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Michael J. Totten (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
I'm home again from an absolutely fascinating tour of post-communist Eastern Europe and can start writing about it as soon as I get my interviews transcribed. After leaving Romania, I was supposed to visit Chernobyl and the apocalyptic ghost city of Pripyat outside Kiev, Ukraine, but the trip was cancelled at the last minute. The Chernobyl Administration wasn't letting anyone into the area for reasons...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Kiev - Ukraine will pay off its most recent outstanding gas debt to Russia by drawing on a special use International Monetary Fund (IMF) account, government officials said Friday. I hope that by the end of today (Friday), we can inform you of a succ...
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The European Commission has urged Ukraine to avoid any delays in payment for Russian natural gas that could spark cut-offs in flow to EU consumers
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Moscow/Kiev - Winter is fast approaching, and chilling hints of new heating disruptions ahead are wafting westward again from Russia. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been warning the European Union of late that supplies of Russian natural g...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Kiev - Ukraine's deadly flu outbreak widened on Wednesday, as government officials announced new emergency measures in an attempt to control the spread of the illness. More than 478,000 people were registered with national health authorities as suffe...
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Netizen News Brief (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Subject: txt intl engry - Natural gas deliveries to Europe could be disrupted by a payment row between Moscow and Kiev, Russia's Vladimir Putin told the EU on Sunday. Ukraine is the most important land route for Russian gas into the West. It would not be the first time Russia has cut gas supplies to western Europe via Ukraine... READ MORE
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Kiev- Ukrainian traffic police halted a Russian army lorry column reportedly loaded with cruise missiles, the Interfax news agency reported Tuesday. The stand-off took place in the Black Sea port city of Sevastopol after Ukrainian officials stopped a...
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Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
KIEV, Ukraine - Urging its citizens not to panic, Ukraine today closed the nation's schools for a week to avoid the spread of swine flu and suggested that nightclubs,...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Ukraine raised its death toll from flu and respiratory problems on Monday, while Kiev's mayor suggested a Champions League match should be played without spectators amid a swine flu scare. Kiev had made an urgent appeal to world powers for help battling the spread of the A(H1N1) virus on Sunday, after declaring 60 people had died of respiratory complications and flu. The health ministry put this figure...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
KIEV, Ukraine -- Urging its citizens not to panic, Ukraine on Monday closed the nation's schools for a week to avoid the spread of swine flu and suggested that nightclubs, cinemas and food markets in the west also shut down.
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Global Security (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
All education establishments in Ukraine's capital closed until further notice due to a flu epidemic that has killed 53 people.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukraine is in a panic about swine flu, with officials closing schools, imposing travel restrictions and limiting public gatherings. Yet many suspect that politics, not health issues, are behind the uproar.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Kiev - The death toll from what has been described as a flu epidemic in Ukraine continued to climb on Monday, as medical assistance from other countries began arriving in the former Soviet republic. Health Ministry figures placed the number of dead f...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Kiev - Ukraine's swine flu death toll continued rising on Monday, as medical assistance from other countries began arriving in the former Soviet republic for what authorities there term an epidemic. Health Ministry figures put the number of dead at 6...
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Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Natural gas deliveries to Europe could be disrupted by a payment row between Moscow and Kiev, Russia's Vladimir Putin told the EU on Sunday. Ukraine is the most important land route for Russian gas into the West.
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aarkstore | 06/05/2009
THE NOVEL, WHICH IS READ ALL OVER THE WORLD Set in free-wheeling and semi-lawless Kiev in mid-1990’s, The Steel Barons is the story of thirty year old American lawyer Jack Parker, who gets stranded in Ukraine, where he is befriended by Sergei, a black marketer. With a loan from Sergei, Jack opens a law office and thansforms himself from a native American to a steel baron, with a personal army of ex-KGB...