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			<title>Conscience vote</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/editorial/detail/53254/</link>
			<category>Editorial</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:46:21 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[No matter what the polls and neighbors say, Ukrainians should vote for the presidential candidate best able to lead the nation.]]></description>
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			<title>Panic subsides</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/editorial/detail/53253/</link>
			<category>Editorial</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:42:16 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The government should let the nation get back to normal lives by lifting the quarantine.]]></description>
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			<title>Leaders unwilling to put nation first</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/53250/</link>
			<category>OP-ED</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:35:58 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Politicians are sacrificing the nation&rsquo;s long-term interests for short-term popularity.]]></description>
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			<title>Does tobacco industry need to be saved?</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/53248/</link>
			<category>OP-ED</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:26:08 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Tobacco tax increases are the most effective way to encourage people to stop smoking.]]></description>
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			<title>Nation hasn’t shaken Kuchma past</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/53247/</link>
			<category>OP-ED</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:21:49 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Ukraine may look different these days, but the era started by former president Leonid Kuchma is far from over.]]></description>
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			<title>To save lives, nation still needs to learn many lessons from flu epidemic</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/53246/</link>
			<category>OP-ED</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:14:44 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Kateryna Grushenko writes that health-care officials should quit provincial thinking and start acting in the interests of Ukraine&rsquo;s population.]]></description>
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			<title>Vox Populi with Kateryna Grushenko</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/53245/</link>
			<category>OP-ED</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:12:02 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Should the flu quarantine in Kyiv be extended?]]></description>
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			<title>Lemkin: Holodomor ‘classic’ genocide</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/53243/</link>
			<category>OP-ED</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:09:11 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Rafael Lemkin who coined the term &lsquo;genocide,&rsquo; called the Holodomor a classic case of Soviet genocide.]]></description>
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			<title>How much does it cost to be a patriot?</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/53163/</link>
			<category>OP-ED</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:33:19 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Shall we start the bidding at Hr 200? Or would Hr 8,000 mark one out as being truly patriotic? That&rsquo;s the range of prices the Ukrainian Football Federation charged fans to attend the most important game in the national side&rsquo;s season, the second and final leg of the World Cup qualifying playoffs against Greece. It was a disastrous decision that had and will have disastrous consequences for Ukrainian football, though the wider reverberations may be felt by Ukrainian society as a whole, beyond the 1-0 match loss.]]></description>
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			<title>Russia Today: “Europe should overcome inertia in politics and mentality”</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/53125/</link>
			<category>OP-ED</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:42:57 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Europe should overcome dividing lines and prejudices of the past and work towards a common security platform for the entire Euro-Atlantic region, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrey Nesterenko. He added that Russia will continue promoting the idea of European security treaty which would help to attain this goal. In his weekly address to the media, Andrey Nesterenko touched upon Russian President Dmitry Medvedev&rsquo;s Address to the Federal Assembly, his participation in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Singapore and other news and issues. <a href="http://www.russiatoday.com/Politics/2009-11-18/nesterenko-us.html" target="_blank">Read the story here</a>.]]></description>
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			<title>Russia Profile: The pied piper</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/53059/</link>
			<category>OP-ED</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:37:24 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Tom Balmforth writes: Much-delayed and with political problems still unresolved, Nabucco looks like an increasingly untenable project. <a href="http://www.russiaprofile.org/page.php?pageid=Business&amp;articleid=a1258481847" target="_blank">Read the story here.</a>]]></description>
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			<title>Harvard Crimson opinion: Keep Russia from Ukraine’s polls</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/53056/</link>
			<category>OP-ED</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:28:12 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Ellen C. Bryson writes:If the United States really wants to reset relations with Russia, then it needs to be willing to stand up to Russia&rsquo;s attempts to walk over its neighbors. Without the chance to recover from the recession and sort out its own political problems free from Russian intervention, Ukraine will never be able to progress beyond its Soviet past and become a wealthy and solidly-democratic state.]]></description>
