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Western Information Agency: Tabachnyk’s attack on Ukrainian is his revenge against Vakarchuk and Yushchenko Education Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk’s decision to cancel state exam in Ukrainian for senior students should not be viewed as his attack on Ukrainian. Rather, it’s a revenge against former Education Minister Vakarchuk and Pres Yushchenko, a noted Ukrainian writer, Andry Kurkov, told Western Information Agency March 31.
Mar 31, 2010 at 23:25
Wall Street Journal: Family, friends remember Moscow bomb victims Maxim Mareyev, a 20-year-old engineering student, forgot his mobile phone at home and turned back to retrieve it. The delay at the start of a long morning commute across Moscow cost him several minutes—and his life. Mr. Mareyev died in a huge explosion Monday as his subway train stood in a station six stops from his destination in the city's Sokolniki district where he worked part time at a bank. That blast and one at another station 40 minutes later, both set off by female suicide bombers, left 39 people dead.Click here to read more.
Mar 31, 2010 at 23:14
ITAR-TASS: Female activists sue Azarov for violation of women’s rights Ukraine’s Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov is sued by the president of the La Strada-Ukraine International Human Rights Protection Centre, Yekaterina Levchenko, and the leader of the non-governmental Information and Consulting Female Centre, Elena Suslova.

Levchenko told reporters on Wednesday that on Monday she had filed a suit in protest against what she claimed was the prime minister’s violation of equal rights for women and men.
Mar 31, 2010 at 23:09
MSN Philippines News: Ukraine says IMF talks stuck on deficit Negotiations on getting urgently-needed International Monetary Fund loans to Ukraine have become stuck over the size of the country's 2010 budget deficit, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday. "We propose (a deficit of) at least 10 percent" of gross domestic product (GDP) while the IMF is asking for less than six percent, the deputy head of the presidential administration, Irina Akimova, was quoted by Interfax as saying.
Mar 31, 2010 at 22:16
EBRD delegation arrives in Ukraine to meet with new authorities A delegation of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) led by Managing Director for Turkey, Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia Olivier Descamps has arrived in Ukraine to learn firsthand about the plans and priorities of the country's new government.
Mar 31, 2010 at 22:13 | Interfax-Ukraine
Solana, Talbott criticize concept of Ukraine's neutrality proposed by Yanukovych The concept of neutrality in foreign policy is a concept of the past, former European Union High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana has said.

He made the remark at a meeting of the Diplomatic Club involving influential Ukrainian politicians, experts and business leaders organized by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and the Arseniy Yatseniuk Foundation in Kyiv on Wednesday.
Mar 31, 2010 at 22:11 | Interfax-Ukraine
Sobolev names members of Ukraine's opposition government Head of Ukraine's opposition government MP Serhiy Sobolev of the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko (BYT) has named members of his government.

In an interview with reporters on Wednesday, he announced that Volodymyr Stretovych, Yuriy Karmazin, Borys Tarasiuk and Oles Doniy (all members of the Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense) are deputy prime ministers in the opposition government.
Mar 31, 2010 at 22:08 | Interfax-Ukraine
Solana suggests Ukraine should play by the rules In the present situation, Ukraine needs to resume cooperation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), abide by the terms of membership of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and carry out political reforms, says former EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana.
Mar 31, 2010 at 20:57 | Interfax-Ukraine
Ukrainian Foreign Minister: Construction of joint Ukrainian-Kazakh oil refinery remains important The creation of a joint Ukrainian-Kazakh oil refinery remains important, but the issue requires detailed consideration, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostiantyn Hryschenko said at a briefing on Wednesday.
Mar 31, 2010 at 20:56 | Interfax-Ukraine
Solana optimistic about Ukraine's development prospects Former European Union High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana has said he is optimistic about Ukraine's prospects for development and reform.
Mar 31, 2010 at 20:54 | Interfax-Ukraine
Tymoshenko: State budget deficit should not exceed 4% of gross demostic product, inflation 10% The draft law on the state budget for 2010 should envisage a budget deficit not exceeding 4% of GDP, and inflation under 10%, ex-prime minister and leader of the opposition bloc in parliament Yulia Tymoshenko said at a meeting of the opposition government on Wednesday.
Mar 31, 2010 at 19:59 | Interfax-Ukraine
Moscow Metro chief says five terror attacks prevented over past 15 years Moscow, March 31 (Interfax) - Four bombs were found and defused and a suicide bombing foiled on the Moscow subway system over the past 15 years, Moscow Metro chief Dmitry Gayev said on Wednesday.
Mar 31, 2010 at 19:40 | Interfax-Ukraine
United Press International: Turkmen gas for Nabucco? ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan, March 31 (UPI) -- The Nabucco natural gas pipeline for Europe will include gas from Turkmenistan in its final plans, the deputy prime minister of Luxembourg said in Ashgabat. Europe aims to break the Russian stranglehold on the regional energy sector through the Nabucco gas pipeline. The 2,000-mile pipeline has substantial political support, though supplier nations have been slow to make firm commitments to the project. Read the story here.
Mar 31, 2010 at 19:32
Scenarios: Suicide bombers attack Russia MOSCOW, March 31 (Reuters) - At least 50 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded over the past three days by suicide bombers who detonated explosives on packed Moscow metro trains and near a school in the southern region of Dagestan.
Mar 31, 2010 at 19:22 | Reuters
Lady Gaga back atop British album charts midweek LONDON, March 31 (Reuters Life!) - U.S. glam pop star Lady Gaga is in pole position to return to the top of the UK album charts, with midweek sales of "The Fame" putting her ahead of last weekend's No. 1, Boyzone's "Brother".
Mar 31, 2010 at 19:00 | Reuters