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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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EU remains deaf to talk of membership, but talks on association agreement to continue. The European Union and Ukraine are to hold their annual summit next Friday (Dec. 4) in Kyiv, amid uncertainty over the Ukraine's domestic politics and its energy relations with Russia, which are of crucial importance to the rest of Europe.This will be the EU's first bilateral summit after the Lisbon treaty enters into force on 1 December, but it will still take place in the traditional format, with the rotating presidency – Sweden – representing the whole EU. Read the story here. Nov 26, 2009 at 18:40 |
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Kostiantyn Matvienko writes: I happened to watch the opening of a park that symbolized victory over builders. It was on Peizazhna Alley in Kyiv’s oldest part, right over the legendary village of Honchari-Kozhumiaky (“Potters and Tanners”), already disfigured by architects and builders, practically at the territory of the National Historical Museum, near the foundations of the Tithe Church, the 400-year-old lime tree of Metropolitan Petro Mohyla, the remnants of Princess Olha’s rotunda, and an ancient rampart of the Prince Kyi era. There are about 300 “hot spots” in Kyiv, where bitter clashes continue between the builders and the Kyivites who defend their parks, children’s playgrounds, woodlands, islands, and river banks. Read the story here. Nov 24, 2009 at 18:36 |
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Taras Kuzio writes:In 2008 presidential candidate Arseniy Yatseniuk was seen as the new face of Ukrainian politics supporting a pro-Western foreign policy; but, this was before Ukrainians and Westerners had seen his program. Since last summer, his election program has positioned Yatseniuk as the candidate supporting an isolationist-nationalist third way, without deference to either Moscow or Brussels and Washington. Read the story here. Nov 24, 2009 at 08:26 |
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Jamestown Foundation opinion: Moscow backtracks from strategy to bypass Ukraine’s gas transit system
Vladimir Socor writes:Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko declared on November 16 that the Nord Stream pipeline on the Baltic seabed would not be used for diverting gas volumes away from Ukraine’s transit pipelines to Europe. In effect, this statement acknowledges that the Nord Stream pipeline, from Russia directly to Germany, is not a Ukraine-bypass project (Interfax, November 16). Read the opinion here. Nov 24, 2009 at 08:02 |
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Myroslava Gongadze, widow of slain journalist Georgiy Gongadze, writes that those longing for strong-armed rule may outnumber those who want to preserve their imperfect democracy. Read the opinion here. Nov 24, 2009 at 07:51 |
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After making it to the quarter finals of the last World Cup, Ukraine failed to qualify for the next global soccer championships when it lost at home to Greece last week. Ukraine was in the “group of death” together with England and Croatia, and beat out the Croats in retribution for the 2002 European qualifiers, when the Croats did the same to the Ukes. When Slovenia beat Russia, the number of Slavic countries going to the finals fell even further. Croatia vs Ukraine? Slovenia vs Russia? Obviously, the soccer gods saw it fit to limit the number of Slavs in South Africa to Serbia, Slovenia, and Slovakia: three of thirteen countries who will take to the pitch for Europe in the 32-country global finals. Nov 23, 2009 at 12:34 | Stephen Bandera |
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Shall we start the bidding at Hr 200? Or would Hr 8,000 mark one out as being truly patriotic? That’s the range of prices the Ukrainian Football Federation charged fans to attend the most important game in the national side’s season, the second and final leg of the World Cup qualifying playoffs against Greece. It was a disastrous decision that had and will have disastrous consequences for Ukrainian football, though the wider reverberations may be felt by Ukrainian society as a whole, beyond the 1-0 match loss. Nov 19, 2009 at 12:33 | Roland Sylvester |
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Europe should overcome dividing lines and prejudices of the past and work towards a common security platform for the entire Euro-Atlantic region, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrey Nesterenko. He added that Russia will continue promoting the idea of European security treaty which would help to attain this goal. In his weekly address to the media, Andrey Nesterenko touched upon Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s Address to the Federal Assembly, his participation in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Singapore and other news and issues. Read the story here. Nov 18, 2009 at 17:42 |
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Tom Balmforth writes: Much-delayed and with political problems still unresolved, Nabucco looks like an increasingly untenable project. Read the story here. Nov 18, 2009 at 09:37 |
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Ellen C. Bryson writes:If the United States really wants to reset relations with Russia, then it needs to be willing to stand up to Russia’s attempts to walk over its neighbors. Without the chance to recover from the recession and sort out its own political problems free from Russian intervention, Ukraine will never be able to progress beyond its Soviet past and become a wealthy and solidly-democratic state. Nov 18, 2009 at 09:28 |
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IHS Global Insight: Russia, EU agree on early warning system for potential energy supply disruptions
With the threat of a new Russia-Ukraine gas dispute growing by the day, Russia and the European Union (EU) Nov. 17 announced plans to sign an agreement on an early warning system that would cover deliveries of coal, oil, and electricity as well as gas. Nov 17, 2009 at 18:54 |
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On Saturday I decided to take a break from Ukrainian politics and “escape” from Ukrainian politics by going to see the film “2012." What better way to “escape” from reality than going to see a film about the end of the world!? Nov 17, 2009 at 14:13 | Taras Kuzio |
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Taras Kuzio writes:Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s 2010 presidential election program is entitled “Ukraine will be victorious. Ukraine that is you” and includes a strong emphasis on Ukraine’s integration into Europe. Tymoshenko’s election program is available, as with other registered presidential candidates, on the Central Election Commission web site (http://www.cvk.gov.ua/vp_2010/kandydaty/index.php). Read the story here. Nov 17, 2009 at 10:10 | Taras Kuzio |
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Anne Applebaum writes: I woke up Monday morning with a sore throat, and mentioned this to a friend. "Swine flu?" he asked, oinking a few times for emphasis. No, as far as I can tell I do not have swine flu, the virus more formally known as H1N1. But even if I did, I'm not sure that anyone around me would take it very seriously. Read the story here.
Nov 17, 2009 at 10:05 |
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Ukrainian politics is like Mexican telenovelas. The characters are the same for years and years: charming but cunning Tymoshenko, dull but pragmatic Yanukovych, idealistic but weak Yushchenko, plus the whole plethora of old faces from Litvin to Tihipko. Yatsenyuk is the only new face, campaigning with smart khaki billboards, but with surprisingly old-fashioned views. However, the 2010 election campaign is different from the past elections in Ukraine. The change is not in personalities, but in subtleties of their rhetoric. These are the first elections in a decade when none of the main contenders comes forth with a strong pro-EU message. Until now all political parties that mattered made European integration part of their party programmes. Failing to do that meant less popularity among the Ukrainian population, buying into everything European, from evroremont (expensive and well-done apartment renovation) to evrogroby (lacquered wooden coffins). Read the story here. Nov 16, 2009 at 10:47 |