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Ukrainian model Valeria Lukyanova is a living doll. The 21-year-old has used plastic surgery as well as everyday cosmetics to transform herself into a real-life Barbie. Apr 25 at 09:49 |
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A Ukrainian women's rights activist stripped to the waist and seized the Euro-2012 soccer trophy while it was on public display in Kiev on Saturday in a protest against the forthcoming month-long championship. The young woman, 23-year-old Yulia Kovpachik, is a member of the Kiev-based Femen women's rights group which believes the Euro-2012 soccer tournament being played inUkrainenext month will encourage sex tourism. Kovpachik strode up to the silver, 60 centimetre (two feet) high trophy, which was on display as a tourist attraction in an open air exhibition in central Kiev, ostensibly to be photographed alongside it like hundreds of other sightseers. But she then pulled down her red T-shirt to reveal the words "Fuck Euro 2012" scrawled on her torso. As she grabbed hold of the cup with both hands, she was seized by security guards, who appeared to have had advanced warning of the protest. Read the story here. May 12 at 23:45 | Reuters |
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Oksana Shachko, a girl with a doll-like face, is supposed to go to prison for five years. It's a cool spring Thursday in Ukraine as the 24-year-old walks through the streets of Kiev with her attorney. She is wearing a leather jacket and black boots, and dangling an almost-finished cigarette between her fingers. Five years, because she bared her breasts in public once again. The hearing at the Interior Ministry is at 5 p.m., and they are in a hurry. They walk past tall, brown and gray buildings from the Stalin era. They discuss ways to put a positive spin on the expression "kiss my ass," which is what Oksana said to the Indian ambassador. "It was a happy protest. A happy protest for the rights of Ukrainian women," Oksana finally says. She's decided it's what she will say in the hearing at the Interior Ministry. Shachko is a Ukrainian women's rights activist, and her weapons are attached to her pale, petite body like the two halves of an apple. Her weapons are the symbol of femininity, motherhood and sexuality, and filmmakers and marketers have used them millions of times to sell everything under the sun, from yogurt to vacuum cleaners. They have put Oksana and her fight onto cover pages around the world, and they've made her and her fellow activists into the cover girls of an international protest movement -- the icons of a naked rebellion. Their supporters believe that by using these weapons, the women have invented a new feminism. Their critics say that they are turning themselves into pornography with these weapons. Read the story here. May 12 at 09:17 |
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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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A Wizzair Ukraine Airbus A320-200, registration UR-WUA performing flight WU-6102 from Memmingen (Germany) to Kiev Zhulhany (Ukraine), arrived in Kiev for what appeared to be a safe landing. A post flight inspection however revealed traces of a tail strike. Read the story here. Apr 28 at 11:26 |
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The most powerful officeholder in the EU will boycott Euro 2012, and German chancellor Angela Merkel may soon follow suit. The president of the European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, turned down an invitation to the July 1 final in Kiev because of Ukraine’s human rights record, according to CNN. Read more here. May 2 at 14:09 |
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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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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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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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Ukraine has postponed a central European regional summit after at least eight European heads of state refused to attend in protest at the jailing and alleged mistreatment of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, the Financial Times reported on May 8. According to the report, the postponement and boycotts by European leaders of Euro 2012 games to be held in Ukraine are major blows for Viktor Yanukovych. The Ukrainian president finds himself increasingly isolated amid claims that he is "cementing power by persecuting rivals and eroding democracy," according to the Financial Times. “These are signs of lack of trust and a move towards international isolation of Ukraine’s leadership,” Valeriy Chaly, deputy director of Razumkov, the Kyiv-based think tank, told the Financial Times. May 8 at 22:18 | Kyiv Post |
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Contact: Sharon Singh,ssingh@aiusa.org, 202-675-8579 (Washington, D.C.) -- Amnesty International today called for urgent reforms within the Ukrainian police ahead of the Euro 2012 soccer competition, in the wake of the robbery and severe beating of two men by six officers in Lviv on April 21. Read the press release here. May 1 at 12:45 |
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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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Participants of the Second Congress of Ukrainians in Poland, which took place in late April in the Polish town of Przemysl, issued a statement in which they demanded from the Polish authorities to give political and legal assessment of the Operation Vistula and recognize it as repression, Ukrainian information agency UNIAN reported. According to the author of the statement, the communist government “of a totalitarian and non-sovereign state” is responsible for the operation during which about 200,000 ethnic Ukrainians were forcibly resettled from the southeast to the west and northwest of Poland. "The Ukrainian community expects from the democratic Poland an unequivocal legal and political assessment of the Vistula Operation as reprisals against us which is based on ethnic-national principle," the statement said. Read more here. May 2 at 17:37 |
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Mykola Azarov became Ukraine’s prime minister in March 2010. Since then his premiership has come under sharp focus in Europe and beyond with concerns over the treatment of former PM Yulia Tymoshenko who is currently serving a seven year prison sentence on charges of abuse of office. Mykola Azarov spoke with Euronews correspondent, Sergio Cantone. Sergio Cantone euronews: “Prime minister welcome to euronews. There are a lot of concerns in the EU, especially among the EU leaders about the situation concerning the rule of law in Ukraine, Merkel, the chancellor of Germany compared Ukraine to a dictatorship, compared Ukraine to Belarus, so what is your idea about it? Mykola Azarov, Ukraine’s Prime Minister: “Just a few days spent in Ukraine, or maybe more, would be enough for anyone to be sure that there’s no dictatorship in Ukraine, and neither is there any political repression. Democratic political parties are active in Ukraine, some of them are represented in the parliament, some of them not. We have total freedom of expression. I personally regard (Mrs. Merkel’s) remark to be politically incorrect. It doesn’t help to strengthen bilateral relations between Germany and Ukraine, and moreover, between Ukraine and the EU as a whole. Read the full interview here. May 13 at 19:01 |