I’ve written about the issue of dubbing films in Ukrainian several times, and hopefully, resulting from an agreement recently made between distributors and Ukraine’s government, this will finally be the last. According to a memorandum signed Jan. 22 by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine and Ukraine’s movie distributing companies, 50 percent of foreign movies are to be dubbed or subtitled in Ukrainian by the end of 2007...
Ukraine's prime minister pitched his country's investment credentials to the world's rich and powerful on Friday -- but only got a lukewarm response from his audience which included the European Union's enlargement commissioner...
Most Ukrainian journalists, analysts, and governmentofficialspolledbythe Democratic Initiatives survey
center support Ukraine's accession to NATO. A pollof147 respondents, including 91 journalists, 44 analysts,
and 12 governmentofficials, which the Democratic Initiatives conducted at the UkrainianForeign Ministry request on December 4-15, 2006 showed that 130ofthemsupportUkraine's accession to NATO, and 82 of them believe this should be done as soon as possible
All sides agree that labor migration is changing Ukrainian society, but serious debate on the issue is absent.
Several years ago Ukraine's then-president, Leonid Kuchma, referred to Ukrainian women working in Italy as prostitutes. Ever since, the public discourse on the role of labor migrants has become more intense and splintered...
Last week the head of Ukraine's parliamentary committee on national security and defense, Anatoliy Kinakh, accused the general prosecutor's office, the Security Service (SBU), and law enforcement of beginning to act on the basis of political orders (Ukrayinska pravda, January 19). Kinakh's concern was related to the tug of war and institutional conflict in Ukraine during its constitutional crisis, which is now spilling over into the field of civil-military relations...
Ukraine's government urged Moscow Thursday to obey a court ruling on the return of navigation facilities being used by the Russian Black Sea Fleet in the post-Soviet state's Crimean Peninsula.
The call followed an attempt by Ukrainian bailiffs Tuesday to seize a radio navigation facility in the southwestern Crimean town of Genichesk, in keeping with a district court ruling.
But the Russian naval command refused to obey the ruling to hand over the Mars-75 installation, saying its seizure would be in breach of a bilateral agreement that allows them to use this and other navigation facilities for at least another 10 years...
The Ukrainian government has restored funding to the Foreign Ministry that was cut off in the New Year amid the premier's attempts to oust Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk, an official said Tuesday.
"As of this morning ... funds have arrived in the Foreign Ministry's account," said ministry spokesman Andriy Deshchytsya.
Tarasyuk, a presidential appointee, complained last week that Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych's government had refused to open his ministry's bank accounts this year...
EU Foreign Ministers have released their conclusions after meeting in Brussels, calling on countries to enforce Iran sanctions, pledging stronger ties with Ukraine and moving towards freer trade with northern Cyprus. The agenda was long for the meeting, which saw foreign ministers from the 27-member states of the bloc come together and present a unified face on a variety of topics...
Murdered Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko said he was being persecuted by his country's secret services in the last interview he gave before being poisoned with polonium 210. Footage of the interview also shows Litvinenko repeating allegations that Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi had links to the KGB. In the interview, Litvinenko said he feared for his life and wanted the recording to remain secret because fellow officers, including Anatoly Trofimov, had been murdered...
Both the ruling Party of Regions and opposition Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc could lose out after they struck a deal to defeat the presidential veto on the law on the Cabinet of Ministers last week, a website has said. Analysing the provisions of the law itself, it said that the law passes more powers from the president to the cabinet; at the same time, Tymoshenko secured more authority for herself as the leader of the biggest opposition party...
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