Wartime love immortalised in Kiev
Source: DAWN
Kiev :: Ukraine | updated 2013-05-21 00:08:43 -0700 | disasters-news
The sculpture shows two elderly people hugging each other in an embrace that defies age, immortalising a reunion 60 years after the end of World War II and descent of the iron curtain tore their love apart. A new monument...
Ukrainian Right-Wing Bloggers' Bobs 2013 Award Revoked
Source: Global Voices
Kiev :: Ukraine | updated 2013-05-15 18:00:19 -0700 | disasters-news
Countries Topics Languages Bilozerska has approved of being described as a racist (an abstinent though) and reports accordingly in her blog...The attention she and her blog are now receiving because of her success does little good for the international reputation...
Is Ukrainian Right-Wing Blogger Eligible for the Bobs 2013 Award?
Source: Global Voices
Kiev :: Ukraine | updated 2013-05-13 03:33:56 -0700 | disasters-news
Ukraine was having a trouble-free debut at this year's The Bobs , Deutsche Welle's international blogger contest, until Olena Bilozerska's Ukrainian-language LiveJournal blog won 46 percent of user votes and became the User Winner in the Best Blog Ukrainian nomination....
Europe court rules former Ukraine prime minister was wrongly detained in 2011
Posted by: Nathan Salant
Kiev :: Ukraine | updated 2013-05-24 08:29:31 -0700 | disasters-news
Ukraine's arrest and detention of opposition leader Yuliya Tymoshenko violated her rights, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday. The decision appears to add to spreading international condemnation of Ukraine's seeming efforts to reduce Tymonshenko's influence on the...
The director of the famous Ukrainian film "How the Steel Was Tempered" died
Posted by: rsa76
Kiev :: Ukraine | updated 2013-05-24 02:08:40 -0700 | disasters-news
The famous Ukrainian film director and screenwriter Nicholas Mashchenko, who shot the picture of "How the Steel Was Tempered" and "The Gadfly," died on Thursday at the 85-year life. Mashchenko, awarded the title of People's Artist of Ukraine, from 1989...
Nude protests and political contradictions
Source: Open Democracy
Kiev :: Ukraine | updated 2013-04-22 14:05:49 -0700 | disasters-news
Femen's April 4 protests in response to death threats against Tunisian nude blogger Amina Tyler have prompted much debate. How do we reconcile the need to defend free expression with the ambiguities of using nude women to market feminism? Last...
Ukraine urged to end rampant police abuse
Source: Boston.com
Kiev :: Ukraine | updated 2013-04-11 13:09:47 -0700 | disasters-news
Ukraine (AP) Amnesty International says rampant beatings and torture at the hands of police go unpunished in Ukraine and it is urging the government to set up an independent body to investigate. The London-based watchdog says that out of some...
They Escaped Nazi Death Camps by Hiding in a Cave
Posted by: fibonnaci
Bashtanka :: Ukraine | updated 2013-04-08 13:06:46 -0700 | disasters-news
Family Survived Holocaust by Living in a Cave In the darkest days of the 20th Century, as the shadow of the evil that was the Holocaust fell across Europe, the courage of one woman was the difference between life and...
Ukraine Plane Crash: Survivor says that engine failure was the cause crash
Posted by: rsa76
Donetsk :: Ukraine | updated 2013-02-14 07:56:04 -0800 | disasters-news
Surviving the crash of the An-24 near Donetsk passenger claims that the cause of the accident could be the failure of one of the two engines of the aircraft during landing. "It's just a nightmare ... According to preliminary data,...
Ukraine : The death toll in plane crash increased up to 5 people
Posted by: rsa76
Donetsk :: Ukraine | updated 2013-03-22 14:57:38 -0700 | disasters-news
The number of victims of the accident aircraft An-24 near Donetsk has risen to five, said head of the press service of the main department of the State Service of Ukraine of Emergencies in Donetsk Inna Sedov. "At the moment...
Roof collapses in Chernobyl nuclear power plant due to the weight of snow
Posted by: prabirghose
Kiev :: Ukraine | updated 2013-02-13 23:12:36 -0800 | green-news
The roof of the Unit-4 of the Turbine Hall of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine has collapsed sending fears of radiation but, initial reports indicate that things are in order in the facility in Ukraine which had exploded...
Deaths in Ukraine Crash Carrying Soccer Fans
Posted by: Anthony Bloch
Donetsk :: Ukraine | updated 2013-02-14 14:53:12 -0800 | disasters-news
It is being reported that there may be deaths after a Ukraine plane made an emergency landing in the Ukraine. The Plane was carrying passengers mostly soccer fans who were soccer fans and were traveling to a UEFA Champions League...
Ukraine: At least 5 soccer fans killed in plane's crash-landing at Donetsk airport
Posted by: madn3wz
Donetsk :: Ukraine | updated 2013-02-13 13:49:14 -0800 | disasters-news
Donetsk, Ukraine (Wed, Feb 13) – At least five ill-fated football fans were reported killed Wednesday when a plane carrying supporters of European soccer league was caught fire after attempting a crash-landing near the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk. Apart...
Flight crashed in Ukraine at least two dead - YouTube
Posted by: fibonnaci
Donetsk :: Ukraine | updated 2013-02-15 11:45:40 -0800 | disasters-news
Flight crashed in Ukraine - at least two dead The plane was en route from Odessa to Donetsk when it crash-landed. At least two people have died in the crash landing, said the news agency Interfax. The news agency Interfax...
Ex-Prime Minister of Tajikistan detained in Kiev on charges of sedition
Posted by: rsa76
Kiev :: Ukraine | updated 2013-02-07 09:05:38 -0800 | disasters-news
Former Prime Minister of Tajikistan Abdumalik Abdullodzhonov detained in Kiev airport "Borispol". "A citizen of Tajikistan, born in 1949, which is 16 years old was wanted arrested. Now decide whether to extradite him (in Tajikistan)," - said in the center...
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