05.02.2007
President Yushchenko traveled to Yanukovych country in mid-January. Yushchenko spent January 18 in Donetsk where he met with students, protesters, businessmen and oblast government officials. Various topics were discussed throughout the day including NATO, OUN-UPA and forced Russification... |
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05.02.2007
The head of the Ukrainian branch of the Moscow patriarchate church wrote that “this genocide was an attempt to destroy the very soul of the people, to spiritually enslave the people.” He uses words like “hell, diabolic, anti-Christ” to describe Soviet rule. He does not shy away from calling the forced Soviet famine “physical liquidation” of the “nation..." |
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07.12.2006
Two new ambitious transportation developments are in the planning stages in Ukraine. First, a proposed autobahn from Kyiv to Moscow and the rebuilding of Ukraine’s railways to allow European fast trains to travel within Ukraine to Kyiv and, hopefully, Moscow. Both projects would be economically advantageous and demand that the Ukrainian government invest a large sum of money... |
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07.12.2006
Ukraine's parliament adopted a bill on November 28 recognizing the 1932-33 forced famine as genocide against the Ukrainian people and declaring denial of the Famine-Genocide a criminal act. The bill passed in a vote of 233-1, a small majority in the 450-seat legislature... |
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07.12.2006
With very few celebrations for the second anniversary of the Orange Revolution occurring, the news that the Oxford Business Group (OBG) ranks Ukraine as a top emerging market is cause for celebration for many Ukrainians... |
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08.11.2006
The trial of three of the four men accused of physically killing journalist Heorhiy Gongadze continues in Kyiv. December will mark a year since the trial began in the Kyiv city Appellate Court. During the current part of the trial, some fifty witnesses are expected to provide testimony to the three-member bench... |
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08.11.2006
On August 24, Ukraine celebrated 15 years of independence. President Yushchenko's formal address at Sofiyivskiy maidan kicked off the celebrations. Typically Independence Day festivities take place at Maidan Nezalezhnosti, but protesters, who have occupied a large area of the Maidan since Yanukovich became Prime Minister... |
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08.11.2006
The International Press Institute reports that 61 journalists have been killed so far in 2006. Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya is one of the 61. Murdered in her Moscow apartment on October 7, Politkovskaya’s death shook the world and has reminded many that tight media control remains a large problem in Russia under President Putin... |
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08.11.2006
I recently travelled to Ukraine to do an internship at the Institute of Mass Information (IMI). After graduating, I thought an internship in Ukraine would be a great experience. I was right.After researching and contacting the staff at IMI, a Ukrainian non-governmental organization dedicated to defending freedom of speech and training Ukrainian journalists, I set out for Ukraine, not knowing what to expect... |
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