Оral Sex Champion of Europe!

Leave it to a Ukrainian!

Украинка стала чемпионкой Европы по оральному сексу

Жительница Украины признана европейской королевой орального секса. По данным "Экспресс газеты", конкурс, принесший Ольге Николаевой из Черновцов этот титул, прошел в столице Венгрии Будапеште. Для выбора победительницы двадцать порнорежиссеров под председательством мировой порнозвезды Рокко Сифреди просмотрели несколько сотен представленных на конкурс киноэпизодов фелляции, отмечает "Корреспондент". Как сообщают СМИ, игра Николаевой произвела на жюри самое сильное впечатление. Сама Ольга, получая 5 тыс. долларов призовых, призналась, что в ее роду у всех женщин большой рот и удивительные губы, но зарабатывать ими догадалась только она

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Fashion show in ukraine...

Fashion show....

Honestly, not what you think.... HONESTLY!

We don't want Oranges!

Ukrainian Children’s Homes Refuse to Accept Oranges
Created: 22.12.2004 00:28 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 17:23 MSK


Directors at four children’s homes in the Ukrainian city of Odessa refused to accept oranges from benefactors as New Year gifts for the children. Orange has become the symbol of the Ukrainian opposition led by presidential contender Viktor Yushchenko.

The Odessa union of businessmen purchased 200 kilograms of oranges for the children’s homes but the household managers refused to take them referring to instructions from their bosses, ITAR-TASS news agency reported.

A director at a home for deaf and dumb children was quoted by the agency as expressing surprise at the businessmen for choosing oranges and not sweets, which they had presented to the children in previous years.

Oh those Ukrainians are funny when Drunk!

8 Drunk Ukrainians Detained for Bomb Hoax in Moscow Airport
Created: 27.07.2006 13:40 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 13:40 MSK


Eight Ukrainian tourists have been taken off a flight from Moscow to Vladivostok after one of them told the police he had a bomb in his luggage. Russian authorities threatened to charge the Ukrainians with terrorism.

The incident happened on board a plane which was to fly from Moscow to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy. They never reached their destination, one of the Ukrainian tourists told Interfax. The aircraft returned to the airport three hours after the take-off for technical reasons, the passengers had been told. Before the flight was to take off again, two Ukrainians were taken off the plane for being drunk.

The two people who were initially taken off the flight were traveling in a group of eight tourists. Police said one of the Ukrainians, who was also drunk, approached an officer and said he had a bomb in his luggage. The aircraft had to be searched and the flight was delayed. Some 200 people could not fly to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy.

All eight Ukrainians were detained and accused of terrorism as the flight was cancelled. Reportedly, the detained included a member of the Kiev regional council.

The detained passengers were taken to the airport’s police station and questioned there. They were not allowed to contact the Ukrainian embassy or Foreign Ministry. Later, five of them were released and three remained in custody as Russian authorities started a criminal case under the article “deliberately false report about a prepared terrorist attack,” a crime that can be punished by a prison term up to three years.

Oh that Baba!

Disinsectant Explosion Destroys Apartment, Cockroaches Survive
Created: 23.10.2006 14:24 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 14:25 MSK
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A grandmother’s fight against insects in her home has had her rushed to hospital after the anti-cockroaches liquid she was spraying around too generously exploded.

The woman, a 66 years’ old resident of Lvov, Ukraine, had been waging war against roaches for years, neighbors said.

She purchased a new anti-insects spray and before going to bed sprayed it all around the apartment, the Kazanskiye Vedomosti newspaper reports.

She most likely overdid it, because the concentration of dichlorvos got so heavy that it caught fire on the candle the woman had burning in the room.

The powerful explosion broke the doors and windows as well as some of the walls in the apartment. Many of the woman’s possessions burned in the fire. She had to be rushed to hospital with 40 percent of skin burned.

The neighbors however said the roaches survived. The disinsectant exploded before the insects inhaked enough of it.

Ukraine to the Rescue!

Frame from NTV-Channel
U.S. Sailors Trapped by Protesters Freed by Ukrainian Troops
Created: 05.06.2006 13:50 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 13:50 MSK
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Ukrainian troops freed American sailors trapped by anti-NATO demonstrators in Crimea Sunday, Scotsman.com news website reported.

Protesters had surrounded a sanatorium where the 120 crew from a visiting navy ship were staying close to the Black Sea port of Feodosiya. The sailors arrived on the U.S. navy cargo ship Advantage on 27 May to bring equipment for a military exercise, Sea Breeze, scheduled for this summer.

