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Editor’s note: Eating out in Ukraine is a gamble. Placing your chips on a “sure bet” like an omelet won’t always deliver a jackpot. Confusing menu entries in Cyrillic and unknown ingredients often require a leap of faith. Warning signs emerge as you hopelessly try to summon wait staff who seem trained to ignore clients. When the food arrives, it’s sometimes a winner, but often is not. To bring you honest food reviews, Kyiv Post writers go to restaurants unannounced, pay for their own meals and never accept favors from restaurateurs.

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I happened to be visiting a friend in Germany in autumn 2005, when the parliamentary election campaign – the one that eventually brought Angela Merkel to power – was in full swing.

Even before the inhabitants of Kyiv started walking around with gauze masks on their faces to avoid catching the flu, the city seemed to suffer from a lack of oxygen. Not long ago praised as one of Europe’s greenest urban centers, the medieval town is now besieged by cars and their aggressive drivers, who sometimes recall ancient steppe warriors in their contempt for civilized pedestrians. The sidewalk is often no safer than the side street.

Israeli jazz musician Avishai Cohen is only 38 years old. But he’s a fast-rising star in his profession.

MTV Ukraine has a new face. Blue-eyed and nearly two meters tall, he could as well work on Fashion TV.

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The only place in Kyiv where you can already see the “real” winter deal is Protasiv Yar ski complex, located in a 20-minute walking distance from the Respublikanskiy Stadium metro station.

Production of vodka and strong alcoholic beverages fell by 2.8% or 0.108 million decaliters to 3.814 million decaliters in June, compared to May, a source in the Cabinet of Ministers has informed Ukrainian News.

The Carlsberg Group in Ukraine Company has become the official distributor of the cold tea TopTea produced by the EkoProdukt Company (Artemivsk, Donetsk region).

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