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Rapid TV news: EuroNews adds 4 new languages, including Ukrainian 24-hour news channel ‘euronews' is adding Lithuanian, Romanian, Serbian and Ukrainian services, alongside the channel's existing eight 24/7 languages. Read the story here.
Nov 30, 2009 at 19:39
UPI: Naftogaz talks gas prices, Gazprom balks Russian energy giant Gazprom has not responded to a request to revise the pricing mechanism for Ukraine's gas, officials at Ukrainian utility Naftogaz said. Oleg Dubina, the chief executive of Naftogaz, and Gazprom chief Alexei Miller met last week to discuss amendments to a January gas contract. Read the story here.
Nov 30, 2009 at 19:25
London Guardian: Who won in Ukraine? Bandits As Ukraine approaches its first presidential election since the Orange Revolution in 2004, disappointment runs deep. A recent survey shows that 75% of Ukrainians believe the leaders of the street protests, which overturned a rigged ballot and catapulted Victor Yushchenko to the presidency, used it for their own ends and betrayed their supporters. Read the story here.
Nov 30, 2009 at 19:08
AllAfrica.com: How Ukraine plots to implicate Nigerian pastor Lagos — The Nigerian government has been alerted of a plot by some elements of the Ukrainian government to frame a Nigerian pastor in Kyiv, Ukraine, Mr. Sunday Adelaja, for alleged fraud and treason. Mayor of the city of Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, Lenoid Chernovetskiy described the current ordeal of the Nigerian pastor as an indication of political repression that may have been designed to whittle the support base of Adelaja. Read the story here.
Nov 30, 2009 at 18:35
London Evening Standard: The law catches up with 'Ivan the Terrible' at last Mira Bar-Hillel writes: I once met John Demjanjuk. We did not speak but the memory will haunt me for ever. It was July 1993, five years after the Ukrainian peasant-turned-SS trooper was sentenced to death in Israel for being “Ivan the Terrible”, a notoriously sadistic guard at the Treblinkadeath camp, where 870,000 Jews were gassed. Read the story here.


We remind that Demjanjuk goes on trial in Germany today.
Nov 30, 2009 at 13:18
Russia Profile: Russia’s stake in Ukrainian elections Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met his Ukrainian counterpart and candidate in the upcoming presidential election Yulia Timoshenko, ostensibly to discuss gas issues. He ended up giving Timoshenko broad political endorsement as a Ukrainian leader Russia can do business with. Will Moscow strengthen its hand in Ukraine after the presidential election next year? Read the story here.
Nov 30, 2009 at 12:02
Edmonton Journal: Ukrainian famine still brings tears Richard Warnica writes:Millions of ethnic Ukrainians starved to death in the Soviet Union in 1932-33. Today, many, including the Canadian and Alberta governments, consider them victims of a Soviet genocide, a deliberate attempt by the Stalin regime to stamp down Ukrainian nationalism by withholding food. Others, including the Russians and some scholars, dispute this characterization. Read the story here.
Nov 30, 2009 at 10:11