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Ukrainian rights official warns eavesdropping is widespread

(AP) – A top human rights official said July 7 eavesdropping and other forms of illegal surveillance are widespread in Ukraine, calling it “a bug …
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Fighting breaks out in Ukrainian parliament for second day

ebate controversial legislation needed for entry to the World Trade Organization, forcing the session to end early. Communists and pro-government …
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Water!

Hydropark, the ramshackle amusement park that’s one of Kyiv’s most beloved places, was born in the Soviet 1960s, around the same time as the nearby …
Viktoria Barchenko

Rent that party boat

as you think to organize a party on a cruise boat for friends, family or the gang at the office. The people on those boats aren’t necessarily top …
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7 Days

eak. There will be a trio of tenors, some ballet dancing, arias sung in Italian, German and Ukrainian, and fragments from the recent premieres of …
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Feting a great native son

Cities produce their own literary mascots,writers whose work defines and is defined by a particular place. London has Dickens, Dublin has Joyce. Kyiv …
Ryan Grotte

Twenty questions for Jarek Wierwiorsky

w, Poland. Time served? I arrived on April Fool’s Day 2004. What brought you to Ukraine? The boom in Ukrainian advertising. I work here as a creative …
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Bon Vivant Dutchman Henry Kol

To many Kyiv ex-pats – or patrons of the Drum at least – it seems like forever since Henry Kol, the bespectacled economic and cultural attache for the …
Paul Miazga

Power-lunching, Kyiv style

has been the rage in Kyiv restaurants for a while. Sometimes this fixed-price deal amounts to bad food on the quick and the cheap: thin soup, a weird …
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Where the WiFi is

Want to check your e- mail while walkking down the street? Make cheap international calls via Internet from a park? All you need for that, and more, …
Olga Chala

Foreign investors critical, but hopeful

A considerable majority of investors in Ukraine assess the current investment climate in the country as bad, and some as very bad, a recent survey …
Yulianna Vilkos

Forget the ratings: FM stations seek niches

While the majority of Kyiv’s FM-stations broadcast commercially reliable pop music, a handful of them are trying something different, and they say …
Vlad Lavrov

Corporate apartments come to Kyiv

Kyiv’s real estate market is seeing another innovation, with the opening of Ukraine’s first fully-serviced, high-end apartment building for temporary …
Viktoria Barchenko

Ukrainian money moves to Poland

The level of Ukrainian investment in Poland has officially exceeded the level of Poland’s in Ukraine, as native companies recently acquired stakes in …
Vlad Lavrov

Ukrainian travelers seeking out new destinations

Ukrainian tourists seem to stick a certain formula: if there’s a beach and some sun, they’ll be there. As they’re getting more wealthy, however, …
Viktoria Braychenko

New rules in play for travel agents

Ukrainians looking for vacation bargains have less reason to smile this summer, as new airline policies that do away with commissions for travel …
Viktoria Braychenko

WTO obstructionists

that legislation was an instructive lesson in just who in politics is on the side of progress, and who’s a reactionary hack. Take what happened in …
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Energy as security threat

was scheduled to vote on July 6. The resolution, pushed by Russian extremist Vladimir Zhironovsky and supported by President Vladimir Putin’s United …
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