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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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Beijing, China; Wellington, New Zealand; Washington, D.C.; Kyiv, Ukraine. Other than being national capitals, they are all cities where I biked to work every day. Today at 12:55 | Llywelyn Graeme |
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It’s 100 days to go to the start of the London 2012 Paralympic Games. Today at 12:34 | Leigh Turner |
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The Ukrainian TV personality who tries to out-Borat Borat got what he wanted: face time withWill Smith. In fact, he got more than that. He got face-smacking time. The morning news TV performer -- I won’t call him a reporter -- named Vitalii Sediuk was evidently just up to his usual "hey-look-at-me-messing-with-this-famous-person" hijinks when heaccostedSmith on the red carpet at the Moscow premiere of "Men in Black III." Read the story here. Yesterday at 23:09 |
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Throughout his career, Rupert Murdoch built a fortune by marrying tantalizing content with superior distribution. I can see why he’s pissed. 2 days ago at 11:39 | Greg Satell |
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A feast of British art is heading for Kyiv. 2 days ago at 11:36 | Leigh Turner |
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Hats off to the Regionnaires for pulling off the impossible! The Euro 2012 soccer games in Ukraine and Poland seemed like a sure bet. Infrastructure would be built, tourists would come, and Ukraine’s economy—and image—would get a boost. True, it was likely that the democratic opposition would take advantage of the games to publicize its plight, but that seemed like a potentially minor disruption of a public relations coup for President Viktor Yanukovych and his Party of Regions regime. Read the story here 2 days ago at 10:06 | Alexander J. Motyl |
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Angela Merkel has not had a good weekend. She was close to being isolated at the Group of Eight summit. Barack Obama, François Hollande and David Cameron all ratcheted up the pressure on Germany to go for “growth” in Europe. This the Germans suspect, with some reason, is code for pouring more German money into southern Europe, tolerating higher inflation and monkeying around with European Central Bank independence. What with the euro and the G8, Merkel has more than enough to worry about on the international stage. But, right now, she is also having a row with Ukraine. Once again, there is a football angle, since the Ukrainians are about to co-host the European championships. But the argument is actually about human rights and, more specifically, about the Ukrainian government’s treatment of Yulia Tymoshenko – the former prime minister, who has allegedly been beaten up in prison. Read more here. 2 days ago at 09:13 |
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Sporting boycotts are back in fashion. Azerbaijan hosts theEurovision Song Contest on 26 May, with Armenia predictably absent. Russia is beset byCircassian activists claiming that the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics are desecrating their ancestral homeland. But Ukraine is on the receiving end of thebitterest current campaign, in the run-up to the European Championship football finalsbeginning on 8 June. In 2007, when the tournament was awarded to Poland and Ukraine as co-hosts, the‘Orange Revolution’was only three years old. There was still hope that Ukraine would change for the better. Poland had joined the EU in 2004, Ukraine had not; but the tournament was supposed to symbolise common heritage and cooperation across the EU border, and an bright future for an ever-expanding Europe. (Though one reason why Ukraine and Poland got the nod was Italy’s match-fixingCalciopoli scandalthe previous season). Read the story here. May 19 at 12:28 | Andrew Wilson |
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Editor's note:Andrey Kurkov was born in St Petersburg in 1961. Having graduated from the Kiev Foreign Languages Institute, he worked as a journalist, did his military service as a prison warden in Odessa, then became a cameraman, writer of screenplays and author. His books are published in English byHarvill Seckerin the UK andMeville Housein the U.S. (CNN)-- If democracy had existed in ancient Egypt, then not a single pyramid would not have been built. Read the story here. May 19 at 11:54 |
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A feast of British art is heading for Kyiv. First up is a major new exhibition of sculptorAnish Kapoor. Kapoor has beenone of my favourite artists since I saw his 1991Turner Prize-winning exhibit at the oldTate Gallery(this was before theTate Modernopened in 2000). Kapoor also has a work, called “Turning the World Inside Out” inside the British Embassy in Berlin. I used to walk past it every day when I worked there from 1999-2002. Kapoor’s exhibition at thePinchuk Art Centre in Kyivfrom 19 May to 30 September is his first solo exhibition in eastern Europe and contains, in addition to other existing and new works (“12 monumental concrete mounds”) 2009′s famous “Shooting into the Corner”, which fires red wax across a room. May 19 at 11:37 | Leigh Turner |
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Arsen Avakov, former Kharkiv Oblast governor, ally of imprisoned opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko and likely successful candidate in this year’s parliamentary elections, has been arrested in Italy. The Ukrainian authorities initiated criminal proceedings against him at the beginning of the year over “abuse of power” and he was announced on the Interpol wanted list soon after. May 18 at 16:38 | Halya Coynash |
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The average person in any democracy is likely to be very vague about what exactly their Security Service does. They will be much clearer about what it should not be doing. Most of the activities of Ukraine’s SBU [Security Service] over the last two years would fall into the second category. There was alarm in early February when media magnate Valery Khoroshkovsky was replaced as head of the SBU by Russian-born, KGB-trained Igor Kalinin. May 18 at 16:30 | Halya Coynash |
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Albert Einstein once said, “if I had 20 days to solve a problem, I would spend 19 days to define it.” Good advice. May 18 at 13:08 | Greg Satell |
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The images are powerful. May 18 at 12:43 | Leigh Turner |
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Inna Bogoslovska writes: Ukraine is on the right path. May 17 at 21:27 | Inna Bogoslovska |