But protesters say they should not have been allowed into the country because the parliament, which has been unable to form a government since the 26 March elections, has not authorised the deployment.

Opposition politicians have threatened to impeach the president, Victor Yushchenko, for allowing the U.S. servicemen into the country.

It has been a rough week for the sailors. The night they disembarked, they were forced to evacuate a navy barracks after a bomb threat was phoned in. No bomb was found, but last Friday their buses were stoned by crowds of anti-NATO protesters. Then on Saturday fresh protests blocked a road, forced their buses to turn back from new accommodation, taking them instead to the sanatorium in the town of Alushta.

The Pentagon and Ukraine’s navy insist the deployment is innocuous and will continue.

The American arrival comes with nerves frayed after weeks of bickering in parliament with the country split over whether to align itself with the West or Russia.

Wipe your ass with who!?

Famous Faces to Adorn Russian, Ukrainian Toilet Paper
Created: 24.01.2006 14:21 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 14:21 MSK
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A new brand of toilet paper called “Political” will soon appear in Russian and Ukrainian shops featuring the pictures of famous world leaders, the Adme.ru web-site reports.

The paper contains portraits of several heads of state, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. President George W. Bush, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, and British Prime Minister Tony Blair .

In addition, consumers will be able to “enjoy” pictures of disgraced Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice while making use of the lavatory.

The toilet paper on Russian and Ukrainian markets will differ in order to include more local politicians. The creators hope that before the parliamentary elections in Ukraine, scheduled for March 26, the product will become very popular.

The toilet paper is likely to be cheap — about $0.30 per roll.

Ukraine on the International Level!

// 14.12.2006 // 16:55 //
Ukrainian Porno on International Level
MIGnews.com.ua
Porno-studio, which had been working on-line through Internet, is found in Donetsk.

Information about some unusual studio in Budyonnovskiy district of Donetsk was received this autumn by militia officials. Court came to conclusion that it was enough to give order on searching this organization.
When militia officers arrived, there were about ten girls-models living there all the time and three interpreters – clients of studio, U.S. and EU users.

9 portables, 3 base units of stationary computers and several web cameras were seized during the search. People communicated with one another on-line with the help of this equipment. “Also sexual goods and accounting papers were seized”, press-service of the Interior Affairs Department reports.

Several examinations will be held the nearest time. The first one is computer-technical examination. Experts have to clear up information on computer hard disks. The second one is fine art examination. Experts, arts critic and psychologist should make a decision about presence or absence of obscene materials in this information. After results of examination lawyers will estimate activity of Donetsk businessmen.

38 criminal cases were initiated according to 301 Article of the Criminal code of Ukraine for creation and distribution of obscene materials in the oblast this year. Over 1,000 video cassettes and over 1,500 DVD CD disks were seized in shops.

Cossacks running Wild in Crimea!?

// 08.12.2006 // 12:44 //
Illegal Cossacks Storming Crimea
MIGnews.com.ua
Prosecutor office of the Crimea found some illegal Cossack unions who took part in raider attacks and provoked conflicts on the peninsula. It was found during check of legality of registration and activity on the territory of Cossack organizations autonomy.

According to the data of press-service at the Crimean prosecutor office, members of two unions pretended they were Cossacks, but their activity was illegal. “Among those illegal Cossacks were people who took part in raider seizer of property and enterprises on the territory of Crimea, provoked some social conflicts”, prosecutor office informed.

Currently people, who used Cossack’s paraphernalia, communicate with militia of the Crimea. Appropriate order was sent by prosecutor office to chief at the Crimean chief committee of the Interior Ministry Vladimir Khomenko. According to press-service’s information, number of registered Cossack unions in the autonomy raised up to 49 since the last check of prosecutor office – the second for this year.

More than half of them are independent Cossack units which do not determine orientation of their activity. The number of Cossack unions has increased who take part in the social order protection, in particular 7 of them promote work of law enforcement.

So the guy wanted to go for a walk!

// 12.12.2006 // 12:27 //
Major of Internal Service Sold Himself for $100
MIGnews.com.ua
Major of internal service is accused of getting bribe from prisoner to go for a walk in Sumy oblast.

Sumy prosecutor office on supervision over observing laws during fulfillment of court decisions concerning criminal cases finished investigation of suit brought against chief of shop in Konotop correction centre number 130 (Zhovtnevyi settlement Konotopskiy district) of major of internal service according to the second Clause 368 article of the Criminal code of Ukraine.

