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News Source: Kommersant
| 11 months ago
Ukraine finalized past Saturday the events staged to memorialize the mass famine of 1932-1933, the so-cold Holodomor . Although nearly all presidents invited by Viktor Yushchenko had refused to attend the mourning actions, Ukrainian president had a...
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News Source: Moscow Times
| 11 months ago
Yushchenko was speaking at the opening of a 26-meter monument to mark the 75th anniversary of the famine at ceremonies boycotted by the Russian president. Russia objects to Ukraine's insistence that the famine amounts to "genocide" against Ukraine's...
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News Source: The Daily Telegraph
| 11 months ago
Benedict overnight prayed for the millions who perished in Ukraine's mass famine of the 1930s engineered by Josef Stalin and said he hoped human rights could no longer be denied in the name of ideology. Ukraine marked the 75th anniversary of the...
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News Source: Al Jazeera
| 11 months ago
Russia's state-owned energy company, Gazprom, will cut off gas deliveries to Ukraine on January 1 unless a new contract is signed, a company spokesman has said. "We would like to avoid such a scenario, we would like to agree on everything before New...
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News Source: United Press International
| 11 months ago
Russia's energy giant Gazprom announced Saturday it will not continue to make gas deliveries to Ukraine in the absence of a new contract. Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov said he would like to avoid cutting off gas supplies to Ukraine, RIA Novosti...
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News Source: Voice of America
| 11 months ago
Leaders from around the world Saturday marked the 75th anniversary of the famine that the ripped through the Ukraine in the early 1930s, as Ukrainian leaders seek to bring more attention to the plight of the millions who died from hunger. But...
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News Source: Sify News
| 11 months ago
Russian energy company Gazprom on Saturday threatened to cut off gas deliveries to Ukraine starting January 1 unless Ukraine pays $2.4 billion of debt and finalizes new contracts for future deliveries. Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov, quoted by...
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News Source: Macleans
| 11 months ago
Church bells tolled, candles flickered under falling snow and national flags, adorned with black ribbons, flew in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv Saturday as the country marked the anniversary of the start of a Soviet-era famine that killed millions. But...
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News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
| 11 months ago
Ukraine is commemorating the start of the 1930s famine that was engineered by Soviet authorities and killed millions of people. President Viktor Yushchenko is trying to win international recognition of the 1932-33 tragedy as an act of genocide...
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News Source: France 24
| 11 months ago
Most of the EU's gas imports from Russia are pumped through Ukraine. Kupriyanov said the "full and unconditional liquidation of outstanding debts by Ukraine" was required under an agreement signed last month by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir...