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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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OTTAWA – Liberal member of parliament Borys Wrzesnewskyj (Etobicoke Centre) has once again slammed the Conservative government’s response to ensuring a free and fair presidential election in Ukraine. Currently only four of 15 post-Soviet countries, Ukraine and the three Baltic states, are considered to be democracies. Dec 31, 2009 at 14:37 |
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Taras Kuzio of the University of Toronto has some questions he wants answered from Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko. Dec 31, 2009 at 13:50 | Taras Kuzio |
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One must be lazy to not talk of the crisis nowadays. In a song defiantly titled “Anticrisis”, Seva, a popular Russian Internet rapper, even raps about smiling more and taking chances to free ride as the crisis endures. While in Kiev, an open-air cinema in one of the city’s parks displayed a pop video where a singer and his revealingly dressed female crew insisted on forgetting about the crisis and relaxing. Read the story here. Dec 30, 2009 at 17:38 |
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Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers around the world: Dec 29, 2009 at 22:46 |
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Like a tired Hollywood sequel, the prospect of another gas war in the New Year between Ukraine and Gazprom is even less appetising this time around. Ukraine's economy, estimated by the EBRD to have shrunk by a catastrophic 14 per cent this year, is hanging by a thread. Adding to the instability, the country is about to hold what could be its most fractious election since President Viktor Yushchenko beat his arch-rival, Viktor Yanukovych, in a highly-controversial two-round contest in late 2004. Read the rest of the article here. Dec 29, 2009 at 22:04 |
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Peter Goldring writes: In early November 2004 I was asked by the University of Alberta to be an observer in its Ukraine election transparency and monitoring project for the November presidential runoff election between former prime minister Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Victor Yanukovych. Yushchenko favoured closer ties between Ukraine and the West, while Yanukovych favoured maintaining strong ties with Russia. All these factors -- old rivalries, plus distinct differences in visions for the future of Ukraine -- were harbingers of discord which had a negative impact on the electoral process. Read the story here. Dec 29, 2009 at 13:41 |
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Victor Zoloty,a reader from Mykolaiv oblast,wrote to The Day:Our greatest woe, the woe of Ukraine, is that most of our people are bereft of historical awareness and national self-identity, i.e., patriotism. We are very slowly awakening after the centuries-long slavery. For the first time in the years of independence, we only recently formed, by a narrow margin, a seemingly national-oriented majority in the Verkhovna Rada. Where has it gone? What criteria are the majority MPs guided by? And the rest of MPs and different-level officials are taking an openly hostile attitude to the state.Read the storyhere. Dec 29, 2009 at 12:00 |
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Almost everyone has a favorite list this time of year -- best movies, books, person of the year. For the 7th year, here is my best and worst list comprising governments, individuals, publications and organizations which had an impact on the global Ukrainian community in 2009. Dec 25, 2009 at 15:56 | Oksana Bashuk Hepburn |
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In the last five years, Ukraine has really struggled. The string of crises afflicting the country ranging from the impacts of the Great Recession to its deteriorated relationship with Moscow presented opportunities that could have led to increased solidarity within the political establishment. Instead political egos and the chaotic nature of Ukrainian politics have persevered with decision-makers unable to overcome their corporate and clan differences in order to cross the aisle and combine efforts to stabilize the country Dec 23, 2009 at 17:27 | Danila Bochkarev and Roderick Kefferputz |
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Dec 23, 2009 at 17:17 | Kishor Sridhar
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Dec 23, 2009 at 16:55 | Yuriy Krainiak
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Dec 23, 2009 at 16:49 | Oksana Myshlovska
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Serge Schmemann writes: It is not surprising that Russian reactions to the death of Yegor Gaidar, the wunderkind who had a meteoric rise, and fall, as Communism fell apart, have been divided along the same lines that have divided the country since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Read the story here. Dec 23, 2009 at 11:28 |
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Oxana Pachlovska writes: There are two Europes. One is the historical Europe of ideas, principles, protection of the personality and entire nations, and the years-long struggle for implementing these ideals. The other one is a bureaucratic entity that ensures a more or less unperturbed existence of a newest united Europe, which was born out of this struggle for freedom. But the main thing is that the latter, bureaucratic, Europe is very little interested in the above-mentioned ideals. Anyway, this is its job. Read the story here. Dec 23, 2009 at 09:56 |
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Ukraine holds presidential elections next month, and the outcome is likely to spell the epitaph of the Orange Revolution. The euphoria of 2003-04, when a grand display of “people power” reversed a rigged election, has long faded. The country of 46 million has been one of the hardest hit by the global financial meltdown, suffering a sharp currency devaluation and a projected 14 percent GDP drop this year. Read the story here. Dec 22, 2009 at 16:16 |