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Biden: Kiev has most beautiful women @ 11:57 am by Eric Zimmermann Kiev, Ukraine has the most beautiful women in the world, according to Joe Biden. The Vice President, who's visiting Ukraine and Georgia this week, made that observation while chatting with Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko. The two had just finished a visit to a memorial commemorating Ukrainians who had perished in Stalin-era famines. According to a pool report, the two stopped in a local pub in Kiev to chat and relax. "I cannot believe that a Frenchman visiting Kiev went back home and told his colleagues he discovered something...

It was in Kiev, Ukraine, at the main railway station, and it was winter 1996, that I encountered a human monstrosity. I didn't actually encounter him; he was carried on a litter past me, over the heads of the teeming mobs milling through the station. To say the station was jampacked is to say that sardines have plenty of elbow-room in cans, and it being winter, even more so. Ukrainians tended to be small people, and hunger was abroad in the land, but their unwashed padding gave the impression of roly-poly tumbling balls of cloth and fur, and fierce ones...

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via translation - Moscow denounces politics "unfriendly act" of Ukraine to Russia MOSCOW - Moscow has accused Ukraine on Thursday pursue a policy "unfriendly" to Russia in the context of Russian-Georgian conflict and "complicate" the activity of the Fleet of the Russian Black Sea based in Crimea. "Lately the Ukrainian authorities are conducting a policy toward Russia that can only be described as unfriendly," said Russian Foreign Ministry in a statement. "We are seriously concerned by the fact that Ukrainian leaders constantly blown up the question of the duration of the presence of the fleet in the Black Sea from...

KYIV. Aug 15 (Interfax) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has invited the Russian leadership to urgently start negotiating an agreement on the possibility of using the Russian Black Sea Fleet for military purposes. "I have sent an urgent proposal to the Russian president through official channels on starting a negotiating process and drafting a relevant agreement that would settle our relations in case of the emergence of military actions, similar to those we witnessed in early August, and the ways of protecting Ukraine's national interests in this case," Yushchenko said in a commentary regarding Kyiv's position on the situation...

KIEV (AFP) - Ukraine paid homage Saturday to victims of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe, a "planetary" drama as Kiev called it, 22 years after the world's worst nuclear incident. Overnight, some hundred Ukrainians including President Viktor Yushchenko and other top state officials laid wreaths at the monument to the victims of Chernobyl in Kiev and lighted candles during a religious service held for the tragedy, the presidential press service said. In Slavutich, a small town 50 kilometers (30 miles) away from the wrecked nuclear power station, where most of its personnel live, an overnight vigil was due to be held....

President Bush participated with President Victor Yuschenko of the Ukraine in joint Press conference Transcript Presdent Bush met with Ukraine's Prime Minster Yulia Tymoshenko in Kiev Presdent Bush and First Lady Laura Bush visited St Sofia Cathedral in Kiev Secretary of Defense Robert Gates stopped in Copenhagen, Denmark on his way to the NATO meeting in Bucharest, Romania Enoy your visit to Sanity Island

via translation - Ukraine: thousands of soldiers move towards Kiev KIEV - Several thousands of soldiers belonging to the troops of the ministry for the Interior, carried out by their commander, honest to president Viktor Iouchtchenko, move towards Kiev, in spite of the order of their minister, faithful to the Ukrainian government, affirmed Saturday the ministry. “On May 26 (...) of the units of the interior, strong troops several thousands of people, took the road towards Kiev”, affirmed the ministry all while being said “worried” by this situation. “The order on their displacement was given personally by the commander of...

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Borys Tarasiuk resigned on Tuesday, in another political defeat for the country's pro-Europe President Viktor Yushchenko. The announcement ended a two-month-old court battle between Yushchenko and the pro-Russia wing of the country's political elite, who wanted the pro-Europe Tarasiuk out of the job. A constitutional dispute between Yushchenko and the Ukrainian parliament the Verhovna Rada had left Tarasiuk in political limbo, with other senior members of the government making foreign agreements own their own, and guards locking Tarasiuk out of cabinet meetings. When Tarasiuk refused to give in, parliament severed funding for the Foreign Ministry - a...

