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Rumsfeld and McCain, plus several other senators, to come to Kyiv

U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and four Republican senators, including John McCain, will visit Kyiv to discuss bilateral relations, the …
Roman Olearchyk

Avalanche kills Ukrainian climbers

A powerful avalanche struck a group of 50 climbers on Khan-Tengri peak in Kyrgyzstan on Aug. 5, killing 11 climbers, including three Ukrainians. Six …
Timothy Akimoff

Altitude, joy and death: A Ukrainian-born alpinist’s high adventures

istinguished Ukrainian-born alpinists, is a veteran of many of the world’s highest peaks. Bobok, a Dniprodzerzhinsk native and Russian citizen who has …
Timothy Akimoff
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Viktoria Barchenko

Waiting to deliver

And being cured of the “disease” in a state-run clinic isn’t cheap. At the hospital where Nikitina gave birth, she recalls that patients were expected …
Vlad Lavrov

Musicians demanding payment

The task has proved difficult, said Ukrainian League of Music Composers Director Oleksy Humenchuk, since many proprietors do not consider the use of …
Viktoria Braychenko

Regional airlines leasing more foreign-made planes

planes. If all goes as planned, Ukrainian airlines will acquire in total at least five, if not more, new western-made passenger aircraft by next …
Roman Olearchyk

Economy posts record growth in H1 2004

Ukraine’s economy grew by a record 12.7 percent in the first half of 2004, making it the CIS’ fastest growing economy this year, the government said …
Stephan Ladanaj

Privatbank firm buys ore shares

  The fund awarded the stake to Metallotekhnika, which news reports have linked to the so-called Privatbank business group. The privatization sale of …
Roman Olearchyk

Kazakh bank to expand in CIS markets

TuranAlem, majority owned by private investors, may not be the first bank in the CIS to expand throughout the former Soviet Union, but could soon …
Viktoria Braychenko

Private health clinics expanding, seeking new identities

Her company’s job, as an associate of the international Mondial Assistance Group, is to find adequate medical services for insured foreigners visiting …
Vlad Lavrov

Get Outta Here! 4 Summer Trips Out of Kyiv

f Kyiv, is nice. The marshrutka ride from the capital’s Central Bus Station (Avtovokzal) is a sleepy float through a storybook Ukraine of haystacks, …
Interns

Indian Independence Day celebrations!

ite the world through friendly sport and competition. Remember the thrilling flaming arrow that ignited the cauldron in Barcelona, or how Muhammad Ali …
Interns

Hip Hop Hooray! at Tchaikovsky

Not so long ago in Kyiv the choice of music for clubbing fans was limited  to techno house, disco house, or hard house, and it was all crap. Hearing …
Paul Miazga

Lunch With … Determined, Ever-learning Colombian Claudia Mejia

“The most important thing I learned in university was how to learn,” says Claudia Mejia of Colombia. Learning is central to this determined woman …
Paul Miazga

Great Patriotic Meals for the Fatherland

Bankova, where the Presidential Administration is located, has long lacked an appropriate eatery in which the street’s power-brokers can gather. The …
Alexandra Matoshko

Dial 111 in Kyiv for the City’s Best Pick-up Joint

up? Which isn’t to say that, by revealing Kyiv’s best pick-up spot, we’re trying to foster a culture of sexual license. Hardly. We’re just doing what …
Interns

Some NGOs notice

public consciousness. Forces loyal to candidate Viktor Yanukovych will quietly put in motion the election-stealing mechanism they’ve been building …
Interns

Good news on traffic

at 60 kilometers per hour for the period between November 1, 2004, and April 1, 2005 – that is, during those months when there’s likely to be snow or …
Interns
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