As prosecutor of prosecutor department in Sumy oblast Yevgeniy Gorobets informed, major received bribe in the amount of US $100 from prisoner’s wife for assistance in giving him short-term departure outside place of imprisonment.

Court brought a charge against chief of shop in the correction centre according to article mentioned above which secured punishment as imprisonment from 5 to 10 years with expropriation. Suit with bill of particulars is sent to the court for examination.

Wild Animals in Ukraine!

// 15.12.2006 // 12:35 //
Wild Animals to be Taken Away in Kyiv!
MIGnews.com.ua
Kyiv ecologist-cultural centre appealed to Kyiv authority to ban use of wild animals for making photos at their expense on the territory of city. It is said in the address to Kyiv mayor Leonid Chernovetskiy.

“Photographers who use animals just try to make money. So they are absolutely indifferent to animals”, is said in the address.
Centre supposes in accordance with bad maintenance conditions animals suffer and people, who make pictures with them, can be infected. Centre declared that photographers break rules of animals’ maintenance. They are living in the unsuitable conditions. It influences on their behavior negatively and can become the reason of their aggression.

“Owls do not sleep in the afternoon though they should sleep, monkey become frozen as it is cold there, reptiles have extracted teeth and tied mouth”, is said in the statement. Centre appealed also to the social protection department of Kyiv and Shevchenkovskiy district militia department with a request to check facts of inhumane animals’ maintenance by photographers. In the response administration declared that they made investigations along central streets in Kyiv where people make photos with animals and they did not find violations of legislation on animals’ protection.
“Wild animals are being used by photographers. They have satisfactory state. Experts did not find any bodily injuries”, is said in the message of social protection department.

Kyiv council commission on ecology policy supposes that Kyiv council cannot ban making photos with animals when photographers have license to do it and veterinary certificate of animals’ health.

Commission’s chairman Anatoliy Kovalenko supposes that Kyiv city state administration should control this problem carefully.

As a reminder, Kyiv council sent municipal enterprise Priyut dlya zhivotnykh (Asylum for animals) in rent 0,8 ha on Syretskaya street, 31-a for constructing centre of veterinary examination and captured animals.

By podrobnosti

Lets play a new game! Hide the Monument!

// 20.12.2006 // 16:28 //
Boom! Monument to URA Soldiers Stolen in Kharkov
MIGnews.com.ua
Unknowns stole monument to URA (Ukrainian rebellious army) heroes in Kharkov today at night. Monument is found in the evening.

According to evidence of eye-witnesses and workers, who restore monument, its basic part (stone) and granite stele with inscription “For Ukrainian rebellious army” were found in the pit near monument.

Anonymous e-mail letter was sent to several mass-media sources on December, 20. It was said pit was dig out near base with the help of excavator. Monument was thrown there with the help of scraps. Then pit was covered with ground. Authors of letter stated that this move was timed to KGB Serviceman Day.

Workers have dig pit out with the help of evacuator and bulldozer, seized parts of monument, put territory in order and set monument at its place now.

As a reminder, monument to URA soldiers had been set in Molodyozhnyi park in Kharkov in 1992.

By Ukrayinski Novyny

Imaginary letter to abusive father contest?

15.12.2006 16:59
Orphan wins contest for imaginary letter to abusive father
Organizers of the “Little life’s big heart” – an artistic competition for children from orphanages and boarding-schools all over Ukraine announced its results on Friday in Kyiv.
Nine-year-old Oleksandr Andriychuk won first prize with an imaginary letter to his abusive father now in jail. Over the past three months, competition organizers received over 13,000 essays and drawings from children without parents. After this year’s success, the competition is sure to be repeated. Next year, organizers plan to add singing and dancing to the competition. The goal of the event is to help prevent children from feeling lonely during the holiday season.

UPDATE: You can only strike Outside of the mine! Not inside!

15.12.2006 17:09
Miners had no right to strike inside shaft – Aryef’yev
According to vice head of Luhansk oblast Yuri Aryef’yev the fourteen miners who emerged
from their weeklong strike inside a mine shaft Thursday did not have the right to be on strike inside the shaft. Aryef’yev said miners are only allowed to strike outside the mine. Despite the fact that the Vice Deputy Coal Minister was able to convince the miners to stop their strike, the situation remains tense. The miners still haven’t received the almost 2 million hryvnia owed to them in backwages, and the former director of the mine is now under investigation.

Huge Ukrainian Alphabet Book!

