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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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Ludwigsburg, Germany - Germany began far too late with its search for Nazi war criminals, according to the man responsible for bringing them to justice. 'It is undisputed that not everything was done to legally process the Nazi period,' said Kurt Schrimm, who heads up the German central office for solving Nazi crimes. Read the story here. Dec 30, 2009 at 14:33 |
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Brussels has welcomed assurances from Moscow of an agreement between Russia and Ukraine that will avoid any disruptions to the transit of oil to the European Union. On Tuesday (Dec. 29), the two sides signed a fresh pact for the transit of oil via Ukraine to Europe, with Moscow acceding to a 30 percent increase in fees imposed on the passage of the fuel to EU destinations. Read the story here. Dec 30, 2009 at 12:00 |
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Although Ukraine's gross domestic product (GDP) suffered a decline in 2009 compared with the previous year, the country's economy has touched the bottom and began bouncing back, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said onDec. 29while summing up the government's main achievements in 2009. Read the strory here. Dec 30, 2009 at 10:53 |
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Ukraine’s ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary in Azerbaijan recommends Armenian journalists to stop advising to Ukraine. “I do not think someone in Ukraine is listening to the opinion of Armenian journalists, regularly “advising” Kiev not to sell arms to Azerbaijan, take “a neutral” or “just” position in the Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict”, said Boris Klimchuk at the news conference in the International Novosti news center on Dec. 23. Read the story here. Dec 24, 2009 at 15:21 |
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If there is power in beauty, then the leader of the free world is Yulia Tymoshenko, the 49-year-old prime minister of Ukraine with the porcelain features and a halo of luscious golden braids. She's got the body of Barbie and the face of a Hummel figurine, not to mention the responsibility of leading 46 million people and the No. 1 ranking on the Web site HottestHeadsofState.com. Read the story here. Dec 24, 2009 at 11:38 |
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Ukraine is in talks with Russia to raise tariffs for the transit of Russian oil, President Yushchenko’s aide for energy security Bohdan Sokolovsky told journalists in Kyiv Dec. 22. The talks are expected to be completed by the end of 2009, Sokolovsky says. However, the official would not elaborate on the size of the new transit tariff, citing a commercial secret. Read the story here. Dec 23, 2009 at 16:25 |
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WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--As it prepares to meet with Ukrainian officials over the potential release of additional loan dollars, the International Monetary Fund is bringing in a new mission chief to guide its operations in the country. Athanasios Arvanitis is set to take over for Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, who will move to the IMF's Monetary and Capital Markets department next month. The switch is not linked to current developments in the country, IMF spokeswoman Conny Lotze said. Read the story here. Dec 17, 2009 at 19:53 |
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Opinion pollsshow that a pro-Russia politician will probably win Ukraine’s January 17 presidential election. After the 2004 “Orange Revolution” it seemed as if Ukraine had moved toward the West. But polls strongly indicate that Russia will bring the errant nation to heal in January. And, unlike Georgia, it seems that Ukraine won’t require a military campaign to be reconquered by Moscow. Read the story here. Dec 17, 2009 at 12:40 |
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A famine that killed millions in the Soviet Union in the 1930s cannot be described as a genocide that targeted the Ukrainian people, the Council of Europe has said. A member of the Russian delegation to the Council's Parliamentary Assembly, or PACE, said the word genocide was removed from a draft report on the famine put forward by Ukraine. Read the story here. Dec 17, 2009 at 12:03 |
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A group of representatives of the Bulgarian Diaspora in Ukraine has visited Sofia for meetings with Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and Bozhidar Dimitrov, Minister for Bulgarians Abroad. They announced on Dec. 16 that they plan to send an open letter to Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov, the Prime Minister, and to the Parliamentary Speaker, Tsetska Tsacheva, to alert them to their allegations of being bullied by the local authorities in Odessa, Ukraine, where they are based. Read the story here. Dec 17, 2009 at 11:23 |
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“Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists,” the Ukrainian billionaire, oligarch and art collector Victor Pinchuk told Bloomberg News last week. “That’s why we do the prize: to discover new talent.” Dec 16, 2009 at 23:50 |
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Ukraine's State Statistics Committee has announced that the number of Ukrainian citizens residing in the country has fallen by 180,000 in the past 12 months. Read the story here. Dec 16, 2009 at 11:13 |
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An Albanian opposition daily revealed in an article published Dec. 2 the involvement of the Albanian government in facilitating the passage of Ukrainian arms to Hizbullah. It said Albania bought the missiles -- type "C 18" and "C 16" – using money from Iran in favor of Hezbollah and the Islamic Jihad. Read the story here. Dec 15, 2009 at 12:53 |
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Ukraine’s government is in dire need of the fourth installment of a US$16.4 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to pay this month’s gas supply bill from Russian energy giant Gazprom. Read the story here. Dec 15, 2009 at 11:23 |
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Ukraine is confident Europe will not see another winter of gas supply disruptions but there will be a "higher risk" if the International Monetary Fund does not resume lending to its distressed economy, according to Petro Poroshenko, Ukrainian foreign minister. Read the story here. Dec 14, 2009 at 12:08 |