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Jed Sunden: We don’t need another Pravda

The question of media ownership – especially ownership of Ukraine’s television stations, often powerful weapons in the manipulation of public opinion …
Jed Sunden

Crimean land probe continues

Concerns over property rights have surfaced among Russian analysts now that Ukrainian prosecutors have begun a probe into the questionable …
Viktoria Braychenko

DIU secures landmark $85 million loan

The Donetsk-based Donbas Industrial Union, one of Ukraine’s largest industrial holdings, has been awarded a landmark $85 million syndicated loan from …
Roman Olearchyk

Privatbank heads look to buy sagging Polish bank

via, Privatbank – one of Ukraine’s three largest banks – could soon be operating in Poland. Privatbank’s Oleh Serha told the Post on Feb. 1 that his …
Roman Olearchyk

Firm tied to Akhmetov eyes foreign expansion

steel mills controlled by Ukrainian tycoon Rinat Akhmetov is seeking to expand its presence outside Ukraine. Analysts say the expansion plans of Leman …
Roman Olearchyk

Q&A with Aicha Kherroubi, French Cultural Center director, French embassy cultural attache

the French Embassy, and the Embassy’s cultural attache, since June 2004. Before that she was director for external affairs at the High School of …
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Kyiv writer Kurkov added to Berlinale jury

ch the German capital will host from Feb. 10-20, movie fans want to know which of the 21 competition films will win a gold or silver Bear. And what of …
Olga Chala

Lots of Scots, scotch, haggis (aye) and poems by the bard

and lots of traditional Scottish fare (namely haggis and neeps). But most of all it requires having a good time and liberally quoting the prolific …
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“Team America: World Police” in English at Odesa cinema

on the War on Terror, heaps derision on everybody: Bush, his critics, the U.S., the French, the military, Hollywood. We hear it was rated ‘X’ until …
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Kentucky-fried Prairie Party Guy

ONG>Place you call home: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Time served? Thus far, 5 months. What brought you to Ukraine? I’m in Kyiv on an internship …
Theresa White

One ‘spoiled for life’ British Council teacher

Christine Gray, an English teacher with the British Council, fits the profile of many ex-pats who’ve settled into life in Kyiv. Over lunch recently at …

St. Valentine’s Day: The worst day of the year? Maybe not

le people resent it, and the newly hitched are pulling their hair out, trying to do it justice and not look like chumps. We could live without St. …
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One expert, one stud: two torrid tell-alls

Luciw, 27, is a Canadian intern with a Kyiv energy firm, and a renowned ex-pat ladies’ man.Photo by Yulia …
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Green Day, or hitting the absinthe

history, the hype, the hallucinations. Actually, the experience isn’t quite that epic. The green-tinted liquor, which inspired people such as Van …
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Bols and stuff – a new bar opens near Kyiv’s historic center

ty center on Baseyna, near where a lot of us here at the Post happen to live. Maybe it’s our lucky winter. The place is tricky to find. Be prepared to …
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Yushchenko’s mother dead at 86

(AP) – Varvara Yushchenko, mother of newly elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, died Jan. 31 at age 86. Varvara Yushchenko passed away after …
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Ukraine’s parliament to consider Tymoshenko nomination on Feb. 3

sider President Viktor Yushchenko’s controversial decision to nominate his radical ally, Yulia Tymoshenko, as prime minister on Thursday, lawmakers …
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Sudden snow checks city’s municipal services

high gear on Wednesday when a low pressure system that had earlier dumped large amounts of snow on cities such as Budapest, Hungary, and Bucharest, …
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