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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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The governments of Ukraine and Cuba are in the final stages of planning for a treatment center for cancer patients in Ukraine, and are discussing to jointly produce cancer drugs, Ukrinform reported. The cancer hospital and joint drug production would provide Cuban medical services and technology a window on the European market. Read more here. Mar 2 at 20:46 |
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A cultural information center will be opened in Saint Petersburg as a part of foreign diplomatic institution of Ukraine. The decision was made by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, and corresponding changes to the list of foreign diplomatic institution have introduced. The document has been worked out by the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine with a purpose of strengthening Ukrainian presence in the Russian Federation and strengthening Ukraine's positions in realization of its foreign interests. Read more here. Mar 2 at 19:25 |
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The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has reassured worried parents that high-school students graduating a month earlier this year, due to preparations for the Euro-2012 football championship, will not be drafted straight into the military and will not be hindered from going to university in 2012. “The graduation from high-schools a month earlier, in May 2012 [which is normally in June], does not mean that fresh graduates will be drafted into the military and lose the chance to enroll into higher education,” Defense Minister Dmitry Salamatin said on Thursday. Read the story here. Mar 2 at 16:48 |
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Ukrainian government had allocated 27.5 million U.S. dollars from the state budget to improve mining safety standards, the country's coal mine safety watchdog said Thursday. "The funds will be used to build and to upgrade the safety systems of 16 major coal-mining enterprises and establishment of safety and training centers for miners," the State Service of Mining Supervision and Industrial Safety said on its website. Read more here. Mar 2 at 09:16 |
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Not so long ago the media space was filled with information on "cheese war" with Russia, and Belarus allied with Russia on this issue. And against such background a new incident appears: the State veterinary and sanitary service of Ukraine temporary bans starting on March 1 the import of milk and dairy products from Belarus, as well as meat of animals, amenable to African swine fever, mainly pork. The Ukrainian veterinary service reported Wednesday that during February the state sanitary control department revealed systematic violations of the veterinary and sanitary requirements of Ukraine. In particular, the maximal levels of concentration of veterinary drugs were exceeded in the Belarusian dairy products. Read more. Mar 1 at 19:49 |
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A prison sentence handed to former the Ukrainian internal affairs minister is more evidence the country doesn't respect human rights, critics say. Yuriy Lutsenko was found guilty of embezzlement and abuse of office Monday in Kyiv's Pecherskyy District Court and was sentenced to four years in prison, fined and banned from holding public office, Ukraine officials announced. Read more here. Mar 1 at 14:13 |
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Starting on 1 March Ukraine bans import of meat and dairy from Belarus because of African swine fever virus threat. The Chief State Inspector of Veterinary Medicine of Ukraine Ivan Bisiuk temporarily banned the import from Belarus of animals that can get contaminated with African swine fever virus, as well as products and raw materials produced of these animals, the press-service of the Ukrainian State Veterinary service reports. Read more here. Mar 1 at 11:42 |
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Ukraine expelled 13,000 illegal migrants from the country last year, the Prosecutor General's office reported Wednesday. More than 310,000 foreigners are currently on the books of Ukraine's Migration Service, the annual report said. Most of them come from the Commonwealth of Independent States, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Read more here. Mar 1 at 08:04 |
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Billboards bearing a picture of Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin appeared on the streets of the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporozhye, Unian news agency reported on Wednesday. Twenty posters with the inscription “Stable Russia - Stable Ukraine” appeared in the run up of the presidential elections in Russia slated for March 4. Read more here. Feb 29 at 21:52 |
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BRUSSELS - Ukraine has given a political thumping to the EU ambassador in Kyiv in what is amounting to a bad week for relations with post-Soviet neighbours. Its foreign ministry on Tuesday (Feb. 28) summoned him to give explanations after he criticised President Viktor Yanukovych at a business conference. It also published a statement saying he does not know how to do his job. Read more here. Feb 29 at 21:17 |
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The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office will consider the extradition of the suspects in an alleged plot to assassinate Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin only after it receives an official request from Russia, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday. Russian state television said on Monday that Ukrainian security services had arrested the two suspects in the Ukrainian port of Odessa last month. Read more here. Feb 29 at 15:04 |
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Ukraine's WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko announced Wednesday he would run for mayor of Kyiv for a second time. Out of the boxing ring, Klitschko is an active politician and heads the liberal Udar party in his homeland. The 40-year-old lost the 2006 vote to current mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi, campaigning on an anti-corruption platform. Read more here. Feb 29 at 11:45 |
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The president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe decried Tuesday the conviction of the former interior minister of imprisoned ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko. In a trial condemned by Tymoshenko's supporters as politically motivated, ex-interior minister Yuriy Lutsenko, in detention since his December 2010 arrest, was found guilty Monday of abusing his powers while in office and sentenced to four years in jail. Read full report here. Feb 29 at 09:55 |
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The Czech Republic has reacted with concern and apprehension to the verdict of a Ukrainian court that sentenced former minister of internal affairs Yuriy Lutsenko to four years in prison for embezzlement and abuse of power, the Czech Foreign Ministry told CTK Monday. Read the story here. Feb 29 at 07:57 |
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One day after the shock announcement that a plan to kill Vladimir Putin had been thwarted, details are emerging about the alleged plot. And some of those details are rather bizarre, prompting skeptics to say the facts don't quite add up. Read the story here. Feb 29 at 06:47 |