With a Parliament like this... Its a wonder anything gets done!

Ukraine’s Greens Throw Eggs in Parliament Protesting Against Nuclear Waste Facility Plans
Created: 23.02.2006 13:31 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 13:31 MSK, 6 hours 54 minutes ago

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Three members of Ukraine’s Party of Greens have thrown eggs at indicator panel in the hall of the parliament, the Supreme Rada.

They were sitting at the guest seats. They threw eggs after the speaker Vladimir Litvin had opened the morning session on Thursday.

The ’greens’ were holding a poster saying ’It is enough of democracy — nuclear waste are in Ukraine already.’

Litvin ordered the parliament guard to detain the disturbers. He said later the Rada would not allow building “burial grounds of nuclear waste in Ukraine.” He added this would not happen “until this Supreme Rada exists.” “It is not here where one should come and throw eggs,” Litvin was quoted by Ukrainian media as saying.

In December, Ukraine’s president Viktor Yushchenko said he was ready to make a decision on burying nuclear waste from other countries at the territory of Chernobyl power plant if experts and the society approve it.

Former prime minister, Yulia Timoshenko, said on February 20 there was a contract signed by the local Energoatom nuclear company and U.S. firm Holtec International connected with building depository of nuclear waste at the territory of Chernobyl power plant.

...only in Ukraine!

If only all the worlds Governments solved problems like Ukraines Government...

Pro-presidential lawmaker Mykola Martynenko, right in brown jacket, and an unidentified Communist lawmaker, left, fight in the parliament in Ukraine's capital Kiev Thursday, Feb.9, 2006. Communist Party lawmakers exchanged blows with members of President Viktor Yushchenko's faction when they attempted to put up banners ahead of Yushchenko's address to lawmakers, criticizing the president for unfulfilled campaign promises. The banner obscured and torn at right behind reads 'Where are the steps toward people', referring to Yushchenko's presidential program slugged 'Ten steps toward people'. Martynenko, the head of Yushchenko's parliamentary faction, suffered a blow to the nose and had to receive medical help. (AP Photo/Vasiliy Artyushenko)

...only in Ukraine!

Milk does a body Good!

Farmers from western Ukraine carry a poster depicting the collapse of Ukraine's dairy industry and offer milk fresh from the cow to passers-by during a protest outside Russian embassy in Kiev, February 8, 2006. The producers protested against Russia's ban on the import of Ukrainian meat and dairy products on grounds that they fail to meet safety standards. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

yummers... Only in Ukraine!

So thats why your parents always told you not to eat the Mushrooms at the Discoteka!

Trays of chocolates. Ukraine police have stumbled upon a delectable type of drug during a nightclub raid -- chocolates laced with a hefty dose of hallucinogenic mushrooms(AFP/File/Richard A. Brooks)

KIEV (AFP) - Ukraine police have stumbled upon a delectable type of drug during a nightclub raid -- chocolates laced with a hefty dose of hallucinogenic mushrooms, an official said.

Officers made the discovery overnight when they detained several drug dealers at a Kiev nightclub, Vitaly Yarema, a top official with the Kiev police was quoted as saying Friday by the Interfax news agency.

During the arrests, police seized several kilograms of chocolates that turned out to be 25 percent hallucinogenic mushrooms, he said.

Police think the chocolates were manufactured in Switzerland and transported to Ukraine through Poland.

...Only in Ukraine!

Stavay Sunchy!

21.12.2005 A nine-year old in Ivano-Frankivsk has set a Ukrainian record for squatting.

Kostiantyn Tkachenko's teachers and classmates cheered him on as he squatted 2,485 times in one hour. He became the youngest Ukrainian to attempt the record. Kostiantyn trained for the feat for two months. But his first squatting experience came when he was seven years old, when his father made him squat 200 times as a punishment.

Oink Oink!!

