What to do while in Ukraine

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 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...

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.

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 front of Cabinet Ministers in Kiev 24.11.2013

    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, ...

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. "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 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...

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...

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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 ...

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...

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 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...