KIEV -- No orange banners hang from the street lamps; no stage is being erected on Kiev's Independence Square; no festivities are planned. Quietly is how Ukraine plans to commemorate what has become for many a bittersweet occasion: the second anniversary Wednesday of the Orange Revolution. Ukraine's topsy-turvy politics have made any official celebration of the mass protests awkward. Viktor Yanukovych, whose fraud-tarnished presidential victory sparked the uprising, is back in his old job as prime minister. And the Orange Revolution team is again in the opposition. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko's popularity is so low that a recent opinion poll...

KIEV, October 14 (Itar-Tass) -- Ukrainian Communist Party leader Pyotr Simonenko said his party would block a draft law giving former members of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) the status of 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War if President Viktor Yushchenko signed it. “The presidential decree will have no force if the Supreme Rada has not passed relevant laws,” Simonenko said on Saturday at a rally of protest against a nationalist march in the centre of Kiev on the occasion of the 64th anniversary of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. “We will find supporters in the parliament, sons and grandsons of the generation...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 7/26/06 - Paphos, Cyprus, Beirut, Tyre, Khiam, Maghar, Israel, Rihaniya, Kiryat Shmona, Nahariya, Tel Aviv, Avivim, Haifa, Gaza City, Khan Younis, Damascus, Syria, Moscow, San Jose, Calif, Kiev, Santiago Israeli Response to many years of Hamas and Hizb'allah terror using Iranian and Syrian technology in 'Kofi Annan's War' in Civilizations War on Terror BREAKING: Paphos, Cyprus, U.S. Air Force rescues American girl to Ramstein Air Base, Germany BREAKING: Beirut- U.S. Marines of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit rescue American citizens BREAKING: Beirut - Hassan Nasrallah admits over televison he told Beruit government...

A man shouting that God would keep him safe was mauled to death by a lioness in Kiev zoo after he crept into the animal's enclosure, a zoo official said on Monday. "The man shouted 'God will save me, if he exists', lowered himself by a rope into the enclosure, took his shoes off and went up to the lions," the official said. "A lioness went straight for him, knocked him down and severed his carotid artery." The incident, Sunday evening when the zoo was packed with visitors, was the first of its kind at the attraction. Lions and tigers...

Monument to organizer of Jewish pogroms to be erected in Kiev A monument to Symon Petlyura will be erected in Kiev downtown. As Kommersant-Ukraine newspaper informs, the monument will be unveiled in the framework of events to honor the 80th anniversary of Petlyura’s death. The monument will be erected by December 1, 2006 at the intersection of Volodimerska Street and Taras Shevchenko Avenue in Kiev downtown. On May 16, 2005, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko signed a decree ‘On Perpetuation of the Memory of Ukrainian People’s Republic and Western-Ukrainian People’s Republic Outstanding Figures’, in which Symon Petlyura was named among outstanding...

One of two young Jewish men beaten in downtown Kiev on Sunday evening was reportedly in "very serious condition" on Monday, the latest victim of anti-Semitism in Ukraine. The man was identified in an Israel Radio report as 28-year-old yeshiva student Mordechai Ben-Avraham and by Interfax as Mordekhay Molozhenov. According to one report, he and/or his colleague is an Israeli citizen. A police spokesman told The Associated Press that Ben-Avraham/ Molozhenov was in a coma after undergoing brain surgery. "The doctors say he is between life and death," Eduard Dolinsky, executive vice-president of the United Jewish Community of Ukraine, said...

Church move to Kiev fuels rivalry Ukraine's Eastern-rite Catholics have moved the headquarters of their church to the capital, Kiev, amid protests by some 300 mainly Orthodox believers. The head of the Greek Catholic Church, Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, held a Mass for some 1,000 believers to mark the move from the western city of Lviv. Eastern-rite Catholics follow Orthodox ritual but bear allegiance to the Pope. The move could strain ties between the Vatican and Russia's Orthodox Church, which has huge influence in Ukraine. The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexy II, had earlier described it as an...

