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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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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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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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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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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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They are shocking pictures which gay people still face a daily struggle against prejudice in some parts of the world.With a group of three violent thugs kicking and jumping on him, Svyatoslav Sheremet lies forlornly on the ground.He is being attacked because he is the head of the organisation Gay Forum of Ukraine. Read the story here. May 22 at 00:36 |
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It took five years to hunt him down, and about five hours to sentence him. But as of today, the federal government is done chasing Ukrainian nightclub owner Veniamin Gonikman, who was sentenced to three years in prison for his role in an operation that smuggled Eastern European women into the U.S. and forced them to work in local strip clubs. He is the ninth and last defendant to be convicted in the human trafficking case. Gonikman, who led the government on an international manhunt for years, only admitted to money laundering, and insisted there were no "vulnerable victims," that he was never on the run, and that he lived openly in Ukraine. He was pushing for a 10-month sentence. Read more here. 2 days ago at 08:33 |
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MEPs criticize the recent decision of the High Court of Ukraine to postpone its ruling on the appeal by former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko against her seven-year prison sentence, in a resolution adopted on Thursday. They warn against delaying the legal proceedings, condemn the use of force against her by prison guards and remind Ukraine of its obligation to examine any complaints of cruel treatment. Parliament says doctors must be sent to treat Ms Tymoshenko and a high-level observer must monitor the court cases against her, as agreed last week between EP President Schulz and Prime Minister Azarov. Read more. 2 days ago at 18:34 |
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on Sunday nixed the idea that jailed and ailing ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko be released for treatment abroad ahead of next month's Euro football tournament. Read more here. May 20 at 14:26 |
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The family of a London businessman run down by a car in the Ukraine has welcomed the opening of a murder investigation into his death.Barry Pring, 47, of Battersea, was killed on his first wedding anniversary in February 2008 as he waited for a cab on the hard shoulder of a dual carriageway on the outskirts of Kiev. The car was travelling at 80mph with its lights switched off and debris found at the scene included false number plates and a bogus taxi sign. Police in the Ukraine have now upgraded their investigation from unexplained traffic accident. Officers want to interview Mr Pring’s widow Anna Ziuzina, a 33-year-old former stripper who met him through a dating agency. Read more here. 3 days ago at 12:55 |
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A violent scuffle erupted in Ukraine's Parliament on Thursday evening over a bill that would allow the use of the Russian language in courts, hospitals and other institutions in the Russian-speaking regions of the country. The fight broke out between members of the pro-Western opposition who want to take Ukraine out of Russia's shadow and lawmakers from President Viktor Yanukovych's party, which bases its support in Ukraine's Russian-speaking east. Read more here. Yesterday at 15:04 |
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The Sadok Ukrainian Dance Ensemble is about to say “pryvit” (welcome) as it celebrates its 13th anniversary with a dance performance at the Vernon Performing Arts Centre May 27. Billed as the Okanagan Ukrainain Festival, the Vernon-based dance troupe has invited special guests, the Pokotillo Ukrainian Dancers of Kamloops and the Stepanchuk Family Singers, to perform at the event. Read more here. May 21 at 10:16 |
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The death of a wealthy Devon businessman in the Ukraine four years ago has been upgraded to a murder inquiry, his family has said. Barry Pring, 47, was visiting his Ukrainian wife when he was killed by a speeding car in February 2008. Police initially treated his death as a hit-and-run accident, but his family have always believed he was murdered. Foreign Secretary William Hague raised the matter with the Ukrainian authorities last month. Read more here. 2 days ago at 08:24 |
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Deputies of the European Parliament claim that Ukraine is governed by oligarchs, and according to them, it prevents the country from developing. This issue was raised during the debates on the current situation in Ukraine and Yulia Tymoshenko’s case at European Parliament on May 22. Thus, EP deputy Michael Gahler, from a group of national parties in Germany, reminded that President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych together with his family and friends are getting more and more power. He drew attention to the appointment of Yanykovych’s protégés to the post of minister of internal affairs, as heads of the State Tax Service and to the National Bank of Ukraine. Read more here. 2 days ago at 13:35 |