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Jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has criticized plans to accord equal status to the Russian and Ukrainian languages ahead of parliamentary elections, a statement on her website said. “It is not just election games, it is a crime against Ukraine,” she said. “I will not let it happen! Hear? Am here behind bars but I won’t let you abuse Ukraine!” Read more. |
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Kate Connolly writes: Angela Merkel is planning to boycott next month's Euro 2012 football tournament in Ukraine unless imprisoned opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko is released, according to newspaper reports. The German chancellor's decision came as the former Ukrainian prime minister's daughter made an impassioned plea to the German government to "save the life" of her mother, who is has spent 10 days on hunger strike. "Save my mother's life before it's too late," Eugenia Tymoshenko urged the German leadership in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung newspaper. "The fate of my mother and that of my country are now one and the same thing: if she dies, democracy dies with her". Read the full story here. Apr 30 at 11:04 |
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Conflict for conflict’s sake is what some anti-gay campaigners in Ukraine were apparently seeking as yet another LGBT parade failed to march through Kiev. As Ukraine's Gay Forum head called the action off, hooligans cornered the man to sort him out. The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community of Ukraine were diverted from their gay pride route on Sunday, as half a thousand of nationalists and anti-gay activists arrived at the parade’s meeting point in downtown Kiev. Some ultra-right and religious campaigners were merely holding placards reading “No to gays!” but police reports said nationalists were firm in their resolve to attack the march. Read the story here. May 22 at 01:52 |
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Mila Kunis, who has been voted the hottest woman in the world owing to her knock-out figure, huge dark eyes and pouting lips, has revealed that she had a tough time before she lit up the big screen in Hollywood. The 28-year-old actress was born in the Ukraine and had to hide the fact she was Jewish when she was growing up for fear of persecution. May 6 at 11:39 | Kyiv Post |
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BRUSSELS- Ukraine's ruling Party of Regions (PoR) has hired Burson-Marsteller - a top PR company in Brussels - amid a smear campaign against former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
Read the story here. Apr 30 at 19:06 |
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Editor's Note: The following story was published online by Russia Today, a Kremlin-funded information organization that has been criticized for its anti-Western and anti-Ukrainian propaganda. May 21 at 07:51 |
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According to a Financial Times report, “Ukraine is awash with claim and counterclaim concerning what is alleged to be leaked videotape apparently showing jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko moving nimbly in her cell, despite claiming to be severely ill, and in a romantic embrace with her lawyer.” “The low-resolution clip was broadcast on national television hours after the former prime minister declared a hunger strike claiming she had been beaten by prison guards,” according to the report. Tymoshenko’s camp has declared the tape a fake designed to blacken her reputation. But a senior prison official insists it is genuine. Apr 25 at 22:05 | Kyiv Post |
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Oksana Shachko, a girl with a doll-like face, is supposed to go to prison for five years. It's a cool spring Thursday in Ukraine as the 24-year-old walks through the streets of Kiev with her attorney. She is wearing a leather jacket and black boots, and dangling an almost-finished cigarette between her fingers. Five years, because she bared her breasts in public once again. The hearing at the Interior Ministry is at 5 p.m., and they are in a hurry. They walk past tall, brown and gray buildings from the Stalin era. They discuss ways to put a positive spin on the expression "kiss my ass," which is what Oksana said to the Indian ambassador. "It was a happy protest. A happy protest for the rights of Ukrainian women," Oksana finally says. She's decided it's what she will say in the hearing at the Interior Ministry. Shachko is a Ukrainian women's rights activist, and her weapons are attached to her pale, petite body like the two halves of an apple. Her weapons are the symbol of femininity, motherhood and sexuality, and filmmakers and marketers have used them millions of times to sell everything under the sun, from yogurt to vacuum cleaners. They have put Oksana and her fight onto cover pages around the world, and they've made her and her fellow activists into the cover girls of an international protest movement -- the icons of a naked rebellion. Their supporters believe that by using these weapons, the women have invented a new feminism. Their critics say that they are turning themselves into pornography with these weapons. Read the story here. May 12 at 09:17 |
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Activists from Ukraine’s nationalist party Bratstvo on May 7 mocked Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin by installing a Pissing Stalin Golden Monument in Kyiv and in the western city Lviv, Unian news agency said. The 1.50-meter wooden sculptures are covered in golden paint. The party also planned to unveil two Pissing Stalin Golden Monuments in Odessa and Dnipropetrovsk. Read more here. May 8 at 08:59 |
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In a May 10 Financial Times report, Roman Olearchyk and Quentin Peel write: “Angela Merkel has described Ukraine as a “dictatorship”, ratcheting up European pressure on Ukraine’s president to free Yulia Tymoshenko, the jailed opposition leader, and reverse a broader rollback of democracy.” According to the report, the German chancellor drew parallels between Ukraine and Belarus, its authoritarian neighbour, sending a “clear message about European leaders’ frustration with what they view as undemocratic, un-European behaviour.” In a speech to Germany’s lower house of parliament, Ms Merkel said: “Today we are living in peace and freedom in Germany, and in the European Union, but sadly not in the whole of Europe: for in Ukraine, and in Belarus, people are still suffering under dictatorship and repression.” May 11 at 00:34 | Kyiv Post |
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The U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on Tuesday for the release of the Ukrainian jailed ex-Prime Minister Julia Tymoshenko, following the reports that the former premier had been severely beaten by the prison guards. “The photographs of Mrs. Tymoshenko released by the Ukrainian Human Rights Ombudsman further call into question the conditions of her confinement…We continue to call for her release, the release of other members of her former government and the restoration of their full civil and political rights,” Clinton said in a statement published on Tuesday on the U.S. Department of State’s web site. Read the story here. May 1 at 23:39 |
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Gay England football fans travelling to Ukraine for Euro 2012 have been warned to keep a low profile for their own safety. The advice came after Kyiv's first ever gay pride parade was cancelled on Sunday amid fears of violence from far-right thugs. Television pictures showed Svyatoslav Sheremet, head of the Gay Forum of Ukraine, being kicked and jumped on by a group of men after the event was stopped. Read more about here. May 22 at 20:34 |
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Ukraine's education minister is in hot water after saying that women at the highest levels of study in the country's university system are less attractive than other Ukrainian women. Read the story here. May 22 at 00:57 |
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Mykola Azarov became Ukraine’s prime minister in March 2010. Since then his premiership has come under sharp focus in Europe and beyond with concerns over the treatment of former PM Yulia Tymoshenko who is currently serving a seven year prison sentence on charges of abuse of office. Mykola Azarov spoke with Euronews correspondent, Sergio Cantone. Sergio Cantone euronews: “Prime minister welcome to euronews. There are a lot of concerns in the EU, especially among the EU leaders about the situation concerning the rule of law in Ukraine, Merkel, the chancellor of Germany compared Ukraine to a dictatorship, compared Ukraine to Belarus, so what is your idea about it? Mykola Azarov, Ukraine’s Prime Minister: “Just a few days spent in Ukraine, or maybe more, would be enough for anyone to be sure that there’s no dictatorship in Ukraine, and neither is there any political repression. Democratic political parties are active in Ukraine, some of them are represented in the parliament, some of them not. We have total freedom of expression. I personally regard (Mrs. Merkel’s) remark to be politically incorrect. It doesn’t help to strengthen bilateral relations between Germany and Ukraine, and moreover, between Ukraine and the EU as a whole. Read the full interview here. May 13 at 19:01 |
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Editor's Note: The following story was published online by Russia Today, a Kremlin-funded information organization that has been criticized for its anti-Western and anti-Ukrainian propaganda. Apr 25 at 17:55 |