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Hayden Panettiere joins fiancé Wladimir Klitschko in Ukraine protests

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Hayden Panettiere has joined the demonstrations in Ukraine. The 24-year-old actress shared a photo of herself protesting in Kiev, Ukraine, alongside her Ukrainan boxer fiancé Wladimir Klitschko. Klitschko's brother is opposition leader Vitali Klitschko, and the "Nashville" actress is there to support her beau's family and their country. "Amazing watching #WladimirKlitschko personally connect with the Ukrainian demonstrators," Panettiere tweeted on Dec. 8. She then shared the pic with her husband-to-be, captioning it, "#frontlines #Ukraine." A video of Panettiere addressing the crowd of protesters, who are there to challenge the Russian-leaning government, at the square in Kiev. "The beauty of this country is breathtaking: the landscape, the beautiful churches. But nothing compares to the undeniably deep souls of the Ukrainian people," she said. "There is a movement happening here and we have a chance to mak

Storming of #Euromaidan Kiev 11/12/2013 Video

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Storming of #Euromaidan Kiev 11/12/2013 Video Police storming #Maydan territory.     This Smoke Grenade    was used by storming Maydan.

Klitschko by use of hard Russian slang is backing crowd from the police. Video

Klitschko by use of hard Russian slang is backing crowd from the police. Video. Klitschko in unusual situation.

Live from the Bankova

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There is about 700 000 people on the Independence Square!!!

Building of Kyiv City Council is taken by protesters. #Euromaidan

Live from Kiev EuroMaidan

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Vakarchuk's Clip for the song "Wall", dedicated Euromaydan (video)

In the clip, thousands of people fighting for a European choice. Clip created by journalists of TV channel TBi.

FEMEN undressed in Kiev- Pechersk Lavra Church 01.12.2013 Photos

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FEMEN undressed in Kiev- Pechersk Lavra Church in protest against beating activists of Euromaydan. " Angel of Death appeared at the gates of the Kiev- Pechersk Lavra with a sickle in his hand and prophetic slogan on the body : " The dictatorship must die. " First bloody harvest unleashed by Yanukovych  on November 30 by special forces  "Berkut" beat children and civilians on the Maidan in Kiev ". We recall  on November 30  "Berkut" brutally beat up Evromaydan - campaign supporters of European integration at the Independence Square in Kiev. Special forces simply beat up with batons and specialequipment protesters. As a result 35 people injured seven were hospitalized. Among the victims - two Polish citizens . Thereafter, activists moved to Mikhailovsky Square . They were joined by thousands of Ukrainians . On the night of December 1, new Evromaydan withstood and met the morning with anthems of Ukraine.

Ukraine still welcome to sign EU deal: Merkel

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Ukraine still has a chance to seek a trade pact with the European Union, but she had no hope it would happen this time. Merkel said on Thursday that "the door was still open" for Kiev, despite the Ukrainian government's rejection of the EU deal to avoid pressure from Russia, which has been seeking to keep the former Soviet state within its sphere of influence. The deal was expected to be signed later on Thursday in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius where EU leaders were holding a summit with countries of Eastern Europe and southern Caucasus. Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich flew into Vilnius in time for a dinner in honour of the Eastern Partnership, the EU's four-year-old outreach programme for former Soviet republics. EU enlargement commissioner Stefan Fuele said on Thursday Ukraine's decision to walk away from the agreement could imperil its future. It was never a bazaar

The Ghosts of Pripyat

  The Ghosts of Pripyat by Steve Rothery. Steve Rothery (born 25 November 1959) is an English guitarist and a founding member of the British rock band Marillion . The Ghosts of Pripyat. Pripyat  Ukrainian town administered directly from Kiev . The city is also the setting for two missions in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare based around the main square and the amusement park, set after the disaster. Also the multiplayer maps "Bloc" and "Vacant" in the game take place in Pripyat. A small part of the city is seen briefly in a flashback in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 , and the multiplayer map "Fallen" takes place in Pripyat. Call of Duty: Black Ops features a map called "Grid", which takes place in Pripyat. A level in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and a multiplayer map called "Wasteland" takes place in Pripyat and near Chernobyl, respectively.  After putting together an amazing band to play the Plovdiv g