Donestk oblast: 700 kilo hog
Dmytro Pyvovarov will not disclose his secret for raising Maniunia, the four year old hog in the town of Dokuchayevsk that has broken the national record for largest swine.
Locals call the 700 kilo – more than fifteen hundred pound pig – a hippopotamus. Pyvovarov's yard is too small for Maniunia, so he lets the hog out onto the streets to the delight of the local children. Pyvovarov said he comes from a family of kulaks – a class of rich farmers that was targeted for destruction by Stalin's Communists – and possesses the secrets to successful pig farming. His family comes from Tomsk, where the winters are long and summers short, and they developed a diet that helped fatten their pigs as quickly as possible. Pyvovarov claims to not use any chemicals or steroids. He said that among the problems Maniunia faces is the absence of a large enough sow with which he could mate.

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Oh no! Cat in the Chimney!

A cat looks through an iced window in the mining colony Evdokievka near the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk February 6, 2006. The temperature in in the Donetsk region reached -18 degrees Celsius (-0.4 Fahrenheit). REUTERS/Alexander Khudotioply


Chimneysweepers back in demand in Ukraine’s Lvov

05.02.2006, 23.11

LVOV, February 5 (Itar-Tass) -- Chimneysweepers are in demand again in Ukraine’s Lvov. Severe winter and authorities’ demand to reduce gas consumption have forced Lvov residents, who have stoves and chimneys in their homes, to start using firewood.

The number of chimneysweepers is insufficient, Dmitry Pursky, who has been sweeping chimneys for 20 years, told Itar-Tass on Sunday. There were many teams of chimneysweepers in the city in the early 20th century, and now there are only 40 workers left. Young men do not choose this occupation because of very low salaries. Remaining chimneysweepers work overtime.

Soot is not the only thing chimneysweepers are dealing with. Birds and cats often fall into chimney shafts when they try to get warm. Tenants call for chimneysweepers to help the animals.

...Only in Ukraine!

A cossack is going on foot through the country (Ukraine)

Alexander Mazurenko from Doneck started his journey through the country on May 11, 2005. In 1990, he lost his leg, though it didn’t stop him to go round Ukraine. On the way, A.Mazurenko will celebrate his 55-years- anniversary and he is planning to return home at the end of February.

A traveler has passed a 4,6 thousand km

Last Saturday the traveler came to Feodosia from Sudak. Here he met with a journalist of the newspaper “Kafa” and shared his opinion about the country.

“When you go on foot, you see more than if you traveled by car,” marked A.Mazurenko. “The thing that really struck me was people and their kindness. Ukraine is a country of contrasts. There are places, which are worse seeing. Other are badly damaged, especially the Cultural houses. Peasants are without cinema, entertainment activities; they work on the fields, putting the horse to the cart. I’ve seen such a picture: posh “Mercedeses” were rushing near, while peasants ploughed earth.”

Before coming to Feodosia, Alexander has come more than a 4,6 thousand km, and used more than 55 films.

He also marked that almost all roads of Ukraine are in bad condition.

“Don’t trifle your life, go ahead”

Alexander Mazurenko lost his leg in 1990, having jumped from the train. But he didn’t want other people consider him a waning man. Once he read about person who came from one region to another on foot.

“I thought why not to accomplish a marathon through the country”, he remembers. “In 2000 I came from Lugansk to Uzhgorod (1,6 thousand km). And last year I decided to set a record not only in our country. My wife was against this idea. She was afraid I would get in the accident, but I went, anyway.”

His wife gave him 100 grivnas ($19). Mine, railway services and neighbours also gave him money. Then Alexander made a cartful, where he put personal things, thermos, camera, pictures of family. They presented Alexander a tent in the town Sumy, the mayor of Volun presented him a mobile phone and other things. He sends all small presents and pictures of children home by parcels, planning to create his own museum.

“I have got a big house, in which I could convert a room into a museum,” he said. “I want other people to believe in them. I did so. I’m an Ukrainian man and that’s why not a coward. Just don’t trifle your life, go ahead.”

Only in which country would a man walk for thousands of kilometers on one foot because he is "an Ukrainian man and that's why not a coward?" ...only in Ukraine!!