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...