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Foreign Policy: Ukraine's phantom flu Julia Ioffe writes about how Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko created a swine flu panic to get herself elected president. Read the story here.
Nov 26, 2009 at 07:26
U.S. Senate confirms new U.S. ambassador to Ukraine WASHINGTON, D.C. - The United States Senate on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, confirmed the nomination of John F. Tefft, of Virginia, a career member of the senior foreign service, class of minister-counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Ukraine.
Nov 23, 2009 at 16:10
Former Ukraine leader's prison sentence reduced SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge onNov. 18reduced the prison sentence for a former Ukrainian prime minister convicted in the United States of corruption in his homeland.
Nov 19, 2009 at 12:25 | Associated Press
Obama commemorates Ukrainian Holodomor remembrance day Seventy six years ago, millions of innocent Ukrainians – men, women, and children – starved to death as a result of the deliberate policies of the regime of Joseph Stalin. Tomorrow, we join together, Ukrainian-Americans and all Americans, to commemorate these tragic events and to honor the many victims, the official White House website cites U.S. President Barack Obama. Read the story here.
Nov 17, 2009 at 14:38
Digital Journal: Deadly Ukraine H1N1 strain to be tested by British scientists With wild rumors circulating across the internet on the nature of the flu strain raging in the Ukraine, a team of British scientists having begun testing the 'super flu' that has been responsible for 189 deaths across the country.
Nov 15, 2009 at 20:18
Bloomberg: Ukraine nurses, patients make masks as flu spreads Nurses and patients at the town hospital in Chernivstsi, Ukraine, came together in an unusual task today: making their own protective masks. Read the story here.
Nov 4, 2009 at 22:43
Agence France Presse: Ukraine calls for help fighting swine flu Ukraine made an urgent appeal to world powers for help battling swine flu on Sunday, after 60 people died from respiratory problems in a week. President Viktor Yushchenko wrote to the United States, the European Union, NATO and Ukraine's neighbours to ask for drugs and equipment to fight the spread of the A(H1N1) virus, according to a statement released by his office. Read the story here.
Nov 2, 2009 at 04:05