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			<title>IHS Global Insight: Russia, EU agree on early warning system for potential energy supply disruptions</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/53034/</link>
			<category>OP-ED</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:54:53 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[With the threat of a new Russia-Ukraine gas dispute growing by the day, Russia and the European Union (EU) Nov. 17 announced plans to sign an agreement on an early warning system that would cover deliveries of coal, oil, and electricity as well as gas.]]></description>
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			<title>In Ukraine, it's hard to take a break from politics</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/52959/</link>
			<category>OP-ED</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:13:52 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[On Saturday I decided to take a break from Ukrainian politics and &ldquo;escape&rdquo; from Ukrainian politics by going to see the film &ldquo;2012.&quot; What better way to &ldquo;escape&rdquo; from reality than going to see a film about the end of the world!?]]></description>
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			<title>Jamestown Foundation opinion: Tymoshenko's foreign policy</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/52920/</link>
			<category>OP-ED</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:10:13 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Taras Kuzio writes:Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko&rsquo;s 2010 presidential election program is entitled &ldquo;Ukraine will be victorious. Ukraine that is you&rdquo; and includes a strong emphasis on Ukraine&rsquo;s integration into Europe. Tymoshenko&rsquo;s election program is available, as with other registered presidential candidates, on the Central Election Commission web site (http://www.cvk.gov.ua/vp_2010/kandydaty/index.php). <a href="http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&amp;tx_ttnews[tt_news]=35737&amp;tx_ttnews[backPid]=7&amp;cHash=a3c7eaeb1b" target="_blank">Read the story here.</a>]]></description>
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			<title>Washington Post: Playing politics with a pandemic</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/52918/</link>
			<category>OP-ED</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:05:34 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Anne Applebaum writes: I woke up Monday morning with a sore throat, and mentioned this to a friend. &quot;Swine flu?&quot; he asked, oinking a few times for emphasis. No, as far as I can tell I do not have swine flu, the virus more formally known as H1N1. But even if I did, I'm not sure that anyone around me would take it very seriously. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/16/AR2009111602631.html" target="_blank">Read the story here. </a><strong><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/16/AR2009111602631.html" target="_blank"></a>
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			<title>Euobserver.com: EU running on empty in Ukraine</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/52861/</link>
			<category>OP-ED</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:47:29 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Ukrainian politics is like Mexican telenovelas. The characters are the same for years and years: charming but cunning Tymoshenko, dull but pragmatic Yanukovych, idealistic but weak Yushchenko, plus the whole plethora of old faces from Litvin to Tihipko. Yatsenyuk is the only new face, campaigning with smart khaki billboards, but with surprisingly old-fashioned views. However, the 2010 election campaign is different from the past elections in Ukraine. The change is not in personalities, but in subtleties of their rhetoric. These are the first elections in a decade when none of the main contenders comes forth with a strong pro-EU message. Until now all political parties that mattered made European integration part of their party programmes. Failing to do that meant less popularity among the Ukrainian population, buying into everything European, from evroremont (expensive and well-done apartment renovation) to evrogroby (lacquered wooden coffins). <a href="http://euobserver.com/9/28988" target="_blank">Read the story here. </a>]]></description>
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			<title>President Yushchenko: What about NATO?</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/52840/</link>
			<category>OP-ED</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:34:03 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[President Victor Yushchenko is campaigning for a second term, despite having worse popularity ratings than his predecessor, Leonid Kuchma, had after two terms in office and following the scandal of Georgiy Gongadze, the journalist whose 2000 murder is still unsolved. But with what is Yushchenko fighting for in the 2010 elections? Yushchenko&rsquo;s election program is interesting more for what it does not include than for what it includes.]]></description>
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			<title>Washington Post editorial: Mr. Medvedev's glasnost</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/52807/</link>
			<category>OP-ED</category>
			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:10:31 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[<h4>Does his blunt description of what ails Russia portend real change?</h4>
Russian PresidentDmitry Medvedev certainly talks a good game. Before taking office last year, he correctly diagnosed the country's biggest problem as &quot;legal nihilism.&quot;]]></description>
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			<title>Dumb ax</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/editorial/detail/52676/</link>
			<category>Editorial</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:06:38 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Rather than protecting the evil tobacco industry or siding with it to punish an opponent, President Victor Yushchenko should lead the charge to help hooked citizens break their deadly addictions.]]></description>
