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Yushchenko signs immunity legislation

President Viktor Yushchenko late Oct. 5 finally signed into law a controversial bill that returns immunity to legislators on Ukraine’s regional and …
Roman Olearchyk

Belarus opposition unites behind challenger Milinkevich

Opposition parties in Belarus on Oct. 2chose  a physics professor and civil society activist to run against the country’s hard-line president next …
Peter Byrne

Reach out for some culture: Foreign culture programs

as they would be on the rest of the continent. For one thing, the city still lacks the cosmopolitan energy of neighboring European capitals. Taking …
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Bassist Victor Bailey, to get you grooving

es Prochaines. Les Reines Prochaines are a five-woman multimedia music act from Basel, Switzerland, whose performances owe as much to Dada as they do …
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Running to a standstill in Kyiv

On a recent trip to visit a friend in Amsterdam, I stopped briefly in Berlin and noticed a sign in a shop window advertising that city’s …
Paul Miazga

Londoner Leonora Butenko, DVD rental queen

London native Leonora Butenko, the co-founder and president of the Yakaboo DVD rental agency, always wanted to be first at everything. Spurred on by …
Paul Miazga

Dragonweever-grouper, please!

Porto Maltese is a new seafood restaurant that opened near Hotel Sport and Olympic Stadium. It’s apparently part of a chain that also has locations in …
andrey slivka

City’s top pet store is a zoo

hose silly pet restaurants, but they do lower our blood pressure and we hope we take good care of them. So it was a pleasure to set out to find Kyiv’s …
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Mounier: Western banks are coming to Ukraine

French native Jacques Mounier, 58, has been president of the managing board at Calyon Bank Ukraine (Credit Lyonnais Bank Ukraine  prior to June 2004) …
Vlad Lavrov

High oil prices life biofuel prospects

High global oil prices have analysts saying it’s more important than ever for Ukraine to start moving toward using biofuels, like ethanol, that will …
Roman Olearchyk

Canada’s Northland scores victory in Darnytsia Heat & Power case

Canada’s Northland Power has won a major legal victory in its attempt to hold on to a controlling interest in a Ukrainian joint venture that controls …
Roman Olearchyk

10 Years in Kyiv: Architect Roman Shwed

Leading up to the Post’s 10th birthday this fall, each week we’ll be highlighting members of the local business community who have played leading …
Viktoria Barchenko

Gov’t has Kiss FM under fire for alleged smut

Ukraine’s National Committee on TV and Broadcasting is forcing a popular radio show about sex to clean up its act, outraging the show’s producers at …
Viktoria Barchenko

Ukraine to resume missile tests, four years after commercial airliner downing

(AP) – Ukraine’s army will resume tests of surface-to-air missiles, four years after the accidental downing of a commercial airliner during a military …
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Hungary to issue special visas to citizens of non-EU neighboring states from Jan. 1

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) – Hungary will begin issuing a “national visa” for citizens of four neighboring, non-EU countries that have large …
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Finland supports Ukrainian bid for EU membership

(AP) – Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen said Oct. 5 his country supports Ukraine’s bid to become a member of the European Union and would help …
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Premier: Ukraine will consider Russia’s interests while trying to join WTO

(AP) – Ukraine will take Russia’s interests into account when making its bid to join the World Trade Organization, Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov …
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Russia summons Swiss envoy to protest extradition of former nuclear minister

MOSCOW (AP) – Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Oct. 5 it had called in a top Swiss diplomat to protest Switzerland’s decision to extradite former atomic …
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