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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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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Rosstat estimates that Russian-EU trade was worth $236 billion in 2009, which makes the EU Russia’s biggest trading partner. But with many of Russia’s Eastern European partners becoming members of the EU, the bloc’s policy toward Russia plays a crucial role. “Since the 27 member states of the European Union share a single market and a single external border, they also have a single external trade policy,” said John Clancy, the EU spokesman for trade. On a multilateral level, in the World Trade Organization, and with individual trading partners, EU member states speak and negotiate collectively. Read the story here. Mar 31, 2010 at 17:06 |
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PARMA, Ohio -- Freshly shaved loaves of ham, salami and head cheese sit stacked high in the deli case at Lviv International Foods in Parma. Cakes with fluffy frostings line bakery shelves under spotless glass. Five kinds of European butter wait side-by-side in the cooler. Any day looks like an ethnic holiday at this sparkling Ukrainian grocery store. And with the unusual concurrence this year of both Orthodox and non-Orthodox Easters this Sunday, things will only get busier. Read the story here. Mar 31, 2010 at 16:54 |
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A Ukrainian energy engineering consultant was ordered on Monday to pay more than US$580,000 for improperly gaining access to information that allowed him to profit from a company's lower-than-expected earnings announcement. Mar 30, 2010 at 23:12 |
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Two workers were injured as methane exploded at the Krasnoarmeiskaya Zapadnaya +1 coalmine in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Tuesday, a mining authority source told Itar-Tass. In all, there were 21 workers in the disaster zone. Mar 30, 2010 at 22:38 |
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Communist Party officials in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhya say they are planning to erect a monument to former Soviet leader Josef Stalin in early May, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. Oleksandr Zubchevsky, a Communist Party deputy on the Zaporizhzhya city council, told RFE/RL on March 29 that the idea for the Stalin monument came from World War II veterans. Mar 30, 2010 at 22:35 |
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More than 25,000 persons affected by the Chernobyl nuclear accident in Ukraine have been treated in Cuba in the last 20 years, reported Julio Medina, director of the Cuban health program for the victims of the disaster. Mar 30, 2010 at 21:34 |
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The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn, wants either to resume the former partnership program with Ukraine or "build something different." "It depends upon the results of the mission we have now in Ukraine," the IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said in an interview with RIA Novosti. "It depends also upon the good will of the government to implement the necessary reform." Mar 30, 2010 at 21:32 |
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For the second time in two years a revered religious icon has made its way to the former USSR, complements of local artist George Fesenko-Navrotsky. Last year Fesenko, president of the N.C. chapter of the Congress of Russian Americans, sent a woven wall hanging of the Byzantine icon, “Vladimir, Mother of God,” to the newly enthroned head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill. And last month he sent another, one of 12 icons he is producing, to former Ukraine prime minister Yulya Tymoshenko. Mar 30, 2010 at 21:26 |
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The main contractor working on construction of the Lviv stadium for the 2012 European Championship is to be removed after criticism of delays at the site by UEFA president Michel Platini, a top cabinet official said Tuesday. Mar 30, 2010 at 21:17 |
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Three formerly oppositional deputies have joined the coalition in Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada /parliament/. Two of them used to be members of the Yulia Timoshenko Bloc, and one was affiliated with the Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defence bloc, the parliamentary speaker, Vladimir Litvin, said on Tuesday. Mar 30, 2010 at 20:46 |
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Ukrainian government officials have until Friday to provide a report on bilateral gas talks in Moscow, opposition leaders said in Kyiv. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych dispatched a team to Moscow last week to discuss the problematic gas relationship with Moscow. Read the story here. Mar 30, 2010 at 19:52 |
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The Institute of World Policy announced the Top-10 most efficient ambassadors, from those working within Ukraine and Ukrainian ambassadors serving abroad in 2009. [Alyona Getmanchuk, Director of the Institute of World Policy]: "Both our ambassadors and foreign ambassadors should know that we monitor, watch, and carefully observe what each member does and how." Read the story here. Mar 30, 2010 at 19:43 |