Next Thursday an act of protest called “Burning Night” will take place in the Kiev region along the Kiev-Odessa highway. This was reported by one of the organizers of this event – national deputy Vladimir Sivkovich in front of participants of the forum "Say 'No' to Territorial Reform." He announced that the organizers of the protest have asked all the residents of the Kiev region and those living along the Kiev-Odessa highway to come out at 9:30 in the evening to light fires and candles for an hour. According to Sivkovich, "this will serve as a warning to the authorities,...

A decently dressed man decided to perform an act of extreme striptease in front of hundreds of amazed passersby in the center of Ukraine's capital, Kiev. An unidentified man of about 30 years of age was at first walking along the sidewalk and the traffic area of Leo Tolstoy Square. A little bit later, the man decided to sunbathe on the pavement naked. The man was standing in the middle of the square in the beginning of the outrageous performance. He was spreading his arms as if he was trying to hug the world. The nude man entered the building...

Interview with Jesuit Fr. Robert Taft of the Pontifical Oriental Institute February 4, 2004 By John L. Allen, Jr. Rome Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, is scheduled to travel to Moscow Feb. 16-20, 2004 for a meeting with the Patriarch of Moscow, Alexy II. In anticipation of Kasper's trip, NCR Rome correspondent, John L. Allen Jr. sat down with Jesuit Fr. Robert Taft of the Pontifical Oriental Institute. Taft, a pioneer in Eastern liturgical studies and a veteran of East/West dialogues, is one of the leading experts on Orthodoxy in the Catholic Church....

MISSILE DEFENSE BRIEFING REPORT NO. 172 American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, DC http://www.afpc.org March 30, 2005 IRAN’S INTRICATE BALLISTIC MISSILE EFFORT New details about Iran’s ballistic missile program suggest that the Islamic Republic’s strategic endeavor may be more sophisticated than previously thought, Jane's Defense Weekly (March 21) reports. Tehran flight-tested a variant of its advanced “Shahab-3” medium-range missile twice in late 2004, and Iranian opposition elements have charged that the regime is engaged in a “wider clandestine program” to develop advanced delivery systems. But, according to Uzi Rubin, a former Israeli defense official and a leading expert on missile proliferation...

KIEV (Reuters) - Former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuri Kravchenko, linked to the murder of investigative journalist Georgiy Gongadze, has been found dead, the SBU security service agency said on Friday. SBU spokeswoman Marina Ostapenko said by telephone that Kravchenko's body had been found at his country house near Kiev. A team of investigators was on its way to the site and a preliminary investigation pointed to suicide, she said. Kravchenko, who was interior minister at the time of Gongadze's murder in 2000, had been due to give evidence on Friday to prosecutors in connection with the case. President Viktor...

Varvara Yushchenko, mother of newly-elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, has died at the age of 88. Varvara Yushchenko passed away after “a long and serious illness” in a hospital in the capital Kiev, where she spent the last few months, said a statement from the president’s press office. After funeral rites in Kiev, Yushchenko will be buried in her hometown of Horyzhyvka, in Ukraine’s north, it said. The statement offered no other details. A mathematics teacher, Varvara Yushchenko was born in 1918. Widowed for many years, she is survived by two sons, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

KIEV, Ukraine (Reuters) - Liberal challenger Viktor Yushchenko won a re-run of Ukraine's rigged presidential election by a substantial margin according to an exit poll published just after voting closed Sunday.

Ukraine Protesters Vow to Continue Siege December 05, 2004 KIEV, Ukraine — Supporters of opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko (search) kept up their siege of government buildings Sunday, determined to push through election law changes designed to ensure a fair vote in Ukraine's new presidential runoff even after pro-government lawmakers blocked the amendments. Thousands of orange-clad protesters — many grimy after living for two weeks in the opposition's sprawling tent camp on a Kiev main street — were vowing to remain until the laws are passed. As a motorcade of five police buses and several patrol cars entered downtown Kiev (search),...

