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Hyundai high speed trains to run on Kyiv-Kharkiv and Kyiv-Lviv routes from May 27 Hyundai Intercity+ high-speed trains made by South Korea's Hyundai Rotem, with the introduction of the new schedule for 2012-2013, will start running from May 27, 2012 on the Kyiv-Kharkiv and Kyiv-Lviv routes, the press service of the State Railway Administration of Ukraine (Ukrzaliznytsia) has reported.
May 21 at 13:40 | Interfax-Ukraine
Bare-breasted Ukraine activists grab Euro 2012 cup KIEV - Topless activists from a Ukrainian women's rights group staged a second attack on the Euro 2012 soccer trophy on Monday, grabbing it while it was on public display in the southeast of Ukraine before being seized themselves by police.
May 21 at 17:52 | Reuters
New Hyundai trains bring frustration, not comfort to Ukrainians The arrival of new South Korean speed trains this month to the Ukrainian railway was heralded as a great improvement in transportation, but it has also brought frustration, anger over high prices and complaints over bad service.
2 days ago at 18:52 | Olga Rudenko
What’s In Your Water? Is the water you are drinking clean? Are there better and cheaper alternatives? Who is responsible for keeping water safe, and are they doing a good job? In this edition, the Kyiv Post launches a four-part series to answer these questions. The newspaper hired experts to analyze 25 samples of water from taps, pumps, wells and bottles.
2 days ago at 22:28 | Oksana Grytsenko and Oksana Faryna
Komorowski to meet with Yanukovych during NATO summit in Chicago President of Poland Bronislaw Komorowski is going to meet with his Ukrainian counterpart, Viktor Yanukovych, to discuss with him matters of the European integration of Ukraine on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Chicago, the official web site of the Polish head of state reported on Friday.
May 19 at 12:16 | Interfax-Ukraine
Official: Olympic ticket mishandling allegations may be provocation Vice President of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine Viktor Korzh has said that the situation with tbe alleged mishandling of tickets to the London 2012 Summer Olympics by the committee's secretary general, Volodymyr Heraschenko, could be a provocation.
3 days ago at 13:11 | Interfax-Ukraine
Foreign Ministry: Ukrainians obtain over one million Schengen visas in 2011 The Foreign Affairs Ministry of Ukraine has reported that in 2011 Ukrainians obtained 182,000 more Schengen visas compared to 2010, and their total number was 1.1 million.
3 days ago at 17:58 | Interfax-Ukraine
Three year sentence in US-Europe sex trafficking case DETROIT — A Ukraine-born man once listed as a top fugitive by the U.S. government was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for conspiring to lure Eastern European women to the U.S. and force them to become strippers.
2 days ago at 14:19 | Associated Press
NATO: 'We are concerned by selective application of justice' in Ukraine The recently concluded NATO Summit in Chicago ended with a condemnation of political repression in Ukraine and a warning for President Viktor Yanukovych to hold honest parliamentary elections on Oct. 28.

The following is an excerpt of the official declaration pertaining to Ukraine:

"We are concerned by the selective application of justice and what appear to be politically motivated prosecutions, including of leading members of the opposition, and the conditions of their detention. We encourage Ukraine to address the existing shortcomings of its judicial system to ensure full compliance with the rule of law and the international agreements to which it is a party. We also encourage Ukraine to ensure free, fair and inclusive parliamentary elections this autumn."

And here is the entire statement.
2 days ago at 16:24
Violence against gays in Ukraine  captured for whole world to see Violence against gays inUkraine captured for whole world to see.
2 days ago at 21:48 | Svitlana Tuchynska
Ukrainian pianist plays her way to YouTube stardom LONDON - A little-known Ukrainian pianist who has had 43 million views on YouTube of her performing everything from Liszt to Schubert said on Friday for an encore she will play London's Royal Albert Hall -- and the world is invited to watch on the Internet.
Yesterday at 13:22 | Reuters