high level of corruption in Ukraine. Some observers seem regretful; while others – derisive and judgmental. As a former Inspector General of an U.S. government agency, I am the last person in the world to excuse corruption or minimize its over-riding importance in frustrating Ukraine’s yearning for a normal life and a civil society. However, if corruption- like any cancerous growth on a social organism- is to be defeated, we must know its origins and the medium within which it flourishes. Jan 30, 2010 at 12:47 | George Woloshyn |
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My learning experience has been greatly assisted by the Sun Media Word Usage and Style Guide, which, for example, explains when it is acceptable to use profanity. Generally speaking, ask yourself if you would be comfortable having your 10-year-old read what you have written. The guide indicates that people in news stories die, they don’t pass away. And much to my joy, the country is called, “Ukraine, not the Ukraine: Same as not the Canada.” Jan 30, 2010 at 11:26 |
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Yulia Tymoshenko writes: Yanukovych would let oligarchs stay in control of economy, preventing European integration. Jan 28, 2010 at 21:03 | Yulia Tymoshenko |
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Edward C. Chow writes: In this moment of crisis, the next Ukrainian president will have a unique opportunity to invest political capital gained from a national mandate to clean up the energy sector. Jan 28, 2010 at 20:58 | Edward C. Chow |
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Oksana Bashuk-Hepburn writes: Diaspora doesn't understand what most of nation wants. Jan 28, 2010 at 20:56 | Oksana Bashuk Hepburn |
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Why is presidential front-runner Victor Yanukovych refusing to face Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Feb. 1 in a televised debate? Jan 28, 2010 at 20:44 | Kateryna Grushenko |
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Simon Pirani writes:Although Ukraine’s troubles with Russian gas and Russia’s troubles with Ukrainian transit are not over yet, political relations between the two countries should improve after the second round of the presidential election on Feb. 7. Regardless of who wins the final vote, one thing is sure: The country’s next president will be less antagonistic toward Moscow than outgoing President Viktor Yushchenko. Nonetheless, although the two countries avoided a “gas war” this year, the underlying problems that caused previous gas wars remain unsolved. Read the story here. Jan 28, 2010 at 10:19 |
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Pavel Korduban writes:Both Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and her opponent in the February 7 presidential election runoff, the former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, have sought Moscow’s support for their campaigns. Both are expected to be rather pro-Russian compared to the outgoing pro-Western President Viktor Yushchenko, who is perceived in Moscow as a Russophobe. However, Tymoshenko and Yanukovych hold opposite views on the gas trade with Russia. Yanukovych wants to revise the January 2009 gas contracts with Russia and to set up an international consortium to manage Ukraine’s pipelines. Tymoshenko defends the contracts and rejects the consortium. Read the story here. Jan 28, 2010 at 09:58 |
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In 2008, Russia “unfroze” the conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia through outright war and occupation of these Georgian territories. In the latter part of 2009, the United States and Russia each accelerated negotiations on the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, each pressing for some kind of quick results. Meanwhile, the conflict between Russia and Moldova in Transnistria remains the only really “frozen” post-Soviet conflict. Read the story here. Jan 26, 2010 at 12:24 |
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Yulia Tymoshenko, the prime minister of Ukraine, is the better of the two remaining candidates for the country's presidency, after the first round of the election on Jan. 17. She is more liberal, both politically and economically, and more pro-Western than Victor Yanukovich. Read the story here. Jan 25, 2010 at 22:58 |
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In the 1970s, dissident balladeer Alexander Galich wrote a song about a KGB major who loses his passport and facetiously declares that he is Jewish. His commanding officer assumes that he wishes to go to Israel and tells him resentfully: “While all of us here, with blood on our faces / March in lockstep toward the bright future / You’ll be having a ball in Israel / Gorging yourself on matzos, you bastard!” Read the story here. Jan 25, 2010 at 18:01 |
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Adel Safty writes:Ukrainian voters' rejection of the incumbent president does not amount to a rejection of democracy. Read the story here. Jan 24, 2010 at 20:30 |
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Author and columnist Taras Kuzio, a supporter of presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko, has started circulating an online petition to "Stop [Victor] Yanukovych!" from being elected president of Ukraine on Feb. 7. Yanukovych and Tymoshenko are on the ballot. The petition is aimed at encouraging Ukrainians, particularly in western Ukraine, to vote for Tymoshenko. Here is Kuzio's preamble to the online petition: "This petition aims to collect signatures of Ukrainian-Americans and Ukrainian-Canadians who do not wish to see the land of their ancestors and fathers taken over by organised crime and Little Russians. On Feb. 7, Ukrainians will vote in a second of the 2010 presidential elections and the choice is between Tymoshenko and Yanukovych. Some in the Ukrainian diaspora in North America may like Tymoshenko and some do not. This is at this point irrelevant. What is important is to prevent Yanukovych's revenge for his defeat five years ago in which he still believes he was legally elected. A Yanukovych victory would be not only the rejection of everything we want to see about Ukraine as a homeland that preserves Ukraine's unique ethno-cultural heritage and joining the European family of nations. A Yanukovych victory would wipe the slate clean and remove the memory of the Orange Revolution when millions of Ukrainians rose up against corruption, autocracy and a Little Russian project for Ukraine. Read the story here. Jan 24, 2010 at 19:00 |