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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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Hats off to the Regionnaires for pulling off the impossible! The Euro 2012 soccer games in Ukraine and Poland seemed like a sure bet. Infrastructure would be built, tourists would come, and Ukraine’s economy—and image—would get a boost. True, it was likely that the democratic opposition would take advantage of the games to publicize its plight, but that seemed like a potentially minor disruption of a public relations coup for President Viktor Yanukovych and his Party of Regions regime. Read the story here 3 days ago at 10:06 | Alexander J. Motyl |
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Angela Merkel has not had a good weekend. She was close to being isolated at the Group of Eight summit. Barack Obama, François Hollande and David Cameron all ratcheted up the pressure on Germany to go for “growth” in Europe. This the Germans suspect, with some reason, is code for pouring more German money into southern Europe, tolerating higher inflation and monkeying around with European Central Bank independence. What with the euro and the G8, Merkel has more than enough to worry about on the international stage. But, right now, she is also having a row with Ukraine. Once again, there is a football angle, since the Ukrainians are about to co-host the European championships. But the argument is actually about human rights and, more specifically, about the Ukrainian government’s treatment of Yulia Tymoshenko – the former prime minister, who has allegedly been beaten up in prison. Read more here. 3 days ago at 09:13 |
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With chances of new investment dwindling and external debts coming due, Ukraine reforms its energy sector whilst taking criticism over the preparations for Euro 2012. May 17 at 19:16 | Victor Tkachuk |
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Should Ukraine follow the example of Europe or Russia in its relations to homosexuals in Ukraine? For years, all Ukrainian politicians have been highlighting their intentions to bring Ukraine towards Europe and away from its Soviet past. May 17 at 11:20 |
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Editor’s note: Timothy Ash is global head of emerging markets research at the Royal Bank of Scotland in London. This article is an abridged version of a note circulated to investors after a visit to Ukraine. May 17 at 10:58 | Timothy Ash |
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Yulia Tymoshenko's seven-year jail sentence was outrageous when it was handed down last October, and it looks even more so now that the former Ukrainian Prime Minister says she was tortured and beaten while on a hunger strike in prison last month. The good news is that European leaders are starting to react. German Chancellor Angela Merkel called President Viktor Yanukovych a "dictator" last Friday and will reportedly join a growing roster of politicians who are boycotting next month's Euro 2012 soccer tournament, which Ukraine is co-hosting with Poland. Mr. Yanukovych was forced to postpone a summit of European Presidents in Yalta over the weekend after most of the attendees withdrew in protest. Read the story here. May 17 at 09:58 |
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Viktor Yanukovychdeserves no reward for his heavy-handed rule as president of Ukraine. His term has brought increasing corruption, a concentration of power in the presidency and show trials of political opponents. The most worrying has been the case of Yulia Tymoshenko, a former prime minister who now languishes in prison on a seven-year sentence. May 15 at 07:00 |
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The Regionnaires must be getting desperate. When the vast majority of Ukraine’s population thinks of you as thugs, crooks, and vandals a few months before an election you can’t possibly win, there’s only one thing to do. No, not go straight, silly. You go to Burson-Marsteller, of course, a self-styled “leading global public relations and communications firm” that has a special relationship with the world’s rogues. You pay B-M a ton of money and you hope they can remove your stench. Andrew Rettman of the EUobserver broke the story on April 27: Robert Mack, a senior manager at Burson-Marsteller, told EUobserver: “Our brief is to help the Party of Regions communicate its activities as the governing party of Ukraine, as well as to help it explain better its position on the Yulia Tymoshenko case.” One of his staff said it was hired “several weeks ago.” (Tip to Mr. Mack: a political party isn’t supposed to have a “position” on what the Yanukovych regime insists is a case for independent courts, but no matter.) Read the story here. May 14 at 09:36 | Alexander J. Motyl |
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Let us see, what can Ukrainians perform collectively right? Theater and pageantry come to mind. Natalka Poltavka, a late 18th century traditional folksy love drama, playing on the theme “All’s well that ends well”, still captures imagination. May 14 at 09:09 | Boris Danik |
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Following the failed attempt on the part of both the United States and Ukraine to provide Ukraine with a NATO Membership Action Plan at the April 2008 Bucharest NATO Summit, Ukrainian membership in NATO has become a dormant if not a non- issue. May 13 at 17:30 | Askold S. Lozynskyj |
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The German Embassy in Kyiv recently hosted a lecture by a matriculating Polish-German history student, known for extremist positions. The lecture was brazenly entitled “[Stepan] Bandera – Fascist.” (Bandera was a Ukrainian nationalist leader who lived from 1909-1959, when a Soviet agent killed him in Munich, Germany). May 9 at 16:41 | Askold S. Lozynskyj |
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The operation began at 4 a.m. on April 28, 1947. Over a period of roughly three months, some 20,000 soldiers of the Polish People’s Army and other police forcibly cleansed the ethnic composition of the southeastern regions of Poland, relocating some 150,000 Ukrainians to the northeast. May 9 at 16:20 | Askold S. Lozynskyj |
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Interview with Arkady Moshes, Director of Russia and CIS Programs at the Finish Institute of Political Studies in Helsinki. May 6 at 12:40 | Kyiv Post |
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It had to come to this, of course. When thugs throw an innocent person in jail, how can they resist showing her who’s boss? How can they resist beating her up? They can’t. And, in Viktor Yanukovych’s Ukraine, they didn’t. It happened on Friday, April 20th, shortly after 9 p.m., and the victim of the Regionnaire assault was the recently incarcerated opposition leader and former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko. Here’s her description of the beating: Read the story here May 4 at 11:16 | Alexander J. Motyl |
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Led by Germany, a number of European countries have mounted diplomatic pressure onUkraine to release key opposition leader, former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, but the concerted effort may widen the already growing gap between Ukraine and the European Union without bringing desirable results. May 2 at 10:50 | Lilit Gevorgyan |