Documenting the crimes of the Soviet Union has been a project that Jonathan Brent has been preparing for all his life. Since 1995, Brent, associate director and editorial director of the Yale University Press, has headed an effort producing 20 books documenting mass murder, espionage, imprisonment of dissidents and other atrocities engineered by the Kremlin. Anti-Communists during the Cold War, trying to rally the West against Moscow, long accused the Soviets of such outrages. But with the Soviet Union largely closed to outsiders, foreign policy conservatives and military hawks were forced to rely on testimony from dissidents and defectors...
Ukraine could offer a new transit route for oil exports from Azerbaijan, the Ukrainian energy minister said Wednesday. The post-Soviet Caspian nation, rich in hydrocarbon resources, currently pumps its oil and natural gas to foreign markets through three pipelines running from Baku to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, Georgia's Supsa and Russia's Novorossiisk...
Most of Ukraine's mass media, especially the television channels, are controlled by top local businessmen with strong political affiliations, a propresidential website has said. It offered a list of major media owners in Ukraine. The following is the text of a report by Serhiy Leshchenko posted on the Ukrayinska Pravda web site on 6 December under the headline "Political media and their spheres of influence: Pinchuk's, Akhmetov's, Poroshenko's and Yushchenko's"; subheadings have been inserted editorially...
Russia's natural-gas monopoly Gazprom has said that it will cut fuel supplies to Belarus if Minsk does not accept a steep price increase by January 1.But with the deadline just days away, Minsk hit back today with an implicit ultimatum of its own.
Returning from failed talks in Moscow, Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Uladzimir Syamashka said gas supplies to Belarus and Gazprom's rights to transit its gas across the country are "mutually dependent"...
Fears that Russia is using energy supplies as a political weapon increased last night after Moscow forced Georgia to accept a doubling of gas prices. The deal came within hours of a threat by Gazprom, Russia's statecontrolled energy giant, to cut off supplies to the former Soviet republic from January 1. Georgia had called the price increase 'unacceptable' and 'politically motivated'...
President Viktor Yushchenko signed the 2007 budget on Friday after parliament and the government agreed to accept his key demand to raise the minimum monthly wage. Yushchenko vetoed the budget earlier this month, saying the minimum wage and inflation rate projections were too low.
The veto prompted criticism from the Cabinet, which called it groundless and a populist step that would cost more than 10 billion hryvna (euro1.6 billion) in unsupported budget revenues. Yushchenko's office argued that it would cost less than a tenth of that...
Matthew Guy MLC, a young Australian of Ukrainian background has been elected to the 56th Victorian Parliament as the Upper House Member for the Northern Metropolitan Region. In his maiden speech in the Victorian Parliament yesterday, Matthew acknowledged his Ukrainian background and heritage. Matthew has been active in his dealings with the Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organizations (AFUO) He has assisted in the of public relations, business and international affairs...
Russia's state-run Rossiya TV channel has chastised the Ukrainian government in a series of four special reports which portrayed the Crimean peninsula as "a land in decay". Broadcast over the period 27-30 November, the reports accused the Ukrainian authorities of neglect and incompetence as correspondent Dmitriy surveyed a number of controversial issues which he believed to be crucial to Crimea's welfare and stability...
A Toronto MP has introduced a private member's bill that would allow Canadians and landed immigrants a one-time chance to sponsor a member of their extended family.
If adopted, the "Once in a Life time" bill would open the door for many people who would like to welcome an adult sibling, grown child, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew or cousin to Canada - all categories not normally eligible under Canada's family reunification policies...
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