Wladimir Klitschko at the ceremony of International Emmy Awards

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Yesterday in New York, the ceremony of International Emmy Awards, which visited  lot of stars, among whom was the Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko. The Hilton 54-year-old Sean Bean is known for her roles in films such as "The Lord of the Rings" and "Game of Thrones" received the award for best actor. His award that night also took Fernanda Montenegro, who won the best actress category.
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Police in Ukraine used tear gas on demonstrators gathered near the Cabinet of Ministers Monday protesting the end of European Union trade talks, the BBC said. Authorities blocked traffic along Hrushevsky Street near the government building as several hundred protesters clashed with police, Interfax-Ukraine reported. Protesters hurled items at police and sprayed an unidentified gas as they called for the resignation of Prime Minister Mykola Azara 's government. The rallies began Friday in Kiev after the Ukrainian government backed down from the culmination of four years of free trade negotiations with the European Union. They continued Sunday, when opposition leaders estimated some 100,000 people gathered in European Square in what was likely the largest public demonstration in Ukraine since the 2004 Orange Revolution. Azarov said the cause of the abandoned EU agreements was the harsh terms set by the International Monetary Fund , but critics said the real re

Fight with police in Kiev 24.11.2013

Fight with police in front of Cabinet Ministers in Kiev 24.11.2013

Ukraine risks financial meltdown after break with EU

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    KIEV, Ukraine, Nov. 22 -- Ukraine is risking a financial crisis of monumental scale by ditching the EU as it faces a cash crunch before imminent debt repayments, analysts said Friday.Ukraine received warnings from senior EU officials and the United States after it dropped its EU membership bid, European Observer said. U.S. officials cited difficulties Ukraine could face obtaining credit from the International Monetary Fund after it snubbed the EU, EUObserver.com said. Ukraine's ties with the IMF are already fraught over recent mishaps, including a $15 billion line of credit that fell through. Renewed Ukrainian attempts to obtain IMF cash are aimed at securing a line of credit for $10 billion or more to enable Kiev to head off default on loan repayments. Ukraine needs to make regular repayments on more than $60 billion of external debt. Thousands of protesters in Kiev and other Ukrainian streets Friday pushed the argument Ukraine belongs in the EU, not i

Doors are still open for Kiev

KIEV, Ukraine, Nov. 20  -- European Union Neighborhood Policy Commissioner Stefan Fule said Wednesday the door to the EU is open to Ukraine if it chooses to seize the"The EU's commitment to bring EU-Ukraine relations to a new quality, opening up new opportunities for the Ukrainian people, is firm," he said in a statement. "The door for such a qualitative step forward is open and we look forward to the government's implementation of its decision Sept. 18 to sign the association agreement in [Lithuania] on Nov. 29." Fule said he met in Kiev with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to discuss Ukraine's efforts to move closer to the EU with an association agreement. The commissioner said he had assurances Ukrainian lawmakers would vote on new laws on elections, judicial reform and the medical treatment of prisoner's abroad during the Thursday session. Lawmakers are mulling a bill that would release jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymo

Ukraine and France 2-0 in their World Cup qualifying play-off first leg in Kiev.

Ukraine and France 2-0 in their World Cup qualifying play-off first leg in Kiev. "We are trying to keep our players away from the past. To know the reasons for those failures, you had to be there," Ukraine coach Mykhaylo Fomenko told reporters.