The crisis in the Ukraine is a clash between a people who want to look toward the West and an old power who wants its vassal states back. But the fight may already be over. Pro-Yushchenko protestors in the tent city in Kiev's city center. Kiev In another major development in Ukraine's post-presidential election crisis the national parliament, the Verkhovnaya Rada, met in emergency session on Saturday and voted to declare last Sunday's electoral results invalid. The parliament also passed a vote of no confidence on the country's Central Electoral Commission (CEC), which had rushed to certify the results of...

It's November: time for a revolution in a former Soviet republic Sat Nov 27 2004 22:46:46 ET MOSCOW (AFP) - November is fast becoming the month for revolutions in former Soviet republics -- a year after Georgia peacefully ousted its communist-era leadership Ukraine could be next to follow suit. "It'll be the same as in Georgia," vowed Oleg Seyko as he rode a bus headed toward Ukraine's capital Kiev filled with people who, like him, were clad in the opposition's color orange. Thousands of people like 21-year-old Seyko have poured into the streets as part of the pro-Western opposition's well-organized...

KIEV, Ukraine - Ukraine's parliament on Saturday declared invalid the disputed presidential election that triggered a week of growing street protests and legal maneuvers, a move that was not legally binding but clearly demonstrated rising dissatisfaction with the announced outcome. The Nov. 21 presidential election was won by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, according to the Central Elections Commission, but opponent Viktor Yushchenko's supporters have streamed into the streets, claiming he was cheated out of victory. The Supreme Court will hear an appeal by Yushchenko's supporters on Monday, and Yanukovych will not be inaugurated before that appeal is decided. Regional courts...

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Increasingly, Russian President Vladimir Putin walks alone. He has alarmed the West with authoritarian policies at home. He announced last week that Russia was developing new nuclear missiles. And now he has embraced the official outcome of a Ukrainian election that Western observers say was rigged. When he succeeded Boris Yeltsin nearly five years ago, the longtime KGB officer was an enigma whose past raised eyebrows and concerns about his intentions. But as the months passed he seemed to throw his lot in with the West, stepping up ties with the European Union and...

Business Factories shut down, employees take to streets as uncertainty takes toll The intensifying standoff between authorities and the nation's opposition forces over the allegedly falsified presidential vote on Nov. 21 has impacted Kyiv businesses and their employees, many of whom have answered opposition calls by joining protest rallies and halting operations. "We are officially working," said Oksana Gonyailo, an administrator at PriceWaterhouseCoopers' Kyiv office on Nov. 23. "But the staff has been allowed to support democracy," she added, referring to nationwide protests over the election. The same situation inheres at other companies, too. "We are trying our best to...

Younger boxing brother backs Yushchenko: "the people are the authority" (Post Staff) - Heavyweight boxer Volodymyr Klitschko spoke to hundreds of thousands of supporters of opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko on Maidan Nezalezhnosti in central Kyiv during the early afternoon of Nov. 23. An estimated million opposition protesters are clogging central Kyiv on this snowy afternoon during Ukraine's political crisis. Wearing a scarf and tie in Yushchenko's signature colors of bright orange, Klitschko -- whose older brother Vitaly is heavyweight champion of the world and who flew into Kyiv from Las Vegas -- said "Viktor Andreyevich Yushchenko is our...

"The criminals want to send you to the barricades," he tells nations cops, soldiers (Korrespondent.net) - Presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko called on the leaders of the armed forces and security forces to defy all orders to take action against the Ukrainian people, appealing to them to take care of the country's citizens, Interfax-Ukraine reports. Flanked by Ukrainian boxer Volodymyr Klitschko, pop star Ruslana, and Okean Elzy rock band leader Slavko Vakarchuk, Yushchenko made the appeal in front of several hundred thousand people on Maidan Nezalezhnosti during late afternoon of Nov. 24. Yushchenko appealed "on behalf of the Ukrainian nation,...

