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Ex-city architect planning to build 67-storey tower

Lavish plans to erect a towering 67-storey skyscraper resembling the Ukrainian flag adjacent to Independence Square have not yet been approved, but …

Eurovision ticket sales delayed – again

With just two months left before the official start of the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest on May 19, the event’s Web site has announced that ticket …
Yulianna Vilkos

Q&A with Okean Elzy singer Svyatoslav Vakarchuk

t fall, leading demonstrations on Kyiv streets and performing for protesters on Independence Square. On March 5 President Viktor Yushchenko appointed …
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Another name on the list

The “matter of Gongadze” long ago became a millstone around the neck of Ukraine. And, despite the new administration’s proclaimed desire to solve the …
Peter Byrne

Building in Kyiv’s center

er shaped to resemble the Ukrainian flag. The plan, unsurprisingly, comes from Serhiy Babushkin, the former city architect who presided over Maidan’s …
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Yushchenko, tell your own kids what to watch

edia landscape, it was the persistent interference and direct pressure on media by the government that rightfully earned former President Leonid …
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Letters to the editor

Slivka’s Feb. 17 opinion piece about the “Stalin wine”: You quite obviously must consider yourself a Little Russian rather than a Ukrainian! What …
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Not Fit to Wrap in Paper: Kyiv’s Fish ‘n’ Chips

r cod, deep fry until golden brown and then serve it with a lemon wedge and crispy French fries (chips). My Scottish Auntie Marion calls such a meal, …
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BC Kyiv Enters Reaches the Q-finals

es battle in men’s and women’s singles and reverse singles, as well as in doubles competition. It’s essentially a best-of-three in men’s and women’s, …
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Legally Blonde, a Genie Flees Her Bottle

ll home? I grew up in southern Connecticut and I currently work/live in Manhattan, so can I say the New York metropolitan area? Time served? About a …
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Lunch with… Travel Writer and Model Marysya Horobets

It’s an odd job combination: magazine travel writer, model, tourism spokesperson and budding actress. But charming Marysya Horobets handles it …
Olga Chala

Subcontinental drift: New Indian Food Stop

I like Indian food. Not only because it’s good. Not because I’m a fan of Indian pop or sumptuous interior decoration or heavily incensed air. It’s …
Viktoria Barchenko

Give a True Residents’ Tour of Kyiv

Just about every Kyiv city tour involves the same old things: old churches, old monasteries, old gates – frankly, it  can get kind of old, not to …
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Report: Russian peacekeepers on alert in Moldovan separatist region before March 6 vote

MOSCOW (AP) – Russia has placed its peacekeeping troops in Moldova’s separatist region of Trans-Dniester on alert before March 6 parliamentary …
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Kuchma returns home after ex-minister’s death

The former Interior Minister was to have been questioned in a killing Kuchma’s opponents have claimed is linked to both men. Kuchma cut short a …
Peter Byrne

Former interior minister shot dead

ound dead at his country house, Ukrainian news agencies reported Friday. Interfax-Ukraine, citing a police source, said Kravchenko had allegedly …
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Ukraine’s former interior minister found dead

KYIV (AP) – Ukraine’s former Interior Minister Yuri Kravchenko has been found dead at his country house, Ukrainian news agencies reported …
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Female entrepreneurs: Kyiv’s better half

When asked what it’s like to be an entrepreneur who is both  foreigner and female in Ukraine, Claudia Mejia smiles. “It is usually a surprise for our …
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