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Chernobyl 2012: People, Places, and Photos

Glen Browder | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Larisa Yacoubet, Larisa Kovalchu, Belarus, Nuclear Disaster, Oksana Derkach, Green Cross International, Ukraine, Russia, Chernobyl, Alexander Zabirchenko, Kiev, Pakul, Lokotkiv, Slavutich, Chernigov, Fukushima, Ikuko Hebiishi, World News

My purpose in writing this post was not to present another horrific portrait of devastation but to present, as best I could, a picture of day-to-day life in still-impacted communities.

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How The Super-Rich Are Suffering From Europe's Economic Crisis

Reuters | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Tel Aviv, Housing Market, Video, Knight Frank, Europe Debt Crisis, Economy, Luxury Homes, Reuters, Millionaires, Euro Zone, Kiev, Demand, Business News

* Global luxury house prices fell 0.4 pct in Q1 2012 * First quarterly price fall since 2009 LONDON, May 14 (Reuters) - ...

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WATCH: Kiev In Spring Time

Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Kiev Travel, Video, Tilt Shift Video, Kiev, Ukraine, International Destinations, Destinations, Tilt-Shift, Travel News

The first official day of spring may be 6 days away, but it seems to have already hit in Kiev. The Ukrainian capital, population roughly 2.6 milli...

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Are the "Strange Sounds" Videos a Hoax?

Jason Boyett | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Internet Memes, Amarillo, Hoax, Aliens, Youtube, Strange Sounds, Parenting, 2012 Apocalypse, Kiev, Strange-Sounds-Video, Alien Videos, Ufo Videos, Video, Weird News News

The enormous online apocalypse/conspiracy community has been all a-flutter lately due to the glut of "strange sounds" or "weird noises" videos being uploaded in recent weeks.

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PHOTOS: The 15 Most Beautiful Subway Stops In The World

BootsnAll | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Art, Travel, Subways, Toronto, Stockholm, London, Shanghai, St. Petersburg, Pyongyang, Frankfurt, Singapore, Lisbon, Public Transportation, Washington, Slidepollajax, Moscow, Kiev, Travel News

Lavish, old subway stops in allow passengers to travel back in time as they walk long corridors filled with antique chandeliers and other decadent embellishments.

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Ukrainians Subjected To Beatings, Abuse And Extortion In Police Custody, Says Amnesty

AP | By MARIA DANILOVA | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Ihor Indilo, Ukraine Police Brutality, Amnesty Report Ukraine Police, Ukrainian Police, Kiev Police, Ukrainian Policy Brutality, Police Beatings Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine, Amnesty Ukrainian Police, World News

KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukrainians held in police custody are routinely subjected to beatings, abuse and extortion, Amnesty International said Wednesday, urg...

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Chernobyl: The Discord's in the Details

Patrick McGinnis | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Europe Travel, Chernobyl, Nuclear Power, International Destinations, Chernobyl Disaster, Slidepollajax, Ukraine Travel, Kiev, Ukraine, Destinations, Pripyat, Travel News

When Pripyat was abandoned, its citizens were given only a few hour's notice before they were compelled to leave. It has remained empty since that time and is now, in essence, a time capsule of Soviet life.

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Thinking About War and Peace

Norman MacAfee | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Anna Netrebko, King Vidor, Hitler, Napoleon, War and Peace, Turin, Natasha, Sergei Prokofiev, Valery Gergiev, Norman Rose, Richard Pevear, Rostovs, Metropolitan Opera, Sergei Bondarchuk, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, NBC Opera Theatre, Bulgarian State Opera, Vilcek Foundation, Bolshoi Opera, Kiev, Henry Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, Nino Rota, Larissa Volokhonsky, Tolstoy, General Kutuzov, Prague Spring, Andrei Bolkonsky, Moscow, D. W. Griffith, The Crowd, Pierre Bezuhov, Mikhail Gorbachev, Constance Garnett, The Big Parade, Arts News

When I first saw Bondarchuk's "War and Peace," in 1968, in New York, it was presented in two parts and ran six hours. You went in the afternoon, broke for dinner, then came back for the rest. It was stupendous.

