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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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OAO Gazprom, Russia’s state-run gas exporter and producer, began rerouting some supplies to Europe through the Nord Stream pipeline and another across Belarus as it tries to end reliance on Ukraine after disputes over prices. “We are at the start of a big move to redistribute gas transit volumes from Ukraine to our Beltransgas unit and new undersea pipelines,” Sergei Kupriyanov, a Gazprom spokesman, said on March 30 in an e-mailed statement. Gazprom, the world’s biggest gas producer, is acting on a pledge to halt dependence on Ukraine to deliver the fuel to the European Union, where Russia is the biggest single supplier. Arguments over the cost of gas sold to Ukraine led to periodic halts in supply to Europe during the past six years. Read more here. Mar 30 at 21:37 |
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A landmark Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union was initialed on March 30 in Brussels after five years of negotiations, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said. The agreement, aimed at establishing political association and economic integration between the European Union and Ukraine, is to replace the 1998 Partnership and Co-operation Agreement as a basis for bilateral relations. The document, totaling more than 1,000 pages, was initialed by Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin and Managing Director of the European External Action Service for Russia, Eastern Neighborhood and the Western Balkans Miroslav Lajcak. Read more here. Mar 30 at 20:50 |
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Oksana Makar fought for her life, but the 18-year-old victim of rape and attempted murder whose grisly injuries shocked Ukraine succumbed to her injuries. On 9 March, Makar, a resident of Mykolaiv, was raped, strangled and left for dead at a construction site, her body having been set on fire. She spent 10 hours with her body slowly burning, calling for help, until she was discovered. Two of the three men who committed the crime were initially let go. According to news reports, they are well-connected – but a wave of public anger in Ukraine caused the police to "rethink" the situation, and all have been placed in custody. Now that Makar is dead, they are being charged with murder. Read more here. Mar 30 at 18:58 |
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Russia raised the stakes on March 30 over its efforts to take control of Ukraine’s gas-pipeline system, as it started diverting gas supplies to Europe away from the former Soviet republic. But Moscow has yet to play its most powerful card that could put an end to the saga about gas transit through Ukraine. Ukraine said earlier on March 30 that Russia had almost halved gas-transit volumes through its pipeline system to Europe in recent days. “This is only the beginning,” a Gazprom spokesman said not long after, adding that lowering volumes was part of a move to redirect gas from Ukraine to the Nord Stream pipeline and through Belarus. Read more here. Mar 30 at 18:44 |
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The Vatican's doctrinal office has confirmed the excommunication of four priests expelled from the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, who asserted themselves as rivals to its bishops. "These priests continue to challenge ecclesiastical authority, causing moral and spiritual damage, not only to the Basilian Order of St. Josaphat and the Greek-Catholic Ukrainian Church, but also to this Apostolic See and the Catholic Church as a whole,” the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said March 29. Read more. Mar 30 at 08:49 |
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DONETSK, Ukraine - A Ukrainian teenage girl died Thursday three weeks after being set on fire in a gang rape attack by youths which shocked the nation and raised doubts about the competence of police. Oksana Makar, 18, was raped by three men in their early 20s, strangled with a cord, burned and left for dead in an attack in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolayiv, investigators have said.
Read more here. Mar 30 at 08:18 |
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Ukrainian authorities have shut down a long-running forum that was used to trade tips on writing malicious software, a sign the country's law enforcement may be watching hackers more closely. Administrators for the forum, VX Heavens, wrote that its servers were seized on March 23 for allegedly creating and intending to sell malicious software programs, a violation of Ukraine's criminal code. The website called the accusation "absurd" but said it couldn't offer services with the pending court case. Read more here. Mar 30 at 07:58 |
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The names of Ukraine’s jailed opposition leaders overshadow the country’s European aspirations. This deplorable results summed up the two-day Council of Europe’s co-rapporteurs’ visit to oversee implementation of the Assembly’s January resolution, calling on Ukraine to amend the Criminal Code and decriminalize some articles. Read more here. Mar 30 at 07:44 |
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MOSCOW — The crime was shocking enough: an 18-year-old woman gang-raped, half strangled, set on fire and left for dead. But what sent hundreds of Ukrainians into the streets and rushing to her hospital to give blood this month was a police decision to free two suspects rumored to be politically connected. The uproar has shaken the upper echelons of Ukraine’s government. On Thursday, three weeks after the attack, the young woman died. Viktor Yanukovych, the president, and Nikolai Azarov, the prime minister, were among the first to offer condolences — along with vows that the perpetrators would be brought to justice. Read more here. Mar 30 at 07:10 |
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Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe currently visiting Kyiv met on March 29 with Ukraine's jailed former interior minister Yuriy Lutsenko, his wife said. Lutsenko, an ally of jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, was arrested in December 2010. In late February he was sentenced to four years in prison for illegally employing and giving an apartment and pension to his former driver as well as of overspending government funds during Police Day celebrations in 2008 and 2009, when he was in office. A court will consider his appeal in May. Read more here. Mar 29 at 18:20 |
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Ukraine says it's working with NATO on anti-terrorism measures for this summer's Euro 2012 European Football Championships, to be played out across Ukraine and Poland. Ihor Dolhov, the head of Ukraine's mission to NATO, told the Interfax news agency his country's Security Service and the soccer host committee will have anti-terror exercises with members of the Western alliance next month at the city's Olympic National Sports Complex. Read more here. Mar 29 at 17:47 |
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Vice Prime Minister / Social Policy Minister Serhii Tihipko thinks that the conviction of Yulia Tymoshenko, a former prime minister and current leader of the Batkivschyna All-Ukrainian Association party, was right, he has announced in an interview with Ukrainska Pravda webzine. "If the court has decided there is a violation, and I hear independent law specialists saying there is really a violation, then, probably, the court's decision was right," said Tihipko when asked about his attitude towards the conviction of Tymoshenko. Read more here. Mar 29 at 09:47 |
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The 18th International Tourism Exhibition 2012 UITT "Ukraine - travel and tourism" is opened Wednesday, March 28 in Kyiv. UITT, which is the largest and most reputable travel industry event in Ukraine, has chosen the motto for this year as: “The whole world – an Exhibition”. Read more. Mar 29 at 07:09 |
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Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych faces enormous political and economic challenges at home, but his trip to South Korea for a summit on nuclear security provided a brief respite. Ukraine’s effort to get rid of its stockpile of highly enriched uranium was one of the most significant achievements reported by the participating nations. Highly enriched uranium, or HEU, is widely used in nuclear power plants, research facilities and, in a modified form, hospitals. But it’s also dangerous as fuel for a nuclear weapon. Read more here. Mar 28 at 21:57 |
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Ukraine chose Baker Tilly International to value state-owned NAK Naftogaz Ukrainy’s natural gas pipelines and storage sites under a plan to manage the assets with Russia and the European Union. Baker Tilly’s Ukrainian unit won a tender for the work, Naftogaz, based in the capital Kyiv, said on March 28 in an e-mailed statement. Read more here. Mar 28 at 20:25 |