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Mr. Abu Sisi, the Gaza engineer, was kidnapped in the Ukraine from a train Kharkiv-Kiev in Poltava on 18th February 2011 and brought to an Israeli jail next day. His indictment sheet comprises nine counts, including membership in a terror organization,...
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Also the Japan’s nuke site attracted the most of world attention understandably, the steadily run renovating activities at sites devastated previously are surely...
made popular Jun 12 2011
The first photo of a 19-year-old girl who was reportedly stoned to death for taking part in a beauty contest has been released.
Katya Koren, 19, was found dead in a...
made popular Jun 1 2011
Ukrainian feminist activists from the organisation FEMEN held a protest in the Ukrainian capital Kiev this week to express outrage at the forthcoming visit of the...
made popular Mar 4 2011
Ukrainian prosecutors closed a politically charged murder case on Tuesday by naming a dead former interior minister as the person who ordered the killing of a...
made popular Sep 15 2010
There are so many sick people in this world, and it doesn’t take much to set them off. Every day you read in your local paper or on the Internet about someone who...
made popular Aug 6 2010
An 80-year-old nun has been killed in an explosion that wounded eight others at a church in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporozhye, officials said on...
made popular Jul 29 2010
The Ukrainian city of Odessa is best known throughout Europe for its sun-drenched beaches and high-end spas. Yet according to a new report, the city’s...
made popular Jul 28 2010
I remember that day when we learnt for the first time what Chernobyl was… It was a beautiful sunny day [26 April 1986].
A soft spring wind was blowing. Suddenly a...
made popular Jul 22 2010
The Ukrainian parliament has approved a bill that effectively rejects any ambition to join Nato.
The law, submitted by President Viktor Yanukovych, cements...
made popular Jun 4 2010
Ukraine’s parliament collapsed into chaos during a debate about extending the Russian navy’s lease on a base.
Parliamentary speaker Vlodymyr Lytvyn was...
made popular Apr 28 2010
The Ukrainian parliament has ratified the naval base deal with Russia amid brawls in the chamber and clashes outside parliament, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported on...
made popular Apr 27 2010
Russian nationalists in Crimea have burned Ukrainian history textbooks to protest what they say are distortions of the past by the administration of former President...
made popular Mar 18 2010
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s party has formed a coalition that can now appoint a government, the parliament speaker says.
The coalition has proposed...
made popular Mar 11 2010
Ms. Tymoshenko, who led the coalition, immediately labeled the dissolution illegal, and vowed to continue to lead the “democratic team.”
She has so far rebuffed...
made popular Mar 3 2010
And after Wednesday, a few days on The Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine had accepted Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s request (hugely unpopular among the...
made popular Feb 24 2010
Ukraine’s presidential election results giving the victory to Russia-friendly Viktor Yanukovych were suspended Wednesday pending review of his rival’s...
made popular Feb 18 2010
“We can say goodbye to our democracy, our independence and our sovereignty” (outgoing President Yushchenko predicts a future with either Ms Tymoshenko or Mr...
made popular Feb 11 2010
Viktor Yanukovych, a 59 year-old former convict, said his win opened a new page in Ukraine’s history, promising to unite a country which is deeply split between the...
made popular Feb 8 2010
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Oświęcim looked very grey and cold on windy, snowy-raining, dark late winter early-December afternoon I was walking to Auschwitz, a tragically-known worldwide...
made popular Jan 30 2010
So diverse, challenging world!
What could denominate seemingly unlinked, strange different issues happening on a planet and customarily belonging to different sections...
made popular Jan 23 2010
“When we get Russian gas, the problem is not the supplier, but the fact that 80 percent of the pipeline is located in the Ukraine. We should look for independence not...
made popular Jan 18 2010
The 25-year-old chemistry student, who has not been named by police, was working at his parents’ home in Konotop when relatives heard a “loud pop”....
made popular Dec 10 2009
Twenty years ago, when the Iron Curtain came down, the world gagged in horror as it witnessed firsthand the ravages inflicted on nature by the Soviet industrial...
made popular Dec 1 2009
It is not immediately clear why Vasily V. Humenyuk should be a candidate for president of Ukraine. A former customs official from the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk,...
made popular Nov 19 2009
Ukraine is in the midst of what some might call swine-flu hysteria. The country is in virtual lockdown mode, with the government closing schools, universities and movie...
made popular Nov 6 2009
Fun in Artek
Created in the Crimea of the Soviet era as a place for the best-of-the best pupils under 16 year old, a scout (pioneers’) camp Artek was a show-window...
made popular Oct 16 2009
It is really good making friends from around a glob!
Recently, I had met the Canadians having told a story of a dog-mutant - human baby-looklike born days ago in the...
made popular Oct 4 2009
I am a bit surprised, in a world media during last weeks nothing appeared of the Verhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) decision to investigate a reliable information...
made popular Sep 29 2009
What could turn an enemy into a trade partner respectful recently?
Perhaps, rocky relations with Col. M. Khaddafi is a classic example of smoothing Western stand on...
made popular Aug 24 2009
It seems there’s some truth to the saying “There is no sex in the Soviet Union.” When Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat: Cultural Learnings of America...
made popular Jul 16 2009
Russia’s emergence as an economic and military superpower since the collapse of the Soviet Union has rattled many a feather in the western bloc, none more so than the...
made popular Apr 13 2009
A traditional frontier of Eastern resistance towards counter-traditional Western influence, the Ukraine exemplifies a perfect platitude of supposedly balanced on-moment...
made popular Apr 3 2009
At last, epopee with Faina, a ship hired to bring Russian ammunition in Kenya from Odessa Port of the Ukraine, captured by Somali pirates in open sea, was finished as a...
made popular Feb 15 2009
In a resolution that commemorates the 75th anniversary of the tragic events, EU parliamentarians said the famine was “planned by Stalin’s regime in order to...
made popular Oct 26 2008
In a major shift in Russian intentions, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, in an exclusive interview to the BBC, has suggested that his country is prepared to leave...
made popular Oct 22 2008
The Russian half can now either be incorporated directly into Russia, or else become the sort of nominally independent state that might as well be. And the other half...
made popular Oct 9 2008
In a potentially significant swing of expert Western opinion, a leading British think tank has urged that Nato membership should not be granted to Georgia or Ukraine.
made popular Sep 25 2008
English Premiership giants Arsenal do not enjoy trips to former Soviet states and that was very much evident on Wednesday night too when the Gunners salvaged a last...
made popular Sep 19 2008
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, and his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko walk to their talks in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 29, 2009.Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was in Moscow for talks with her Russian counterpart,..
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