Ukraine Can Win First Leg of Qualifiers

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Ukraine and France will faceoff in one of the most hotly contested playoffs of the 2014 World Cup Qualifiers. The opening draw will take place in Kiev and there are a number of reasons to believe that the Ukrainians can pull off a huge victory against Les Bleues. Here are a few of them. Defense One of these two teams conceded four goals in 10 games; the other allowed six in eight. Guess which is which? Ukraine is actually the team that only conceded four goals in the entire tournament; only Spain (which played two fewer games) conceded less than the Ukrainians in the entire tournament. Consider the fact that this team contended with such nations as Montenegro, Poland and England and the statistic is even more impressive. France had to deal with Spain, but it faced lesser teams that included Belarus, Georgia and Finland; this was hardly a major challenge for Les Bleues. Home Field Advantage The Ukrainians were strong at home with three wins, one draw and one loss

“Ukrainian International Airlines” to implement two Kiev-Yerevan-Kiev flights daily.

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The General Department of Civil Aviation of the Government of the Republic of Armenia began contacting the aviation authorities of different countries, informing about the open sky policy in the Armenia's air transfers. The Head of the General Department of Civil Aviation of the Government of the Republic of Armenia Artyom Movsisyan told  about it. “It has been nearly a month that we began working in that direction. On October 23 the open sky policy project was adopted and we began working with the aviation authorities of Israel, Iraq, Russia and Ukraine and informing them that we are going in the direction of the liberalized open sky policy”, - said Artyom Movsisyan. The “Ukrainian International Airlines” has already made a step, offering to implement two Kiev-Yerevan-Kiev flights daily. Liberalizing the air transfers and implementing the open sky policy, Armenia will create opportunities for the corresponding companies to create air companies in the country and organize re

Exclusive interview with Jon Jones. Video

Exclusive interview with Jon Jones. Video

Pavlo Lapshyn: Neo-Nazi who murdered grandfather driven to kill by far-right paramilitaries and racist Dynamo Kiev fans

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  The Neo-Nazi thug who killed a grandfather and bombed three mosques was driven to kill by far-right paramilitary groups and racist Dynamo Kiev fans, it has been revealed. Pavlo Lapshyn had been in Britain for just five days when he murdered 82-year-old Mohammed Saleem by stabbing him in the back as he made his way home after Friday prayers.           The 25 year-old white supremacist had moved to Birmingham where he had been awarded a placement to further his engineering studies. Following his trial counter terrorism officers said that he had acted as a “lone wolf”. But the Birmingham Mail has revealed how detectives found literature and images related to Ukrainian far-right group Patriot of Ukraine (PoU) and fascist Dynamo Kiev supporters on Lapshyn’s Russian Facebook page and on a pen computer drive when they raided the home he shared with a fellow student  in Small Heath, Birmingham . Investigations by counter terrorism officers found that Lapshyn was not a mem

Live Boxing evening in Kiev, Free on-line. 09/11/2013

The main event of the upcoming evening of boxing in Kharkov - the fight for the vacant IBO International Champion in the light heavyweight division between Vyacheslav Uzelkov (Ukraine, 29-3, 18 KO's) and Dzheydonom Codrington (USA, 21-3, 17 KO's) and prof. debut of 2012 Olympic champion in the heavyweight Alexander Usik(Ukraine) vs. Felipe Romero (Mexico, 01/07/16, 11 KOs) - will be broadcast on TV channel "Inter" (start broadcasting - November 9, at 22:25 on Kiev). Vyacheslav Uzelkov (Ukraine, 29-3 , 18 KO's) - Dzheydon Codrington (USA, 21-3 , 17 KO's) 12 rounds for the vacant IBO International Champion Light Heavyweight (up to 79.379 kg) Alexander Usik (Ukraine, prof. Debut) - Felipe Romero (Mexico, 01/07/16 , 11 KOs) 6 rounds in the first heavyweight (up to 90.717 kg) Omar Salama ( Russia , 7-0 , 6 KOs) - Ravshanbek Dzhabbarov (Uzbekistan, 11-4-1 , 5 KOs ) 10 rounds for the vacant world title among youth with IBO Light Heavyweight (up to 79.379 k

