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Kiev — Travelers from around the world are attracted by a new day exhibit in the Ukrainian city of Kiev featuring Afghan war weapons, Ukrainian soldiers' uniforms and their written letters. Journalists from different regions have also visited the exhibition in the war museum, of items used in the Afghan war in late 1980. The museum was established by the Ukrainian government, in memory of their soldiers, who were killed in the war in Afghanistan. The war museum of the Kiev Ukraine is now a historical place not only for the foreigners but also for the Ukrainian citizen. Mostly young...

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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...

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...

Communist candidate says he holds a very strong anti-American position Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Wed, October 6, 2004 KYIV - The election campaign team of the Communist Party of Workers and Peasants' leader and presidential candidate Oleksandr Yakovenko intends to use anti-American leaflets in Yakovenko's election campaign. Yakovenko announced this to journalists at a press conference. According to Yakovenko, certain mass media organizations have reported that his placards with anti-American campaign slogans were found when parliamentary deputies from the Our Ukraine coalition inspected the Novyi Druk printing press. Yakovenko denied this report, but he said that such placards would...