What to do while in Ukraine

BERLIN — A top German official is urging European governments to boycott Euro2012 soccer championship matches in Ukraine to protest the detention of the country’s former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen told German tabloid Bild’s Monday edition that the “dictatorship” of Ukraine must not be able to use the June championship to prop up its image without reforms. Bild quoted Roettgen as saying that he thinks “visits by ministers or prime ministers are beyond question under the current circumstances.” Roettgen’s remarks were confirmed to The Associated Press on Sunday by his spokeswoman Julika Lendvai. They were the first call by a top European government minister to avoid the matches. “The Ukrainian government should immediately release Ms. Tymoshenko to freedom,” he was further quoted as saying. The Ukrainian opposition leader is serving a seven-year prison sentence on charges of abusing her powers as prime minister in negotiating a

 With only a month until the football kicks off, can Ukraine limit the damage done by terrorist attacks and corruption scandals? Beaten female prisoners, hunger strikes, and terrorist attacks – surely this is not the backdrop that organisers or Ukrainian football fans imagined for the Euro 2012 football championship that Ukraine is due to co-host with Poland in just over a month. Yet this is where Ukraine finds itself after four explosions in the eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk injured at least 27 people today, while former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko has begun a hunger strike after an incident in prison where she claims that prison officials kicked her in the stomach while taking her to the hospital by force. All this adds up to a chaotic scene ahead of an event that Ukrainian authorities hoped would draw tourists to the country for a month-long celebration of the beautiful game. The blasts, which targeted a tram stop, a cinema and a railway station, happened in Tym

FOUR EXPLOSIONS in the home town of Ukraine’s jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko have injured 27 people just weeks before the country co-hosts the Euro 2012 football championship. The bombs exploded in quick succession yesterday around the city of Dnipropetrovsk in what officials called a suspected “terrorist attack”. “For us, this is the latest challenge for the whole country,” said President Viktor Yanukovich. “We will think how to respond properly. I think we will manage. It is sad that this happened.” Dnipropetrovsk is not a host city for Euro 2012, which starts in six weeks in Ukraine and Poland. It is a major industrial hub about 250km from Donetsk and Kharkiv, which between them will stage games involving England, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Portugal, among others. “This issue needs to be treated with the utmost seriousness,” said Polish prime minister Donald Tusk. “An attack in our region is something that is very rare and the Euro 2012 con

England   interim   manager   Stuart   Pearce   is   convinced   his   country can   thrive   at   Euro  2012  even   though   it   is   without   a   permanent boss   less   than   two   months   before   the   tournament   starts . Pearce   has   been   England ' s   temporary   coach   since   Fabio Capello ' s   resignation   in   February   following   a   row   with   the Football   Assocation   over   its   decision   to   strip   John   Terry   of   the national   team   captaincy   without   consulting   the   Italian . Tottenham   manager   Harry   Redknapp   is   widely   regarded   as   the leading   candidate   to   takeover ,  with   Newcastle   boss   Alan   Pardew and   West   Bromwich   Albion   chief   Roy   Hodgson   also   in   the running . But   the   FA   is   yet   to   confirm   who   will   take   charge   for   the tournament   in   Poland   and   Ukraine   as   it   waits   for   the   domestic season   to   draw   to   a   close .  It   i

Anti reclame on NED-1  and  NED-2  to hold men at home in Netherlands. Don not let him go to Ukraine EURO 2012. http://www.nle.nl/ Hou 'm thuis. EURO 2012 Nederlandse Energie Maatschappij. According to the official,  “the Ukrainian Ambassador to the Netherlands has already met with representatives of the local football federation, who are sponsored by the company responsible for releasing the commercial.” Dikusarov stressed that the Royal Dutch Football Association  “strongly condemned”  the ad and assured the Ambassador that they weren’t aware of its production.  The Ukrainian women are renowned for their looks, with a recent survey from Traveller’s Digest calling the female residents of the capital Kiev the most beautiful on the planet. The Netherlands were drawn in, the so-called ‘Group of Death’, at Euro 2012. They’ll hold their games against the strong teams Germany, Portugal and Denmark in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.