Lviv municipality has decided to pay additional UAH 200 million to monthly pensions of combatants and invalids of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in 2007. The move is stated in the instruction of Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovyi...
The Ukrainian National Council on TV and Radio Broadcast has suspended wire broadcast of Russian "Mayak's" programs on air of the State TV and Radio Broadcast Company "Crimea". Chairman of the Ukrainian National Council on TV and Radio Broadcast Vitaliy Shevchenko stated the Crimean radio station used to perform round-the-clock broadcast of Russian programs...
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has appealed to the Constitutional Court against the law on the Cabinet of Ministers, which has been passed by parliament. In his appeal, he said that the law was adopted in defiance of the constitution and asked the court to rule that it is "unconstitutional"...
Vice Prime Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk slammed the Estonian Parliament's resolution to dismantle the monument to Soldier-Liberator. Its insane to struggle against history.We should honor those, who worked toward rooting out the Nazi regime, no matter what organizations they represented, the Vice Prime Minister stressed...
Nearly a year since its first attempt to bring Ukrainian language into the nation’s cinemas, the government has announced an agreement with most distributors that will introduce more imported films in the country’s official state language.
In anticipation of more Ukrainian-language dubbing contracts, film distributors are already planning to invest in the expansion of their sound facilities...
The nearest equivalent the Russian language has for the word chutzpah is naglost. In you, Vladimir Putin, the Russian nation has found the embodiment of naglost.
Naglost: During the question-and-answer session following your speech on Saturday to the 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy, you were asked about the Oct. 7 murder (your birthday, Mr. President) of muckraking journalist Anna Politkovskaya...
In 2006, sales of Ukrainian arms and defence-related services increased by 15 per cent. But Ukraine's focusing on the eastern markets only can backfire in the near future.
Instability in the Middle East and between India and Pakistan may lead to the imposition of international sanctions, limiting Ukraine's access to their markets...
BEFORE CONSIDERING the significance of Vladimir Putin's address to an international security conference in Munich on Saturday, it's worth pausing to admire the astonishing nerve of the Russian president. Putin claimed the United States had "overstepped its national borders in every way ... in the economic, political and cultural policies it imposes on other nations...
A former Ukrainian foreign minister said Monday that Russia's purported decision to blacklist Volodymyr Ohryzko is an attempt to foil his confirmation by Parliament as the new foreign minister. A Russian media outlet reported earlier Monday that Ohryzko, Ukraine's acting foreign minister, could be banned from entering Russia. Ohryzko, known as a pro-Western diplomat, was recently nominated by President Viktor Yushchenko as the foreign minister...
The Ukrainian Catholic Church has opened a special exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Archbishop Wolodymyr Sterniuk, a hero of the Ukrainian Catholic resistance to Soviet persecution. Archbishop Sterniuk refused to join the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, despite threats from the country’s Communist government, and was sentenced to service a 5-year prison...
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LVIV MUNICIPALITY DECIDES TO PAY UPA VETERANS