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Gaddafi's Nurse Speaks Out Against Mistress Rumors

Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Libya, Moammar Gaddafi, Moammar Gaddafi Nurse, Libya Anti-Government Protests, Kiev, Ukraine, Gaddafi Health, Oksana Balinskaya, Libya Protests, World News

One of Muammar Gaddafi's Ukrainian nurses is speaking out in support of her former employer, slamming long-standing rumors that the man they call "Pap...

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Amazing Photographs Of Crimea, The 'Jewel Of Two Crowns'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Crimea, Crimean Peninsula, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Kiev, Black Sea, Ukraine, Slidefullscreen, World News

The April issue of National Geographic takes an in-depth look at Crimea. As writer Cathy Newman discovers, the beautiful peninsula may be a tourists' ...

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Gaddafi's 'Voluptuous Blonde' Nurse Flees

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Libya, Moammar Gadhafi Blonde, Galyna Kolotnytska@Y:World, Moammar Gadhafi, Moammar Gadhafi Nurse, Kiev, Ukraine, Tripoli, Libya Protests, World News

Known as one of Moammar Gaddafi's most loyal confidantes, a Ukrainian nurse once described by a U.S. diplomat as a "voluptuous blonde" has nonetheless...

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Henry Rollins at Largo: Hero Time Starts Right Now

S.X. Rosenstock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greg Ginn, Social Distortion, Raymond Pettibon, Black Flag, Suicidal-Tendencies, Kiev, Orange County Music Awards, Bad Religion, Greg Graffin, Kroq, A Cultural Dictionary of Punk, Henry Rollins, Nicholas Rombes, Fiction Reform, Jeff Buckley, Shepard Fairey, Los Angeles News

Henry Rollins pounced onto the stage to demonstrate relentless curiosity about the world and concern for it as he performed the first in a series of spoken word shows celebrating his fiftieth birthday.

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Femen, Ukraine Topless Women's Rights Group, Causes Stir In Protests (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Iran Woman to Be Stoned, Women's Movement, Ukraine, Iran Stoning, Vladimir Putin, Kiev, Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, Femen, Kviy, Slidepollajax, World News

The brazen young members of Ukraine's women's rights group Femen are going to new lengths to ensure their voices are heard -- and those methods often ...

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Ukraine's 2010 Presidential elections

Damian Kolodiy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Victor Yanukovych, Presidential Elections, Ukraine, Russia, Victor Yushchenko, Kiev, Yulia Tymoshenko, Orange Revolution, Kyiv, World News

The recent presidential elections in Ukraine (Feb. 7th) saw the return to power of Victor Yanukovych, the pro Russian oligarch backed candidate w...

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Ukraine's Tymoshenko To Rivals: Oust Me If You Can

AP | YURAS KARMANAU and SIMON SHUSTER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ukraine Tymoshenko, Viktor Yanukovych, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine Election, Viktor Yanukovich, Kiev, Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko, World News

KIEV, Ukraine — Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko challenged her opponents Thursday to oust her in a no-confidence vote, aiming to show ...

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Kristina Chernovetska, Kiev Mayor's Daughter, Robbed Of $5.5 Million Of Jewels In France

AP | ANGELA CHARLTON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kristina Chernovetska Robbed, Kristina Chernovetska, Kiev, Paris, Kiev Mayor, World News

PARIS — The daughter of Kiev's mayor told police she was robbed of euro4 million ($5.5 million) worth of jewelry as she traveled by car from Cha...