Ukraine approves 2022 Winter Olympic bid from Lviv

KIEV, UKRAINE  — The Ukrainian city of Lviv is entering the race for the 2022 Winter Olympics. The Ukraine National Olympic Committee and Lviv city officials signed letters Tuesday declaring their intent to bid for the games. Lviv would host the ice venues, while the ski events would take place in the nearby Carpathian mountains. Nov. 14 is the deadline for submission of bids to the International Olympic Committee. China said Tuesday that it submitted a 2022 bid from Beijing and the northern Chinese city of Zhangjiakou. Almaty, Kazakhstan, has also already officially lodged a 2022 bid. Other potential contenders include Oslo, Norway; Munich; and a joint bid from Poland and Slovakia. The IOC will select the 2022 host city in 2015. Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/11/05/3342975/ukraine-approves-2022-winter-olympic.html#storylink=cpy

Ukraine squad for World Cup qualifying playoff

Ukraine coach Mykhaylo Fomenko named the following 25-man squad on Tuesday for the two-legged World Cup qualifying playoff against France. Ukraine host France on November 15 in Kiev with the return game to be played in Paris four days later. Goalkeepers: Andriy Pyatov (Shakhtar Donetsk), Rustam Hudzhamov (Illichivets), Maxym Koval (Dynamo Kiev) Defenders: Oleksander Kucher (Shakhtar Donetsk), Yaroslav Rakitsky (Shakhtar Donetsk), Vyacheslav Shevchuk (Shakhtar Donetsk), Evhen Khacheridi (Dynamo Kiev), Artem Fedetsky (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Vitaliy Mandzyuk (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk) Midfielders: Oleh Gusyev (Dynamo Kiev), Andriy Yarmolenko (Dynamo Kiev), Roman Bezus (Dynamo Kiev), Serhiy Sydorchuk (Dynamo Kiev), Evhen Konoplyanka (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Ruslan Rotan (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Anatoly Tymoshchuk (Bayern Munich), Mykola Morozyuk (Metalurh Donetsk), Taras Stepanenko (Shakhtar Donetsk), Edmar (Metalist Kharkiv), Denys Dedechko (Vorskla Poltava), Dmytro Homchenovsky (Zo

The beauty of mathematics

Ukraine’s Third Recession Since 2008 Confirmed on Industry Drop

Ukraine’s economy slipped into its third recession since 2008 in the third quarter as industrial production plummeted. Gross domestic product fell 0.4 percent from the previous three months after shrinking 0.5 percent in the second quarter, the state statistics committee, based in the capital, Kiev, said today on its website , citing preliminary data. GDP fell 1.5 percent from a year earlier, worse than the median estimate of 12 economists in a Bloomberg survey for 0.2 percent growth. “The economy is in a protracted stagnation as it moves from one recession to another,” Alexander Valchyshen, head of research at Investment Capital Ukraine in Kiev, said by phone. “The government’s policy to boost economic growth has failed.” Ukraine is struggling amid falling global demand for products such as steel, a widening current-account gap, shrinking foreign reserves and trade restrictions from Russia, its biggest export market. It’s failed to seal a loan from the International Monetary Fu

Map shows more than 2000 nuclear bombs exploded in last 50 years.

Map shows more than 2000 nuclear bombs exploded in last 50 years. The Manhattan Project was set up midway through the Second World War and began work on developing the U.S' nuclear technology. In May 1945 Germany signed a surrender agreement with the Allies to signal the end of the war in Europe, however, the war in the Pacific carried on and the Allies were contemplating invading Japan. They asked Japan to surrender but the Japanese government ignored the Potsdam Declaration on July 26, 1945. By August 1945, the Manhattan Project had developed and tested atomic bombs at its Los Alamos base By August 1945, the Manhattan Project had developed and tested atomic bombs at its Los Alamos base and on 6 August, a Little Boy atomic bomb, left, was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, followed by a Fat Man bomb,right, on Nagasaki three days later. The blasts are said to have killed a total of 245,000 deaths by November 1945 and the effects from radiation are still reported to this d

