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			<title>Ukraine's national football team holds 24 place in FIFA ranking</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53287/</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:10:14 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Ukraine's national football team has lost two positions in the FIFA world ranking for Nov. 2009 and is currently in 24th place, according to the official Web site of FIFA.]]></description>
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			<title>Derzhspozhivstandard registers violations of tobacco product trade at 20% of checked outlets</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53286/</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:04:54 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The State Committee for Technical Regulation and Consumer Policy (Derzhspozhivstandard) has checked 737 retail outlets of tobacco products in 20 regions of Ukraine and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea from Sept. 23 through Nov. 5 this year and registered 148 violations.]]></description>
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			<title>Ukrainian parliament returns draft state budget for 2010 to government for revision</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53284/</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:55:20 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The Ukrainian parliament has returned the draft state budget for 2010 to the government for revision.]]></description>
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			<title>Culture and Tourism Ministry reduces smoking in Ukrainian hotels</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53282/</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:37:33 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The Ukrainian hotels should allot at least 50% of their hotel rooms for nonsmokers starting from Friday, Nov. 20.]]></description>
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			<title>IMF still expects consensus from Ukraine on budget position</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53280/</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:26:01 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The situation with the program of cooperation between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Ukraine has remained unchanged over the last two weeks, as the fund still expects consensus from the Ukrainian authorities on a realistic budget, Director of the IMF External Relations Department Caroline Atkinson has said.]]></description>
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			<title>Ukraine has not asked Russia for state loans</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53278/</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:05:15 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Yalta, November 20 (Interfax) - Ukraine has not asked Russia for state loans, but Ukrainian national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrainy might seek loans from Russian banks, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin told journalists.]]></description>
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			<title>UN urges Ukraine not to send Afghans seeking refugee status back home</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53277/</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:02:11 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The United Nations refugee agency is calling on the Ukrainian authorities not to send eight refugees from Afghanistan back to their native country until their need for protection is assessed, the press service of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees reported on Nov. 18.]]></description>
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			<title>Tymoshenko calls for Russia, Ukraine to cooperate in grain trade</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53274/</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:39:05 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Yalta, November 20 (Interfax) - Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has offered to Russia to cooperate in supplying grain to third countries' markets.]]></description>
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			<title>World Bank approves $60 million for hydropower rehabilitation project in Ukraine</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53272/</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:25:20 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The World Bank has approved a $60 million loan as additional financing for the Hydropower Rehabilitation Project in Ukraine.]]></description>
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			<title>Russia, Ukraine seek broader ties in shipbuilding, aviation</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53270/</link>
			<category>Nation</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:06:30 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Yalta, November 20 (Interfax) - Russia and Ukraine will draft a memorandum on cooperation in the shipbuilding sector and an agreement to resume the serial production of Antonov An-124 Ruslan heavy transport airplanes.]]></description>
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			<title>Health Ministry confirms 356 deaths caused by influenza and ARVI</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53269/</link>
			<category>Nation</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:24:09 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The ministry of healthcare of Ukraine has confirmed 356 lethal cases caused by influenza and acute respiratory viral infections, as of Nov. 19, in 24 regions, the cities of Kyiv and Sevastopol, and in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, reads a report made by the ministry.]]></description>
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			<title>Tymoshenko: Ukraine will charge market prices for gas transit in 2010</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53267/</link>
			<category>Nation</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:09:39 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Ukraine will charge market prices for transit of Russian gas in 2010, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said.]]></description>
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			<title>Putin gives Ukraine a break on gas deal</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53265/</link>
			<category>Nation</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:16:49 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[YALTA, Ukraine -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promised Thursday to give struggling Ukraine a break by altering tough conditions in a natural gas contract, a move that could ease European supply concerns and give Putin's counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko a boost amid a bitter presidential campaign.]]></description>
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			<title>Russia's Putin says Ukraine gas deals ensure supplies</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53262/</link>
			<category>Nation</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:54:16 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[YALTA, Ukraine, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Russia believes existing gas deals with Ukraine guarantee stable energy supplies to Ukraine and Europe, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.]]></description>
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			<title>Russia's Putin says comfortable with Ukraine's Tymoshenko</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53261/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:52:13 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[YALTA, Ukraine, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday said he found it comfortable to work with his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko]]></description>
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			<title>Russia's Putin wants New Year without gas 'shocks'</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53260/</link>
