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Nationalism in Ukraine is traditionally understood as western Ukrainian and ethnic by Western scholars such as Germany’s Andreas Umland who have focused their research on Svoboda and western Ukrainian nationalists. Unfortunately, this analysis does not do justice to a complicated country such as Ukraine, where anti-democratic culture, racial intolerance, anti-Semitism and xenophobia are more prevalent in eastern and southern Ukraine and the Crimea. Jan 30 at 15:15 | Taras Kuzio |
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's Foreign Ministry has accused the U.S. of breaking international law by keeping terror suspects in indefinite custody without trial at the Guantanamo Bay prison. Jan 15 at 22:02 | Associated Press |
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Volodymyr Horbulin, an adviser to several Ukrainian presidents, told the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine in 2006 that current President Viktor Yanukovych’s party is partly composed of “pure criminals,” according to a recently leaked diplomatic cable. Jan 26 at 22:21 | Oksana Grytsenko |
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has signed decrees dismissing Mykhailo Yezhel as Ukraine's defense minister and appointing Dmytro Salamatin to this post. Feb 8 at 20:04 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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Moscow, February 4 (Interfax) - Russia's top criminal investigation agency claims that the majority of Web videos that purportedly show fraud at polling stations during December's parliamentary elections in Russia "possess elements of montage," and that all of them "were disseminated from the same server, which is situated in the United States." Feb 4 at 17:42 |
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Russia's Foreign Ministry is asking the government to suspend adoptions of Russian children by U.S. nationals following an "incessant string of crimes" allegedly committed by American adoptive parents. 2 days ago at 16:15 | Associated Press |
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said that the country has to resolve the question of the high price of Russian gas on its own and received no assistance from other states. Jan 14 at 10:11 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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Supporters of Ukraine's jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko disrupted a speech by President Viktor Yanukovich on Tuesday, raucously chanting "Freedom for Yulia!" and setting the scene for a stormy October parliamentary election. Feb 7 at 19:44 | Reuters |
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Ukraine has regressed to the Leonid Kuchma days, a decade associated more with authoritarianism, lawlessness, crony capitalism and corruption than with democracy. Jan 20 at 00:25 | Mark Rachkevych |
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Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Jose Manuel Pinto Teixeira has said that at present Ukrainian authorities are not trying to find a way out of the situation around former prime minister of Ukrainian Yulia Tymoshenko. 2 days ago at 12:26 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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Leninsky District Court of Luhansk has passed a three-year sentence on Roman Landik, the son of Regions Party MP Volodymyr Landik, two-years of which were suspended. Jan 19 at 12:58 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said that the price of gas for Ukraine is five times higher than in the United States. Jan 16 at 14:27 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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An Internet petition to free Yulia Tymoshenko from prison is available for signing: http://www.change.org/petitions/free-yulia-tymoshenko#. Jan 30 at 15:43 | Bishop Paul Peter Jesep |
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A local newspaper in the western Ukrainian city of Ternopil illustrated its front-page story on Tuesday with a photomontage of monkeys groping a woman to depict African and Arab men who had allegedly gotten into a bar fight. Our Observer, a Congolese student living in Ternopil, tells us this has deeply upset African students at his university, who he says are frequently the target of racist attacks. Read more here. Jan 27 at 14:36 |
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Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Motion—to every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction—has just been confirmed in Ukraine. Read the story here. Jan 15 at 12:07 | Alexander J. Motyl |