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The first International Forum on the Economic Development of Ukraine gathered at the Newseum, the internationally known museum of news, in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 15. The event was held in conjunction with the second bilateral trade and investment relations meeting between the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) on Oct. 14. 16 October, 16:13 | Melnyk Yuliya |
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The Seventh Washington Ukrainian Festival combined with unusually warm weather for this time of the year to attract many U.S. visitors to Silver Spring, Maryland, on Sept. 19-20. 21 September, 13:11 | Melnyk Yuliya |
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Kremlin-backed media will do anything to promote anti-Ukrainian sentiment, even twist another country’s leader’s statements, writes Yuriy Lukanov. 20 August, 19:20 | Lukanov Yuriy |
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Yuriy Lukanov asks: Why do leaders cling to Soviet myths, such as working ‘hero’ Stakhanov? 06 August, 20:50 | Lukanov Yuriy |
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In a time of Facebook, citizen journalists, enormous numbers of international social websites and the new ‘reset’ with Russia, Americans still remember the Nixon-Khrushchev “kitchen debate” during the 1959 U.S. exhibition in Moscow. 27 July, 13:41 | Melnyk Yuliya |
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The July 21 arrest of ex-Interior Ministry general Oleksiy Pukach, a suspect in the 2000 murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze, came on the same weekend that President Victor Yushchenko declared his re-election bid for the Jan. 17, 2010, presidential election. Were these two events merely coincidences or a bizarre attempt to rekindle Yushchenko’s popularity above its paltry 2-3 percent? 24 July, 15:08 | Kuzio Taras |
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Yuriy Lukanov writes, that he still doesn’t understand why Gongadze was murdered 23 July, 23:04 | Lukanov Yuriy |
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Yuriy Lukanov cannot hide his amusement over the recent vandalism of the monument to Vladimir Lenin on Taras Shevchenko Boulevard. 16 July, 19:37 | Lukanov Yuriy |
Ever since the 2004 Orange Revolution, it was possible to feel optimistic about the situation concerning freedom of speech in Ukraine. 15 July, 13:07 | Sunden Jed |
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The recent Russia-U.S. summit bore the first strategic arms reduction movement in seven years. This was duly dangled before the world’s eyes as an achievement, something to sing and dance about; Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama gazing out into a new world – as Shaun Walker, for the Independent dubbed it, a “post-Cold War world.” 14 July, 14:03 | Sylvester Roland |