			<category>Nation</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:45:28 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[YALTA, Ukraine, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that existing gas deals with Ukraine were a guarantee of stable energy supplies to Europe and he hoped for a New Year without any gas &quot;shocks&quot;.]]></description>
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			<title>Ukraine, Russia ready for gas talks, EU watches</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53264/</link>
			<category>Nation</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:00:28 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[YALTA, Ukraine, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and Russia's Vladimir Putin readied on Thursday for talks which the European Union hopes will avert a possible new conflict disrupting supplies of Russian gas to EU consumers.]]></description>
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			<title>Kremlin accuses Yushchenko of Europe gas blackmail</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53263/</link>
			<category>Nation</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:00:13 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[MOSCOW, Nov 19 (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Thursday accused Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko of blackmailing Europe on gas in response to a letter in which Yushchenko called on Russia to change the terms of gas contracts.]]></description>
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			<title>Cheating nation</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53259/</link>
			<category>Nation</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:59:38 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Fake university diplomas, drivers licenses and health certificates are becoming common in Ukraine. Getting caught is still the exception, not the rule.]]></description>
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			<title>Letter from the publisher</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53258/</link>
			<category>Nation</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:58:01 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Kyiv Post publisher Mohammad Zahoor announces improvements to the newspaper and his future plans.]]></description>
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			<title>Flu slows down Kyiv</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53256/</link>
			<category>Nation</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:50:33 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Affected by quarantine and panic, life in Kyiv has been subdued in the past few weeks.]]></description>
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			<title>Georgia’s Saakashvili doubts Russia will risk military conflict with Ukraine</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53255/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:47:48 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Visiting Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said Ukraine is &ldquo;a hard nut to crack&rdquo; for Russia.]]></description>
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			<title>Panic eases even as flu deaths rise</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53252/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:41:17 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[As the government on Nov. 19 announced an end to a three-week national shutdown of universities and schools, panic over the flu epidemic subsided somewhat in Ukraine.]]></description>
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			<title>These leaders, advancements shaped defense</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53249/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:25:50 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The Ukrainian Center for Army Conversion and Disarmament Studies released a rating of top 10 Ukrainians in several categories related to defense and security issues.]]></description>
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			<title>A (H1N1) flu vaccines to be registered until Dec. 15</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53218/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:01:25 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The Cabinet of Ministers has instructed the Health Ministry to provide registration of vaccines for the influenza A (H1N1) until Dec. 15, 2009. The governmental issued the relevant resolution No.1387 dated Nov. 18.]]></description>
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			<title>Resumption of An-148 Ruslan airplanes production requires $500 million</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53217/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:45:16 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Moscow, November 19 (Interfax-Ukraine) &ndash; The resumption of the production of An-148-100 Ruslan heavy transport aircraft requires $500 million of investments, a source close to United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) told Interfax-Ukraine.]]></description>
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			<title>Ukrainian Globalist: Swine flu is made to hide the real threats to humanity</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53216/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:41:52 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Is swine flu the real threat to humanity? More probably it is the way to conceal more awful things happening in the world. We can see that the panic around swine flu makes people forget other even more important global events such as wars, political conflicts etc. And the character of A/H1N1 virus is its unexpected appearing &ldquo;in the right place at the right moment&rdquo;. The similar situation is noticed in Ukraine. It is not a secret that the country has a lot of internal and foreign problems and debts and its future is vague. People are going to strike against authorities while the country has got into dependence on powerful states. Besides the elections of the President is coming soon. The sudden swine flu invasion really seems to be a right way to distract people from the real great problems of Ukraine. Besides it is a good way to advertise candidates to the Presidency.<a href="http://globalist.org.ua/eng/144185-%E2%80%9Cswine-flu%E2%80%9D-is-made-to-hide-the-real-threats-to-humanity" target="_blank">Read the story here</a>.]]></description>
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			<title>Ukraine receives humanitarian aid from 13 countries, WHO</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53208/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:35:08 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Ukraine on Thursday received humanitarian aid from 13 countries, the World Health Organization and two Ukrainian charitable organizations, the Ukrainian Health Ministry reported on Nov. 19, referring to Deputy Health Minister Ihor Yakovenko.]]></description>
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			<title>Ivano-Frankivsk region to order over 100,000 doses of flu vaccine</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53206/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:25:27 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Ivano-Frankivsk, November 19 (Interfax-Ukraine) &ndash; The leadership of Ivano-Frankivsk region has decided to buy over 100,000 doses of flu vaccine in 2010, the region's chief sanitary officer, Mykhailo Yavorsky, said at a meeting of a special anti-epidemic commission under the regional administration on Nov. 19.]]></description>
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			<title>Ukraine receives 615,000 of packs of Tamiflu</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/53201/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:54:59 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Ukraine has already received around 615,000 of packs of Tamiflu, an antiviral drug for treating flu, Ukraine's chief health and sanitary officer Oleksandr Bilovol said at a press conference on Nov. 19.]]></description>
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