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WORLD’S OLDEST MAN MARKS 116TH BIRTHDAY IN UKRAINE
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former shepherd presumed to be the world's oldest living person celebrated his 116th birthday on Thursday with a glass of champagne -- diluted with water and fruit juice. Hyrhory Nestor's passport -- issued by authorities in post-Soviet Ukraine -- shows he was born on March 15, 1891.
At that time, his home region belonged to the Austro-Hungarian empire, only to become part of Poland after World War One. Later it was run by the Soviet Union after the Kremlin and Nazi Germany divided up eastern Europe in 1939... |
March 19, 2007
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UKRAINE’S SECURITY SERVICE TO QUESTION MOSCOW MAYOR
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The Ukrainian Security Service believes the Moscow mayor`s remarks during his visit to Sevastopol contravened the Ukrainian Constitution and plans to question him, a spokesperson said Wednesday, according to RIA Novosti. Yury Luzhkov`s statements could provoke protests against NATO in Ukraine and lead to mass disorder, said Marina Ostapenko, press secretary for the chairman of the Ukrainian Security Service... |
March 19, 2007
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UOC-MP ORTHODOX BISHOPS COMMENT ON CREATING NATIONAL CHURCH IN UKRAINE
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Archbishop Vasylii (Zlatolynskyi) of Zaporizhzhia and Melitopol and Bishop Hurii (Kuzmenko) of Zhytomyr and Novohrad-Volynskyi, both of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), commented on the possible creation of a single national church in Ukraine and the corresponding dialogue with the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church and Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate (UOC-KP). orthodoxy.org.ua posted the news on 13 March 2007... |
March 19, 2007
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PENTAGON HEADS FOR KYIV
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Yesterday an American delegation headed by US Ballistic Missile Defense
Agency director Lieutenant General Henry Obering arrived in Kyiv, where the
Pentagon's representatives and the Ukrainian authorities were due to discuss
plans to expand America's ballistic missile defense system into Poland and
the Czech Republic... |
March 19, 2007
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UKRAINE IS BEING READIED FOR WAR WITH RUSSIA
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko joined in Europe's
arguments over missile defense yesterday - siding with Washington,
of course. Yushchenko became the second politician (after Czech
lawmaker Liubomir Zaoralec) to effectively admit that the US missile
defense shield in Eastern Europe is meant for a war with Russia... |
March 19, 2007
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UKRAINIAN TYCOONS UNDERVALUED IN FORBES RANKING
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A ranking of the world's richest individuals published by Forbes magazine
has apparently undervalued the assets of Ukraine's wealthiest tycoon, Rinat
Akhmetov, by about threefold. The US-based business magazine Forbes has included seven Ukrainian
billionaires in its annual list of the "World's Richest People" for 2007 -
four more than last year - but at least one of them, the country's
wealthiest person, has had his fortune seriously underestimated... |
March 16, 2007
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REMARKS ON RUSSIA AND CENTRAL ASIA
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Distinguished Speakers and Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I would like to thank Freedom House for inviting me to speak at this important event. Freedom House has well earned its reputation as one of the foremost democracy-promoting organizations in the world. Moreover, Nations in Transit – whose 2007 edition this conference is launching – has become an indispensable source of information, measuring the advance of democratization around the globe. Thanks also to SAIS for co-hosting and my congratulations to you on the success of your Russia and Eurasian Studies Program... |
March 16, 2007
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GOODALE & WRZESNEWSKYJ CALL ON CONSERVATIVES TO LIVE UP TO LIBERAL INTERNMENT AGREEMENT
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Speaking to reporters at the Ukrainian National Federation Community Centre in Toronto, former Finance Minister Ralph Goodale and M.P. Borys Wrzesnewskyj called on the Conservative Government and Secretary of State for Multiculturalism Jason Kenney, to live up to the $12.5 million Acknowledgement, Commemoration and Education (ACE Program) agreement arrived at under the previous Liberal government with representatives of the Ukrainian Canadian community. Noting that the Conservatives have been announcing a billion dollars a day in the lead-up to the budget, Wrzesnewsky made the following statement... |
March 16, 2007
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WHY PUTIN IS GOING TO THE VATICAN
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On a recent trip to Jordan, Russian President Vladimir Putin asked his host,
King Abdullah II, if he could pray on the banks of the Jordan River.
The king, seeing that Putin didn't have a decent place to pray, granted him
a hectare of land on the river bank. Upon his return to Moscow, Putin handed
over the land to the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Aleksy II... |
March 16, 2007
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GAZPROM EYES OBLAST-LEVEL GAS NETWORKS IN UKRAINE
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Since the law initiated by opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko and adopted by parliament on February 6 has banned any form of alienating gas transit
pipelines and other Naftohaz Ukraine-owned assets (see EDM, February 7),
Russia’s Gazprom and officials in Kyiv seem to be adjusting their approach... |
March 16, 2007
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