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Politicians are sacrificing the nation’s long-term interests for short-term popularity.
Three days ago at 21:35 | Marc Schleifer and Aleksandr Shkolnikov
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Tobacco tax increases are the most effective way to encourage people to stop smoking. Three days ago at 21:26 | Konstantin Krasovsky |
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Ukraine may look different these days, but the era started by former president Leonid Kuchma is far from over. Three days ago at 21:21 | Yuriy Lukanov |
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Kateryna Grushenko writes that health-care officials should quit provincial thinking and start acting in the interests of Ukraine’s population. Three days ago at 21:14 | Kateryna Grushenko |
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Should the flu quarantine in Kyiv be extended? Three days ago at 21:12 | Kateryna Grushenko |
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Rafael Lemkin who coined the term ‘genocide,’ called the Holodomor a classic case of Soviet genocide. Three days ago at 21:09 | Lubomyr Luciuk |
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Shall we start the bidding at Hr 200? Or would Hr 8,000 mark one out as being truly patriotic? That’s the range of prices the Ukrainian Football Federation charged fans to attend the most important game in the national side’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. Three days ago at 11:33 | Roland Sylvester |
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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’s Address to the Federal Assembly, his participation in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Singapore and other news and issues. Read the story here. November 18 at 16:42 |
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Tom Balmforth writes: Much-delayed and with political problems still unresolved, Nabucco looks like an increasingly untenable project. Read the story here. November 18 at 08:37 |
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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’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. November 18 at 08:28 |
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IHS Global Insight: Russia, EU agree on early warning system for potential energy supply disruptions
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. November 17 at 17:54 | wire reports |