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Sunday | Time

Russia and Georgia Go to War Again - on Screen

More than a year after Russia and Georgia clashed in a short but brutal war, the two countries are continuing their dispute on the movie screen.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, Columbia University, Ukraine

Fri Dec 04, 2009

Raw Story

EU, Ukraine trade accusations at summit

A top EU official accused Ukraine of dragging its feet on reforms at a summit in Kiev on Friday, while the ex-Soviet republic's leader complained about a delay in a promised EU-Ukraine accord.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, Fredrik Reinfeldt

Thu Dec 03, 2009

The Real Deal

Midtown Manhattan sees double-digit drop i...

As commercial real estate floundered across the globe, the cost of renting office space plummeted in some of the world's most prominent financial centers.

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Related Topix: World News, Ukraine

Tue Dec 01, 2009

WHEC-TV Rochester

Ukrainian museum claims it owns a Titian

KIEV, Ukraine - The director of a Ukrainian museum claimed Tuesday that a portrait of a Venetian Doge in its collection is a work of Titian, even as an expert warned that it is art historians who are best placed to make that call.

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Related Topix: World News, Ukraine, Arts, Painting

ScienceBlogs

Swine flu in the Ukraine and waiting for reliable information [Effect Measure]

Effect Measure is a forum for progressive public health discussion and argument as well as a source of public health information from around the web that interests the Editor Profile The Editors of Effect Measure are senior public health scientists and practitioners.

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Related Topix: Prison, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, World News, Ukraine

Sun Nov 29, 2009

The Moscow Times

Ukraine Requests New Gas Formula

Naftogaz announced the proposal to amend the formula that Gazprom uses to calculate the price of gas just days after Gazprom relaxed contract obligations for Ukraine.

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Related Topix: World News, Ukraine

Sat Nov 28, 2009

The Boston Globe

Lenin statue vandalized in Kiev

Ukrainian nationalists hurled red paint at a restored monument to Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin moments after it was unveiled Friday, sparking a street brawl and revealing the bitter divisions over the legacy of communism in Ukraine.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko

Fri Nov 27, 2009

UNIAN

Ukraine tears down controversial statue

A statue of a politician considered to be one of the main instigators of the man-made famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in the early 1930s, has been demolished, according to BBC .

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Ukraine, Famine, Natural Disasters, Viktor Yushchenko, Joseph Stalin,

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Foreign Policy

Ukraine's Manufactured Swine-Flu Panic

The global swine flu outbreak has become something of a political football in every country where the pandemic has spread, but Ukraine's response to the virus has achieved a new level of blatant politicization.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Ukraine, H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Medicine, Influenza

Tue Nov 24, 2009

UNIAN

Ukraine: A Democracy at Risk

Those longing for strong-armed rule may outnumber those who want to preserve their imperfect democracy.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Ukraine, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Activism

Mon Nov 23, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

Ukraine's forgotten famine

A political row over Russia's refusal to recognise the Holodomor is obscuring the horror of a famine in which millions died Around a well-stocked Ukrainian dinner table one evening recently, I watched in surprise as a friend's grandmother carefully swept together the breadcrumbs on the table in front of her, then ate them from the palm of her hand.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Ukraine, Famine, Natural Disasters, Agriculture, Science

Sun Nov 22, 2009

Ventura County Star

BC-UKRAINE-DESPAIR-ART-NYT

LVIV, Ukraine - It is not immediately clear why Vasily V. Humenyuk should be a candidate for president of Ukraine.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Ukraine

Sat Nov 21, 2009

PanArmenian Network

Kiev to host 2009 Junior Eurovision Song Contest Final on November 21, 2009

The morning of November 21 started with every participating country, planting their own tree in front of the Arena, Palace of Sports, in Kyiv.

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Related Topix: World News, Ukraine, Armenia

Fri Nov 20, 2009

New York Times

Russia Angry Over Ukraine Warnings on Gas Supply

KIEV, Ukraine -A dispute between Russia and Ukraine over natural gas supplies escalated on Thursday, with an aide to the Russian president calling Ukraine's warnings of a possible gas crisis "political blackmail." Sergei Prikhodko , an aide to President Dmitri A. Medvedev, said in Moscow that Ukraine was trying to scare Russia and Europe by raising ...

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Related Topix: World News, Ukraine

Thu Nov 19, 2009

WJLA-TV Arlington

Only On 7: Modern Day Sex Slaves

The woman we'll call Katya says she was trafficked through Dulles International Airport from overseas and thrown into a life of misery.

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Related Topix: World News, Ukraine, Offbeat

Wed Nov 18, 2009

The State

Swine flu infects Ukraine's presidential elections

In Ukraine, swine flu is causing electoral fever. In a hard-fought presidential campaign, critics of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko accuse her of stirring up panic to grab the spotlight from rivals by closing all schools and banning mass gatherings to combat what experts say is a relatively moderate outbreak of the disease.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Ukraine, Epidemic, Natural Disasters

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Tass

RME plane airlifts anti-flu medicine to Ukraine

A RME transport plane Il-76 has airlifted a humanitarian cargo with the anti-flu medicine 'Arbidol' to Kiev on Tuesday.

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Related Topix: World News, Ukraine, Russia, Asia

Mon Nov 16, 2009

EUobserver.com

[Comment] EU running on empty in Ukraine

EUOBSERVER / COMMENT - Ukrainian politics is like Mexican telenovelas. The characters are the same for years and years: charming but cunning Tymoshenko, dull but pragmatic Yanukovych, idealistic but weak Yushchenko, plus the whole plethora of old faces from Litvin to Tihipko.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Ukraine, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

Sun Nov 15, 2009

PanArmenian Network

Renowned painter and literary critic Vagrich Bakhcanyan passes away in New York

Bakhchyan was born in Kharkov where he studied in the local decorative art school under avant-garde artist Vasily Ermilov.

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Related Topix: Travel, Russia Travel, Moscow, Russia Travel, World News, Ukraine, Georgia

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Gulf Times

Doha clinches travel award

The award ceremony was held at the Grosvenor House in London on the eve of the opening day for World Travel Market , one of the largest global business-to-business events for the travel and tourism industries, a spokesperson for Qatar Tourism Authority said yesterday.

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Related Topix: Qatar Travel, Travel, World News, Qatar, Middle East, Ukraine, Kazakhstan Travel, Chile, Croatia

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