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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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Gay England football fans travelling to Ukraine for Euro 2012 have been warned to keep a low profile for their own safety. The advice came after Kyiv's first ever gay pride parade was cancelled on Sunday amid fears of violence from far-right thugs. Television pictures showed Svyatoslav Sheremet, head of the Gay Forum of Ukraine, being kicked and jumped on by a group of men after the event was stopped. Read more about here. 2 days ago at 20:34 |
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The General Secretary of Ukraine’s National Olympic Committee has been filmed offering to sell several thousand pounds worth of Olympics tickets to an undercover reporter posing as a ticket tout. Volodymyr Gerashchenko, who has been head of Ukraine’s National Olympic Committee since 1997, told the reporter from BBC London News he had up to 100 tickets to sell. Read more here. 2 days ago at 20:17 |
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Topless activists from a Ukrainian women's rights group were arrested after grabbing the European Championship trophy while it was on public display in the southeast of the country. Security guards moved in to stop Inna Shevchenko, 21, an activist in the Femen group, who grabbed hold of the 60cm-high cup while it was being exhibited in a central square in Dnipropetrovsk. Read more here. 2 days ago at 18:14 |
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Ukrainian billionaire Dmitry Firtash considering investing more than €1.7-2bn in the country’s petrochemical business over the next 7-8 years. Firtash says the money will go towards increasing production methyl, propylene, ethylene, polystyrene, caprolactam and chemical fibres at DF Holding. DF Holding is a financial conglomerate, owned by Firtash, which includes companies such as Rivneazot, Styrene and Azot. Read more here. 2 days ago at 13:18 |
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Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal says he regrets that the Gay Pride parade in Kiev was cancelled because of security concerns. “The threat posed by anti-gay protesters fits with a political climate which has Ukraine drafting legislation that is seen as potentially discriminatory against gays.” The Netherlands will address the issue at the end of this month during the EU-Ukraine talks on the constitutional state. Read more here. 2 days ago at 12:51 |
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At first sight, few people would mark the group of topless young women protesting in the streets of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, as outspoken advocates or feminists. At first sight, few people would mark the group of topless young women protesting in the streets of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, as outspoken feminists. Garlands of flowers adorn their waist-length hair, strategically thrown forward to cover their bare breasts. But the black graffiti-style slogans that cover their arms and bellies make it crystal clear: “Ukraine is not a brothel” and “Women Power”. Read more here. 2 days ago at 09:15 |
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James Clark, of Ardmore, called for clarification on an Associated Press story about Yulia Tymoshenko, former prime minister of Ukraine, who was jailed after losing her political post.Tymoshenko went on a hunger strike at her prison in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, after claiming she was beaten and otherwise mistreated. Read more here. 2 days ago at 09:00 |
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KARACHI: Governor of Sindh Ishrat ul Ebad has said that exchange of delegation between Pakistan and Ukraine is pivotal to enhance trade figures between the two nations, which are not up to the mark at present. Speaking to a high powered delegation from Ukraine at the Governor House here on Monday, he said that even though there are common interests and high potential exists between the two countries, trade figures do not reflect the same. Read more here. 2 days ago at 08:15 |
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Anna darts gleefully around the two sparsely-furnished rooms situated through an archway off a steep street that climbs up from Kyiv's Independence Square. She is a general showing off her new headquarters. "This is going to be our training room for our Euro strikes," she says. Read more here. 2 days ago at 07:38 |
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The 40 year old two-time heavyweight champion has set his sights on Kyiv's mayoral position and hopes to focus more on the worsening situation in his native Ukraine. Last month, the pro-democracy heavyweight told Spiegel Online: "Ukraine is a wonderful country with great potential and hospitable people... Unfortunately, we are observing some very negative political developments. Like Yulia Tymoshenko, one opposition leader after another is being placed in prison. That damages Ukraine's image in the eyes of the world... Ukraine is transforming itself into an increasingly authoritarian regime." Read more here. 2 days ago at 07:15 |
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Conflict for conflict’s sake is what some anti-gay campaigners in Ukraine were apparently seeking as yet another LGBT parade failed to march through Kiev. As Ukraine's Gay Forum head called the action off, hooligans cornered the man to sort him out. The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community of Ukraine were diverted from their gay pride route on Sunday, as half a thousand of nationalists and anti-gay activists arrived at the parade’s meeting point in downtown Kiev. Some ultra-right and religious campaigners were merely holding placards reading “No to gays!” but police reports said nationalists were firm in their resolve to attack the march. Read the story here. 2 days ago at 01:52 |
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There is no denying that searching for a way to avoid a speeding or a parking ticket is a universal behavior that transcends both society and race. A pair ofRussianswho were driving their car through the Ukraine was caught speeding by the local cops. As you would imagine, the two men wanted to dismiss the ticket so they came up with the bright of idea of speaking in English, convinced that the Ukrainian police officers would not understand a word they said. Read the story here. 2 days ago at 01:20 |
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Ukraine's education minister is in hot water after saying that women at the highest levels of study in the country's university system are less attractive than other Ukrainian women. Read the story here. 2 days ago at 00:57 |
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They are shocking pictures which gay people still face a daily struggle against prejudice in some parts of the world.With a group of three violent thugs kicking and jumping on him, Svyatoslav Sheremet lies forlornly on the ground.He is being attacked because he is the head of the organisation Gay Forum of Ukraine. Read the story here. 2 days ago at 00:36 |
