Ukraine is still being referred to as a country “between Europe and Russia” not only in ordinary public discourse and media, but by top officials and diplomats in the United States, the European Union and Russia, first and foremost, as well as in Ukraine itself. Why there is such an “in-betweenness”, two decades after the end of the Cold War? In her opening
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DAY AFTER DAY Tweet <!– –> Enter email: Hi! http://www.day.kiev.ua/228287 Enter code: Message to editor: Hi! http://www.day.kiev.ua/228287Enter your name:Enter your email: Enter code: Experts criticize the draft law that curtails rights of the environmental inspectors Our government’s latest legislative activity does not seem to give the environmentalists a moment’s peace. The public has just cooled down after reacting to the Party of Regions initiative
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May 16, 2012 Crimean Tatars: Report Presented to European Commission A new report has been presented to the European Commission in Brussels, which criticises Ukraine for its lack in progress in creating a sustainable democracy and judicial system. The report also highlights instances of discrimination and injustice against minority groups including the Crimean Tatars in Ukraine. Below is an article published by the
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Date: 16 May 2012 Veronika Pulišová, a Slovakian analyst, asks the question in New Eastern Europe: If the Cold War is over, why is there still a country “between Europe and Russia”? Ukraine is still being referred to as a country “between Europe and Russia” not only in ordinary public discourse and media but by top officials and diplomats, those in the US, EU
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On May 14 at the conference hall of hotel “Londonskaya” the VI International Conference “Freight and Ports of the Azov-Black Seas Basin” took place. Among the participants there were representatives from Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Israel, Britain, Austria, Switzerland, Canada, Egypt, Norway, Romania, the Netherlands and other countries. Organizers – “Business Forum” company, “Industrial cargoes” magazine, IA “Metal-Courier.” The general partner is the port
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Prime Minister Mykola Azarov delivers a speech at the European Parliament during a roundtable event entitled ‘Ukraine and the European Union – what future?’ AP Editor’s Note: The following is an English-language transcript of Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov’s speech before the European Parliament in Brussels on May 16. Let me start by extending my thanks to all present and for your interest in
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As the United States and the former Soviet Union were locked in a bitter cold war for much of the last century, David and Christy Hinkson of Smithfield could never have imagined how their Utah family might be linked with the formerly communist countries of Eastern Europe. Now, after three of their sons received mission calls to Ukraine and Russia, and after adopting two
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Date: 15 May 2012 Veronika Pulišová, a Slovakian analyst, asks the question in New Eastern Europe: If the Cold War is over, why is there still a country “between Europe and Russia”? Ukraine is still being referred to as a country “between Europe and Russia” not only in ordinary public discourse and media but by top officials and diplomats, those in the US, EU
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ENTERPRISE, Ala. – Marla Holmes-Smith’s eyes filled with tears as she spoke about a child far away who’s waiting for his forever home, in her home. “I saw his picture and fell in love, love at first sight,” she said. Holmes-Smith and her husband, Charles, live in Enterprise and have 5-year-old twins, Evelyn and Freddie. The child they’re adopting fromBulgaria, Frankie, is also nearly
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Ciena® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced that global telecoms service provider VimpelCom has deployed Ciena’s 100G coherent optical networking technology in its backbone network. Equipped with Wavelogic™ optical processors and stretching more than 580 kilometers on a critical route in central Russia, the high-speed link has been put in place to help VimpelCom cope with the increased bandwidth requirements that the
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