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NEWS ABOUT: Ukraine

Ukraine stories: 68 news summaries

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Ukraine Prez Orders Recount as Both Sides Claim Victory

Tymoshenko still seems on course to be PM

Oct 2, 07 10:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ukraine's parliamentary elections have come down the wire, with Yulia Tymoshenko vowing to form an Orange coalition government and the pro-Russian party insisting that it has won the poll. President Victor Yushchenko, who took office after 2004's Orange Revolution, ordered a recount of votes in the county's south and east—... More »

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Ukraine • Viktor Yushchenko • Yulia Tymoshenko • Orange Revolution • Viktor Yanukovich

Orange Alliance Claims Win
in Ukraine

Dynamic, pro-Western Yulia Tymoshenko leading close electon

Oct 1, 07 7:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Yulia Tymoshenko, former prime minister and tempestuous ally to Orange Revolution leader Victor Yushchenko, has claimed victory in yesterday's Ukrainian parliamentary election. In votes counted so far, she’s won 33.15% of the vote, to current PM Viktor Yanukovych’s 31.02%, and plans to form a coalition government... More »

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Russia • Ukraine • Viktor Yushchenko • Tymoshenko • Yulia Tymoshenko • Orange Revolution • Viktor Yanukovich

Ukraine to Cover Chernobyl in Steel

Radioactive site still contains 95% of its nuclear material

Sep 17, 07 6:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - The crumbling concrete that has encased Chernobyl for over 20 years is about to be replaced. In a deal worth $1.4 billion, a French firm will cover the aging nuclear reactor with steel, the BBC reports. Ukraine president Viktor Yushchenko declared today the day "a solution to the... More »

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nuclear reactor • nuclear waste • Ukraine • Viktor Yushchenko • Chernobyl

World's 10 Most Polluted Places

Presenting the world's most polluted places.

Sep 16, 07 8:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Millions around the world live in soot-blackened cities and toxic wastelands. Time offers a reverse travel guide to the most polluted places on Earth:
  1. Linfen, China
  2. Tianjin, China
  3. Sukinda, India
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China • environment • travel • pollution • list • lead poisoning • Ukraine • Linfen • Chernobyl

Pro-Democracy Campaign Falters

Second-term initiative stalls, battered from within and without

Aug 20, 07 6:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush has announced his intention to end "tyranny in our world," but promoting democracy is proving as unpopular among Republicans as Democrats. His plans have met internal opposition, even from Dick Cheney, but a more formidable roadblock is the plan's close association with the unpopular chief executive,... More »

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Iraq • Dick Cheney • Lebanon • democracy • State Department • Ukraine • foreign policy • Kyrgyzstan • George W. Bush

Great Heights Indeed for Ukraine Giant

8-foot-5 former veterinarian is world's tallest living man

Aug 9, 07 7:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Leonid Stadnik knows how the weather is up there. The 8-foot-5 Ukrainian was declared the planet's tallest man by Guinness World Records yesterday, the AP reports, displacing a 7-9 Mongolian. Stadnik is 6 inches short of the all-time mark, held by an American. More »

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China • growth hormones • world record • height • Ukraine • Leonid Stadnik • human growth hormone • Guinness World Records

Russian Kids Spend Summer Goose-stepping

Youth movement
an avatar of Putin propaganda

Jul 31, 07 4:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a Soviet Era throwback, a new Russian youth group is said to be providing more than fun and games in its summer camp, the Weekly Standard reports. Nashi, Russian for “Ours,” is said to be an elite indoctrination program; while Russian officials liken it to the Boy... More »

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Russia • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • Adolf Hitler • revolution • Ukraine • Jugend • Third Reich • Viktor Yushchenko • Nashi

Train Derails in Ukraine, Releasing Toxic Cloud

Accident evokes Chernobyl, but officials downplay danger

Jul 17, 07 6:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - A freight train derailed in western Ukraine, releasing a toxic cloud of yellow phosphorus and igniting fears of another Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the AP reports. Twenty people were poisoned and hospitalized, and more than 800 were evacuated from their homes. Rescuers had to extinguish a fire that created a gas... More »

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fires • toxic chemicals • crash • train • accident • Ukraine

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