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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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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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BRUSSELS - The Ukrainian parliament might be willing to take "extraordinary measures" in the case of jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko if the European Union meets it halfway, the country‘s deputy prime minister said on April 25. "Normally, it‘s not a rule (to have) a law changed for one person," Valeriy Khoroshkovsky told reporters during a visit to Brussels. "But if all other issues are settled, in this case I think parliamentarians would be willing to take extraordinary measures." Read more here. Apr 25 at 17:21 |
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A few weeks ago, I created a profile and logged onto VKontakte, the most popular Russian-language social network. I entered some personal information, uploaded an especially flattering picture of myself, then used the search function to find all single women between 25 and 35 in Ukraine who were online at the moment — around 7:30 p.m. Ukraine time. There were more than 10,000 available, all sorted by a rating system which seemed to be directly proportional to the amount of pictures a woman had posted of herself in a string bikini, and how good she looked in said bikini. Read more here. May 20 at 14:20 |
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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 14 at 20:25 |
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Sex bomb Pamela Anderson has stood up for Ukraine’s stray dogs. The actress calls on UEFA to react to the mass slaughter of homeless animals ahead of the Euro 2012 football tournament, hosted by Ukraine this year together with Poland. Read the story here. May 6 at 23:14 |
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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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Topless activists are setting a booby trap for English football fans at Euro 2012. The babes plan to whip their tops off in protest at the booming sex trade in Ukraine which they fear will be fuelled by randy supporters. Radical women’s rights group Femen claims prostitutes and the fans will make “a bordello” out of the country. Read more here. 2 days ago at 14:29 |
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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 |
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The German national team is playing all of its 2012 European Football Championship group games in Ukraine - two in Lviv and one in Kharkiv. In these cities beyond the borders of the European Union, fans from both Eastern and Western Europe will meet, and the experience could be jarring for some. If all goes well on June 9, the flight from Düsseldorf will land at 5:05 p.m. in Lviv, Ukraine, a city known in German as Lemberg when it was part of the Habsburg Empire. The group will head directly for the bus without stopping at the baggage claim. These fans will be wearing everything they need for their short trip. The bus to the stadium travels across cobblestone streets from the imperial period. Farther outside the city, nine-story, Soviet-style buildings line the road. Finally the new arena appears, looking out of place, like some shimmering silver UFO on the side of the road. Read more here. 2 days ago at 09:35 |
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The EU sees Yulia Tymoshenko as a victim of political justice in Ukraine. But EU parliamentarians fail to agree on how react. Should they boycott the European football championship? EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule painted a grim picture of the situation in Ukraine. "Politically motivated justice is a systemic problem in Ukraine," he said. The most prominent, but by far not the only victim of this problem is former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Tymoshenko is in prison for alleged abuse of power while in office. She went on hunger strike for some time in order to protest against poor conditions in prison. At the EU parliament in Strasbourg, her daughter Yevgenia was present on Tuesday when some MEPs rolled out a banner with a picture of Tymoshenko and the slogan "Freedom for Julia." Read more here. 3 days ago at 09:37 | Deutsche Welle |
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BRUSSELS - Ukraine has confirmed details of an EU parliament mission to monitor the well-being of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko. A parliament source said on 21 May that Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has sent a letter to EU parliament President Martin Schulz "which creates a formal basis for the president to take action." The Azarov letter is a reply to Schulz' earlier note, on 16 May, detailing what he expects to happen. Read more here. 3 days ago at 08:47 |
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The EU-Ukraine association agreement cannot be signed until certain conditions are met by the Ukraine, namely on the supremacy of law, the Commission has said. Speaking on behalf of the EU's foreign affairs representative, Stefan Fule said the Ukraine must redress the "systemic problem" of "selective justice", conduct free and fair elections and resume delayed reforms before it can become a closer EU ally. Read more here. 3 days ago at 07:48 |
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The General Secretary of Ukraine’s National Olympic Committee has been filmed offering to sell several thousand pounds worth of Olympics tickets to an undercover reporter posing as a ticket tout. Volodymyr Gerashchenko, who has been head of Ukraine’s National Olympic Committee since 1997, told the reporter from BBC London News he had up to 100 tickets to sell. Read more here. May 22 at 20:17 |
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There is no denying that searching for a way to avoid a speeding or a parking ticket is a universal behavior that transcends both society and race. A pair ofRussianswho were driving their car through the Ukraine was caught speeding by the local cops. As you would imagine, the two men wanted to dismiss the ticket so they came up with the bright of idea of speaking in English, convinced that the Ukrainian police officers would not understand a word they said. Read the story here. May 22 at 01:20 |