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			<title>Expose frauds</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/editorial/detail/52675/</link>
			<category>Editorial</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:03:26 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Opening up university databases could help expose and crack down on fake diplomas and clean up what has become a cheating nation.]]></description>
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			<title>Flu panic shifts focus from troubling vote</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/52674/</link>
			<category>OP-ED</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:00:18 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Poor legislation, poll-chasing policies jeopardize presidential vote.]]></description>
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			<title>Germany warming up to Ukraine’s EU hopes</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/52673/</link>
			<category>OP-ED</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:57:06 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Luckily for Ukraine, pro-Ukrainian Free Democratic Party of Germany is becoming a player in European Union foreign affairs.]]></description>
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			<title>Miracle of childbirth not always easy or cheap in Ukraine</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/52672/</link>
			<category>OP-ED</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:53:23 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[But good hospitals, doctors do exist.]]></description>
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			<title>Vox Populi with Kateryna Grushenko</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/52671/</link>
			<category>OP-ED</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:51:01 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Why do some people claim university degrees they don't have?]]></description>
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			<title>Your baby knows better</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/52598/</link>
			<category>OP-ED</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:18:12 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[As a pregnant 21-year-old, I had no clue about becoming a mother. I did my homework well. I read books, did yoga for pregnant women and took labor preparation courses. But the hardest part was actually going out and finding a place where to give birth]]></description>
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			<title>Random thoughts...</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/52454/</link>
			<category>OP-ED</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:10:02 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[<em>In this first weblog entry for the Kyiv Post, an imaginary conversation takes place between Danish philosopher <b><a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kierkegaard/" target="_blank">S&oslash;ren Kierkegaard</a>, </b>American beat writer Jack Kerouac and Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. The topic of their conversation is modern day Ukraine. The three are sitting at the base of the Oles Honchar statue in Kyiv drinking street beers (no product placement entered here)...</em>]]></description>
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			<title>Kyiv Post classic: A shameful pageant</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/52441/</link>
			<category>OP-ED</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:28:14 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Here's a warning for enthusiasts of Euro 2012, the soccer championship to be co-hosted by Ukraine: Don't repeat the mistakes of the fiasco of Miss Europe 1997, held in Kyiv on Sept. 6 of that year. In one of independent Ukraine's most embarrassing international scandals, beauty contestants of the Miss Europe pageant fled Kyiv after complaining that they were forced from their hotel rooms and treated like prostitutes by some of their Ukrainian male hosts. The headline from the Ukrainian Weekly on Sept. 14 summed it up well: &quot;Miss Europe marred by scandal and walkout.&quot;<br />
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Here is the Kyiv Post editorial of Sept. 11, 1997, headlined &quot;A shameful pageant&quot;:]]></description>
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			<title>New York Times opinion: The Kremlin can't have it both ways</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/52306/</link>
			<category>OP-ED</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:06:36 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Kati Marton and Nina Ognianova write: During a recent mission by representatives of the Committee to Protect Journalists to urge the end of impunity in the killing of journalists in Russia, we were struck by Moscow investigators and prosecutors using the familiar excuses: &ldquo;Give us time,&rdquo; they told us. &ldquo;Russia is where the United States was in the days of the Wild West.&rdquo; But a great nation claiming equal status with other great nations cannot plead exemption when it comes to press freedom and human rights. Russia cannot have it both ways. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/opinion/10iht-edmarton.html?_r=1&amp;ref=global" target="_blank">Read the opinion here.</a>]]></description>
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			<title>Moscow Times opinion: The wall that changed history</title>
			<link>http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/52187/</link>
			<category>OP-ED</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:13:50 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Yevgeny Kiselov writes: And certainly not a soul could have known during those fateful days in November 1989 that a fair-haired young man with the obscure surname of Putin &mdash; who, pistol in hand, had dispersed a crowd of demonstrators outside the building housing the Dresden branch of the Soviet KGB &mdash; would 10 years later become Russia&rsquo;s second president. <a href="http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/the-wall-that-changed-modern-history/389045.html" target="_blank">Read the opinion here.</a>]]></description>
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