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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 |
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The head of the working group on human rights of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CDU/CSU) faction in the Bundestag, Erika Steinbach, has said that she has taken patronage over the convicted former Ukrainian prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko. May 19 at 13:43 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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Jens Nielsen is sitting in his Danish hometown of Esbjerg worrying about Ukrainian train tickets. 2 days ago at 21:55 | Oksana Grytsenko |
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U.S. Sen. James Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma, says the United States should impose a visa ban on Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, General Prosecutor Viktor Pshkonka and other officials responsible for the imprisonment of ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Inhofe also demanded Tymoshenko's immediate release, charging that Yanukovych has caste a "wide net of political intimidation over Ukraine’s political system." “The conviction orchestrated by the current administration was conducted under recycled Soviet-era codes, and is a poorly veiled effort to dispose of a political rival,"Inhofe said. Yesterday at 15:32 | Brian Bonner |
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MOSCOW (AP) — Hollywood star Will Smith slapped a male television reporter who he said tried to kiss him on the lips as he walked down the red carpet for the Moscow premiere of "Men in Black III." May 20 at 00:44 | Associated Press |
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The European integration of Ukraine was one of the key issues discussed during the meetings of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych at the NATO summit in Chicago. 3 days ago at 14:09 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said some European policymakers advised him to allow former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko travel abroad for medical treatment, which he insisted he cannot do. May 19 at 12:11 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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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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The Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) may consider a bill on the cancelation of deputies' immunity from prosecution in July this year. May 21 at 16:55 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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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 |
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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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Board head of Berlin's Charité clinic Karl Max Einhaupl has expressed doubt that Ukraine can create conditions necessary for the successful treatment Ukraine's former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko. May 19 at 17:52 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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The defense lawyer of former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Serhiy Vlasenko, has filed a lawsuit over the illegal disclosure of confidential information concerning Tymoshenko's medical treatment. May 21 at 21:03 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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Valentyn Nalyvaichenko has resigned from the chairmanship of the political council of the Our Ukraine Party and quit the party, his press service reported on Thursday. 2 days ago at 10:40 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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Sporting boycotts are back in fashion. Azerbaijan hosts theEurovision Song Contest on 26 May, with Armenia predictably absent. Russia is beset byCircassian activists claiming that the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics are desecrating their ancestral homeland. But Ukraine is on the receiving end of thebitterest current campaign, in the run-up to the European Championship football finalsbeginning on 8 June. In 2007, when the tournament was awarded to Poland and Ukraine as co-hosts, the‘Orange Revolution’was only three years old. There was still hope that Ukraine would change for the better. Poland had joined the EU in 2004, Ukraine had not; but the tournament was supposed to symbolise common heritage and cooperation across the EU border, and an bright future for an ever-expanding Europe. (Though one reason why Ukraine and Poland got the nod was Italy’s match-fixingCalciopoli scandalthe previous season). Read the story here. May 19 at 12:28 | Andrew Wilson |