New grain terminal launched in Odessa port

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  Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Olekandr Vilkul has launched of a new pilot grain-handling complex "Brooklyn-Kiev" Ltd in the Odessa commercial sea port, the Information-analytical Bulletin of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine informs. New grain elevator at Androsovsky breakwater is a unique, modern, high-tech handling complex, which is unparalleled at Odessa port both by scope of simultaneous storage and planned annual turnover. Capacity of the terminal is 4 million tons of grain annually. The terminal includes a berth (254 meters length and 12.5 meters depth at the boundary), which can take vessels up to 60 tons of dead weight. The grain terminal (designed for 240 tons of simultaneous grain storage) will be one of the most advanced terminals at the Black Sea. Total project cost is 125 million USD, of which 95 million USD of investments and the rest is ensured by the port. The terminal's startup created 230 jobs for Odessa. Experts s

Fenerbahce Ulker defeat Budivelnik Kiev 102-84 in Kiev Ukraine

Men's basketball team Fenerbahce Ulker of Turkey defeated Ukraine's Budivelnik Kiev 102-84 in the first game of Group A in Turkish Airlines Euroleague.   The match, played in 'Palace of Sport' was refereed by Sreten Radovic from Croatia, Carmelo Paternico from Italy and Apostolas Kalpakas from Sweden. Bo McCalebb with 11, Nemanje Bjelica with 11, Melih with 12, Linas Kleiza with 12, Gasper Vidmar with 9, Luka Zoric with 10, Kenan with 2, Bojan Bogdanovic with 21 and Emir Preldzic with 14 played and scored for Turkey.  Blake Ahearn with 16, Darjus Lavrinovic with 21, Artur Drozdov, Sergiy Gorbenko with 2, Janis Strelnieks with 14, Michailis Anisimov with 3, Andriy Lebedintsev, Oleksandr Tishchenko, Kostiantyn Aniliienko with 2, Micah Downs with 7, Ricky Minard with 7 and Dajuan Summers with 12 played and scored for Ukraine. First period: 15-18 Half time: 43-41 Third period: 77-71

Usyk vs Romero and Uzelkov vs Codrington on November 9th in Kiev, Ukraine.

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A big boxing show will take place on November 9th at the Palace of Sports in Kiev, Ukraine, promoted by K2 Promotions Ukraine . Local light-heavyweight star Vyacheslav “Steel Power” Uzelkov (29-3, 18 KOs) will dispute vacant IBO International light heavyweight title against American KO-artist Jaidon “The Don” Сodrington (21-3, 17 KOs) in the main event. The 34-year-old Uzelkov is a former World (WBA) and European (EBU) title challenger who has couple of decent victories in his record including 6th round KO win over former WBA World champion Gabriel Campillo and a UD win over two-time WBO contender Alejandro Lakatos. Codrington,29, is known as a runner-up of reality boxing show “The Contender,” where he stopped previously unbeaten Texas brawler Brian Vera and met current WBC world champ Sakio Bika in a 2007 Fight of the Year candidate. A special attraction of upcoming show will be pro debut of the international amateur-boxing superstar and 2012 London Olympic Gold

Ukrainian Navy Flagship Starts Anti-piracy Mission off Africa

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Ukraine’s navy flagship, the Hetman Sahaidachny frigate , started patrolling naval routes off the African coast on Saturday as part of NATO’s Operation Ocean Shield, Ukraine’s UNIAN news agency said. "The Ukrainian ship has already covered several hundred nautical miles in the Gulf of Aden and started its patrolling round together with warships of the US, Danish and Dutch navies,” the agency quoted Ukraine’s Navy command as saying. Global powers, including NATO, the European Union and Russia, have launched anti-piracy missions in response to a rising amount of piracy off the Horn of Africa and in the Western Indian Ocean. Operation Ocean Shield aims to deter and disrupt pirate attacks, protect vessels and help increase overall security in the region since 2008. In March 2012, the North Atlantic Council extended the operation until the end of 2014. Earlier this week, the Ukrainian parliament has approved a presidential decree to join the international anti-piracy efforts.