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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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Anna darts gleefully around the two sparsely-furnished rooms situated through an archway off a steep street that climbs up from Kyiv's Independence Square. She is a general showing off her new headquarters. "This is going to be our training room for our Euro strikes," she says. Read more here. Yesterday at 07:38 |
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The 40 year old two-time heavyweight champion has set his sights on Kyiv's mayoral position and hopes to focus more on the worsening situation in his native Ukraine. Last month, the pro-democracy heavyweight told Spiegel Online: "Ukraine is a wonderful country with great potential and hospitable people... Unfortunately, we are observing some very negative political developments. Like Yulia Tymoshenko, one opposition leader after another is being placed in prison. That damages Ukraine's image in the eyes of the world... Ukraine is transforming itself into an increasingly authoritarian regime." Read more here. Yesterday at 07:15 |
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Conflict for conflict’s sake is what some anti-gay campaigners in Ukraine were apparently seeking as yet another LGBT parade failed to march through Kiev. As Ukraine's Gay Forum head called the action off, hooligans cornered the man to sort him out. The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community of Ukraine were diverted from their gay pride route on Sunday, as half a thousand of nationalists and anti-gay activists arrived at the parade’s meeting point in downtown Kiev. Some ultra-right and religious campaigners were merely holding placards reading “No to gays!” but police reports said nationalists were firm in their resolve to attack the march. Read the story here. Yesterday at 01:52 |
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There is no denying that searching for a way to avoid a speeding or a parking ticket is a universal behavior that transcends both society and race. A pair ofRussianswho were driving their car through the Ukraine was caught speeding by the local cops. As you would imagine, the two men wanted to dismiss the ticket so they came up with the bright of idea of speaking in English, convinced that the Ukrainian police officers would not understand a word they said. Read the story here. Yesterday at 01:20 |
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Ukraine's education minister is in hot water after saying that women at the highest levels of study in the country's university system are less attractive than other Ukrainian women. Read the story here. Yesterday at 00:57 |
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They are shocking pictures which gay people still face a daily struggle against prejudice in some parts of the world.With a group of three violent thugs kicking and jumping on him, Svyatoslav Sheremet lies forlornly on the ground.He is being attacked because he is the head of the organisation Gay Forum of Ukraine. Read the story here. Yesterday at 00:36 |
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Ukraine's Euro 2012 organisers on Monday urged local police to reform their poor image for heavy-handedness and take a softly-softly approach with thousands of soccer fans during next month's championship. "We hope our police will be service-oriented and tolerant with fans. We have expressed this message many times to our colleagues in the Interior Ministry," Euro 2012 director Markian Lubkivsky told reporters. Read more here. 2 days ago at 17:21 | Reuters |
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The Sadok Ukrainian Dance Ensemble is about to say “pryvit” (welcome) as it celebrates its 13th anniversary with a dance performance at the Vernon Performing Arts Centre May 27. Billed as the Okanagan Ukrainain Festival, the Vernon-based dance troupe has invited special guests, the Pokotillo Ukrainian Dancers of Kamloops and the Stepanchuk Family Singers, to perform at the event. Read more here. 2 days ago at 10:16 |
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has ruled out the idea of jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko being released for treatment abroad ahead of next month's Euro 2012 soccer championships, which Ukraine and Poland are hosting. His remarks come as Germany has offered to provide medical care to the ailing ex-premier and again hinted at a possible boycott by Chancellor Angela Merkel of matches played in Ukraine once the tournament kicks off in co-host Poland on June 8. Read more here. 2 days ago at 09:02 |
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Editor's Note: The following story was published online by Russia Today, a Kremlin-funded information organization that has been criticized for its anti-Western and anti-Ukrainian propaganda. 2 days ago at 07:51 |
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Yulia Tymoshenko, the former Ukrainian prime minister, opposes any boycott of the Euro 2012 football tournament to protest her conditions of imprisonment, a Polish parliamentarian who visited her said Sunday. Read more here. 3 days ago at 19:18 |
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on Sunday nixed the idea that jailed and ailing ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko be released for treatment abroad ahead of next month's Euro football tournament. Read more here. 3 days ago at 14:26 |
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A few weeks ago, I created a profile and logged onto VKontakte, the most popular Russian-language social network. I entered some personal information, uploaded an especially flattering picture of myself, then used the search function to find all single women between 25 and 35 in Ukraine who were online at the moment — around 7:30 p.m. Ukraine time. There were more than 10,000 available, all sorted by a rating system which seemed to be directly proportional to the amount of pictures a woman had posted of herself in a string bikini, and how good she looked in said bikini. Read more here. 3 days ago at 14:20 |
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Sporting boycotts are back in fashion. Azerbaijan hosts the Eurovision Song Contest on 26 May, with Armenia predictably absent. Russia is beset by Circassian activists claiming that the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics are desecrating their ancestral homeland. But Ukraine is on the receiving end of the bitterest current campaign, in the run-up to the European Championship football finals beginning on 8 June. May 18 at 19:40 | Interfax-Ukraine |