Thousands of Yanukovych-mobilized miners, transported into Kyiv, march toward Central Election Commission and city center (Post Staff and Wire Reports) - The Central Election Commission (CEC) on Nov. 24 declared Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych the winner of Ukraine's presidential election, sharpening a crisis sparked by allegations on the part of the opposition candidate and international election observers that the vote was fraudulent. As the CEC announced its vote, thousands of men wearing miner?s hats marched down Lesi Ukrainky boulevard toward the CEC building and the Kyiv city center. Yanukovych draws the core of his support from eastern Ukraine, including...

12 Tanks are Going Towards Kiev They are moving North towards Fastiv highway, having already crossed Odessa highway. They are using detour roads. We remind that police forces and the army must defend their people and the President they have chosen --people's President V.Yuschenko.

KYIV - Dr. Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State, Nobel Prize winner, author, and founder/chairman of Kissinger Associates in New York City, will speak in Kyiv, Ukraine late next week as part of an international lecture series according to reports in Kyiv. Dr. Kissinger will be the guest of Viktor Pinchuk, member of the Ukrainian Parliament, a leading industrialist who is the owner of several large businesses in Ukraine including the ICTV Channel. Mr. Pinchuk is married to Olena Franchuk, daughter of Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma. Olena Franchuk recently started a foundation in Ukraine to fight the spread of...

KIEV -- Thirteen years ago today, Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, declared our country's independence from the Soviet Union. This historic choice, later affirmed in a national referendum supported by 90% of citizens, changed forever the geopolitical map of Europe. We thought then that our national aspirations for freedom had been realized and that democracy would replace totalitarianism. We believed our people would prosper from the combined rich natural resources and our penchant for hard work. We entrusted our elected leaders with a mandate to govern and integrate Ukraine into the international community. Today, an overwhelming majority of my fellow...

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New Delhi, July 24: India and Russia have reached an agreement on purchase of aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov. The deal was expected to be finalised by March-end but had been delayed over the issue of price. Sources said substantial progress had been made in price negotiations. The Russians were bargaining for more than $700 million for modernising the aircraft carrier, while India was willing to pay $600 million. Together with the ship, India will be supplied with 30 ship-based MiG-29K and MiG-19KUB fighters and helicopters. Defence minister George Fernandes had earlier this year led a high-level delegation to the third...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The concrete shield thrown up to block radiation escaping the Chernobyl nuclear power station after it exploded in 1986 is collapsing and needs urgent reinforcement, Russia's atomic energy minister said Tuesday. Alexander Rumyantsev was speaking at a news conference almost exactly 17 years after one of Chernobyl's four reactors exploded and spewed clouds of radioactivity over much of Europe in the world's worst civilian nuclear disaster. "We can see a situation where the roof could fall in, or rather the supports that hold up the roof could fall down," he said, adding that the concrete itself was...

British and American experts arrived in Ukraine yesterday to investigate the alleged illegal supply of military equipment to Iraq in a mission which could permanently sour relations between the West and Kiev. An American embassy spokesman in Kiev said the team would "obtain information that could help determine whether Kolchuga [aircraft detection] systems were transferred to Iraq". There is a real sense of anger in London and Washington over the erratic behaviour of Ukraine's president, Leonid Kuchma. During a recent visit in which he discussed the issue with Mr Kuchma, Geoff Hoon, the Defence Secretary, said: "I am obviously responsible...

BEIJING, June 5 (AFP) - 09:05 GMT - The former Russian aircraft carrier "Kiev," sold to Chinese entrepreneurs two years ago, will soon be the star attraction at a north China military theme park, a local official said Wednesday. The former centerpiece of the Soviet navy will be put on display in a three square kilometer (1.2 square mile) park in the port city of Tianjin, some 150 kilometers (94 miles) southeast of Beijing, Zhao Wei, spokesman for the Tianjin Beiyang Maritime Pleasure Ground Co. said. "We are continuing to do the administrative work," Zhao said, while refusing to reveal...