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Daily Mail: Topless Ukrainian feminists attempt to steal Euro trophy in protest ahead of tournament

Topless activists from a Ukrainian women's rights group were arrested after grabbing the European Championship trophy while it was on public display in the southeast of the country.

Security guards moved in to stop Inna Shevchenko, 21, an activist in the Femen group, who grabbed hold of the 60cm-high cup while it was being exhibited in a central square in Dnipropetrovsk.

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Soviet dissidents meet in Crimea, decide to continue rights movement traditions SIMFEROPOL - Prominent Soviet-era dissidents have founded the Crimean Forum, an annual meeting of political prisoners of the Communist regime and human rights activists, whose purpose is to ensure the consistency of the human rights movement of the former USSR in the work of civil society institutions in the former Soviet republics.
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German Embassy in Ukraine issues 300,000 visas to Ukrainians in 2011 The German Embassy in Ukraine issued 300,000 visas to Ukrainians in 2011, embassy officials say.
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Fule: EU never declared boycott of Euro 2012 matches in Ukraine The European Union has never declared a boycott of matches of the Euro 2012 European Football Championship in Ukraine, European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule has said.
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Azarov stresses need to monitor nutrition at children camps Ukrainian Premier Mykola Azarov has said there is a need to thoroughly monitor the quality of children's food during the summer holidays in camps and health resorts.
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Ukraine, Kazakhstan agree on economic cooperation The first vice premiers of Ukraine and Kazakhstan have signed an intergovernmental protocol on economic cooperation on the results of the 10th meeting of the Kazakhstan-Ukraine commission in Astana on Tuesday.
Today at 14:58 | Interfax-Ukraine
Fule: Situation with supremacy of law should change to improve Ukraine-EU relations Relations between Ukraine and the EU will never improve if the situation with the supremacy of law in Ukraine does not change, EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy Stefan Fule has said.
Today at 14:32 | Interfax-Ukraine
Foreign Ministry: Libyan court refuses to pass Ukrainian detainees to Ukrainian embassy Ukraine has asked a Libyan court to allow to transfer Ukrainian detainees to Ukraine's embassy to be held under its responsibility, but the military tribunal of Tripoli rejected the petition.
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Ukraine cuts Russian gas imports 52% in Q1, 2012 Ukraine imported 8.547 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas of Russian origin in the first quarter of 2012, 52% or 9.372 bcm less year-on-year, the State Statistics Service has said.
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UkrainianJournal.com: Ukraine gets slapped down at NATO summit The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, at a summit in Chicago, expressed concern about selective justice and politically motivated prosecutions in Ukraine, sending a strong message to President Viktor Yanukovych.

The declaration is embarrassing for Yanukovych, who is one of about 60 world leaders invited to attend the summit. His political allies hoped the gathering would be a breakthrough overcoming his growing international isolation over democracy.

"We are concerned at the selective application of justice and what appear to be politically motivated prosecutions, including of leading members of the opposition, as well as the conditions of their detention," said the declaration approved by the NATO summit on Sunday.

NATO also encouraged Ukraine to address the existing problems of its judicial system to ensure full compliance with the rule of law and the international agreements to which it is a party.

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EP concerned about selective justice, corruption in Ukraine, reads draft resolution The European Parliament (EP) has said problems with selective justice and high levels of corruption exist in Ukraine, while at the same time, praising the setting up of the Constitutional Assembly and the adoption of a new Criminal procedure Code in the country.
Today at 12:30 | Interfax-Ukraine