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Ukraine bans smoking in public before Euro 2012 Ukraine's parliament has banned smoking in most public places ahead of the Euro 2012 football championship in June.
2 days ago at 16:30 | Associated Press
Ukraine tightens anti-smoking law before Euro 2012 Just an ashtray on the table will cost a Ukrainian restaurant or cafe owner a $1,250 fine under an anti-smoking law adopted on Thursday by Ukraine's parliament, just two weeks before the start of the Euro 2012 soccer championship.
2 days ago at 18:27 | Reuters
Ukrainian scientists to hold rally at Cabinet of Ministers and President’s Administration The trade unions of the employees of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine on May 24 are to hold a rally at the building of the President’s Administration and Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in protest at the catastrophic state of science in Ukraine, Chairman of the Trade Union of the National Academy of Sciences Anatoliy Shyrokov has said.
May 22 at 10:48 | Interfax-Ukraine
Bubka: Ukraine's Olympic Committee will sell tickets to 2012 Olympics only through official channels President of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine Serhiy Bubka has informed the committee's secretary general, Volodymyr Heraschenko, of his suspension due to recent reports about his alleged intention to sell tickets to the London 2012 Summer Olympics on the black market, and promised that all tickets to the event received by the national committee will be sold only through official channels, reads a posting on the committee's Web site.
3 days ago at 11:20 | Interfax-Ukraine
Klitschko: Euro 2012 may improve Ukraine's image,  this depends on Ukrainians The Euro 2012 European Football Championship could change the attitude of the whole world to Ukraine, and of Ukrainians to their country, Leader of the UDAR Party Vitali Klitschko has said.
Yesterday at 12:18 | Interfax-Ukraine
Soviet dissidents meet in Crimea, decide to continue rights movement traditions SIMFEROPOL - Prominent Soviet-era dissidents have founded the Crimean Forum, an annual meeting of political prisoners of the Communist regime and human rights activists, whose purpose is to ensure the consistency of the human rights movement of the former USSR in the work of civil society institutions in the former Soviet republics.
May 22 at 17:31 | Interfax-Ukraine
US Senate to consider draft resolution calling for release of Tymoshenko U.S. Senator James Inhofe has submitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the U.S. Senate a draft resolution calling for release from prison of former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko.
Yesterday at 12:45 | Interfax-Ukraine
German Embassy in Ukraine issues 300,000 visas to Ukrainians in 2011 The German Embassy in Ukraine issued 300,000 visas to Ukrainians in 2011, embassy officials say.
May 22 at 17:25 | Interfax-Ukraine
Ukraine may be involved in NATO intellectual defense project CHICAGO - Ukraine is studying a possibility of involvement in intellectual defense projects, Ukrainian ambassador to NATO Ihor Dolhov has said.
May 21 at 10:08 | Interfax-Ukraine
IMF mission arrives in Ukraine to conclude discussions on 2012 Article IV consultation A mission from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) led by Christopher Jarvis has arrived in Ukraine to conclude discussions on the 2012 Article IV consultation (commitments with respect to the exchange rate regime), the IMF Resident Representative Office in Ukraine told Interfax-Ukraine.
May 21 at 13:53 | Interfax-Ukraine
Yanukovych meets with president of Afghanistan Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has met with President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai in Chicago.
May 22 at 10:55 | Interfax-Ukraine
Ukrzaliznytsia plans to launch Hyundai Rotem trains on Kyiv-Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv-Odesa routes by late 2012 The State Railway Administration of Ukraine (Ukrzaliznytsia) expects that by late 2012 it will launch high-speed interregional trains made by Hyundai Rotem on the Kyiv-Dnipropetrovsk and Kyiv-Odesa routes, the head of the main passenger department at State Railways Administration Ukrzaliznytsia, Oleksandr Ivanko, has said at a press conference.
May 22 at 12:10 | Interfax-Ukraine
Parliament bans smoking almost everywhere, according to law The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, has extended the list of places where smoking is prohibited.
2 days ago at 15:23 | Interfax-Ukraine
Infant pathology department of Donetsk Regional Hospital receives unique equipment A set of unique modern equipment has been installed at the infant pathology department of Donetsk Regional Clinical Hospital, and no other hospital in the region and only a few clinics all over Ukraine have similar equipment, according to the press service of Oleksandr Yanukovych Foundation.
3 days ago at 12:09 | Interfax-Ukraine
Fule: EU never declared boycott of Euro 2012 matches in Ukraine The European Union has never declared a boycott of matches of the Euro 2012 European Football Championship in Ukraine, European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule has said.
May 22 at 16:15 | Interfax-Ukraine