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Ukrainology and Russia's Pyrric Victory

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 02.11.2010

Read More: Russia, John McCain, Viktor Yanukovych, Yushchenko, Robert Amsterdam, Kremlin, Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko, Barack Obama, Dmitry Medvedev, Ukraine Election, Vladimir Putin, Moscow, Kiev, Sergei Storchak, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Nina Khrushcheva, World News

Russian political groups have just gained a tremendous amount of expertise in financing and managing election campaigns. This developed skill may one day be brought to use closer to home.

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Yulia Tymoshenko: Ukraine's New Political Powerhouse Literally Thinks She's Evita

The New Republic | Julia Ioffe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Evita, Kiev, Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine, Yulia-Tymoshenko, Eva Perón, World News

KIEV--Like many Ukrainian politicians, prime minister and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko relies on fortune-tellers and TV psychics to bolster...

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Other Economists in the Room

Jane Smiley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Times Magazine, No-Nothing, External Costs, Dickens, Marx, The Shock Doctrine, Hoover Institution, Trollope, Amazon, Palo Alto, Alan Greenspan, Finance, Keynes, Communist Manifesto, Proust, Oil, New York Times, Exxon, Frued, Kiev, Paul Krugman, Business News

I don't disagree with Paul Krugman, but he is missing out on some big issues that also need to be discussed and understood before we actually know what is going on in our world.

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Biden Heads For Georgia, Rejects Russian Sphere Of Influence

AP | DOUGLAS BIRCH | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Georgia Russia, Biden, Russia, Biden Russia, Georgia, Biden Ukraine, Kiev, Biden Kiev, Mikhail Saakashvili, Biden Georgia, World News

TBILISI, Georgia — U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday pledged support for efforts by Ukraine and Georgia to break free of Russia's orbit...

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Biden In Kiev To Pledge Continued Support For Ukraine Despite Russia Efforts

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ukraine, US Ukraine, Biden Ukraine, Kiev, Biden Kiev, US Russia, Biden Georgia, Biden in Ukraine, World News

KIEV, Ukraine — U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Kiev on Monday to pledge continued support for Ukraine and was expected to calm fears t...

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Ukraine: Sex Tourism Now A Thriving Trade

GlobalPost | David L. Stern | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Ukraine Sex Tourism, Prostitution, Sex Tourism Ukraine, Sex, Kiev Sex Tourism, Sex Expats, Kiev Sex, Travel, Kiev Prostitutes, Kiev, World News

KIEV, Ukraine -- In the early summer evenings you see them individually and in groups: foreign men, of all ages and nationalities -- ex-Soviet, Europe...

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The World In Photos: 30 April, 2009

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Italian Brige, Slideshow, Pakistan, The Netherlands, Rome, Mexico, Slide Show, Queens Day, Tennis, Pope Benedict XVI, Dutch, Kiev, Swine Flue, Horse Race, Indian Elections, Korea, Buner, Taliban, Radek Stepanek, Pirates, Sout Korea, Apeldoorn, Car Crash, Amsterdam, World News

The HuffPost's selection of photos of today's news and events from every corner of the globe. This Huffington Post World feature is available Monday t...

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Ukrainians Protest Their Pro-Western Leaders, Nation's Economic Policies

Al Jazeera English | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ukrainians Rally, Global Financial Crisis, Party of Regions, Economic Protests, Ukraine, Urkaine Protest, Ukrainians Protest, Viktor Yanukovich, Foreign Affairs, Kiev, Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine Economy, World News

Tens of thousands of people have rallied in Ukraine against the pro-western government and their handling of the economic crisis....

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Ukraine: Nation On The Brink Of Bankruptcy

The Independent | Mary Dejevsky in Kiev | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Financial Crisis, Ukraine Bankrupt, Economic Crisis, Economy, Financial Crisis, Ukraine Corruption, Kiev, Europe, Urkaine, Ukraine Default, Global Economic Crisis, Ukraine Economy, Ukraine, World News

When the United States sneezed, Old Europe's banks caught a heavy cold, and New Europe's mini-tiger economies have succumbed, one by one, to a nasty b...

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