Huge alphabet book presented in Kyiv
And the Children’s Literature Bazaar in Kyiv marked Tuesday by presenting to readers an alphabet book measuring three meters by four meters and weighing two hundred-fifty kilograms.
Publishers hope the large book will motivate young Ukrainians to learn to read. Representatives from the Ukrainian Book of Records were at the event to record the achievement. The “Abetka” will be kept at the National Museum of Books and Printing located on Pecherska Lavra territory.

Tiger tears off photographer's ear at Ukraine zoo

Kiev- A Bengal Tiger living in a Ukrainian zoo tore the ear off of an intoxicated photographer falling into the animal's enclosure by accident, Sehodnia newspaper reported Monday. The incident took the city zoo of the Black Sea port Mykolaev after the victim, identified in the report only by his first name Oleg, climbed to the top of the tiger enclosure's six-metre wall in an attempt to take close up snap shots.

The man, described by eyewitnesses as "highly intoxicated", lost his balance and fell into the enclosure, which contained three tigers at the time.

Two of the big cats ignored the intruder, but a fifteen-year old tigress named Alfa reacted aggressively and bit Oleg in the head.

The photographer fought back and called on onlookers for assistance. Members of the general public threw bottles at the tiger, without effect.

Zoo staff were on the scene and gave the tiger a tranquilizer injection shortly after the attack. The tiger released the photographer and an emergency medical team transported Oleg and his severed ear to a city hospital.

Police arriving before the tranquilizers took effect offered to shoot dead the tiger Alfa, a suggestion rejected by zoo personnel.

Surgeons reattached the photographer's ear and closed "numerous deep wounds" in a two hour operation. Oleg reportedly faced "several months in hospital...but is expected to recover fully," according to the article.

Vetrinarians inspecting the tiger found the big cat had strained muscles in a rear limb "and suffered significant stress." The animal otherwise was healthy and Oleg was in no danger of rabies, said Valentina Yakunina, director of the Mykolaev zoo large carnivores' division.

Injuries to Ukrainian zoo visitors from dangerous animals are infrequent, but they do occur, almost always because an intoxicated person had climbed into the animals' enclosure, or tried to feed a zoo animal by hand.


"Members of the general public threw bottles at the tiger..." Only in Ukraine...

Stem-cell ethics...

Healthy new-born babies may have been killed in Ukraine to feed a flourishing international trade in stem cells, evidence obtained by the BBC suggests.
Disturbing video footage of post-mortem examinations on dismembered tiny bodies raises serious questions about what happened to them.
Ukraine has become the self-styled stem cell capital of the world.
There is a trade in stem cells from aborted foetuses, amid unproven claims they can help fight many diseases.
But now there are claims that stem cells are also being harvested from live babies.
The BBC has spoken to mothers from the city of Kharkiv who say they gave birth to healthy babies, only to have them taken by maternity staff.
In 2003 the authorities agreed to exhume around 30 bodies of foetuses and full-term babies from a cemetery used by maternity hospital number six.
One campaigner was allowed into the autopsy to gather video evidence. She has given that footage to the BBC and Council of Europe.
In its report, the Council describes a general culture of trafficking of children snatched at birth, and a wall of silence from hospital staff upwards over their fate.
The pictures show organs, including brains, have been stripped - and some bodies dismembered.
A senior British forensic pathologist says he is very concerned to see bodies in pieces - as that is not standard post-mortem practice.
It could possibly be a result of harvesting stem cells from bone marrow.
Hospital number six denies the allegations.

Unfortunately...only in ukraine...

They emerged from the world below...Shahxteri!

Luhansk: Miners see sun after a week below ground

Twelve of fourteen miners who have been striking two hundred meters below ground for a week in Luhansk oblast left the mine on Thursday. They did so after the deputy Coal industry minister paid them a visit.
The miners refused to leave the shaft until some ten months of back wages worth nearly two million hryvnia is paid. Deputy minister Volodymyr Fichov traveled to Luhansk to mitigate the situation. A solution was apparently found during a meeting held in the Luhansk oblast administration. Two miners remained in the shaft to pump water out of the mine. Operations at the privately-owned mine in Krasnopolyevsk have been suspended.

One way of not paying your Taxes...

// 07.12.2006 // 14:56 //
Deputy Chief of Tax Militia is Shot!
MIGnews.com.ua
Latest events, which have happened in Kharkov, shocked both citizens and statesmen. Criminals hunt at statesmen.

As MIGnews.com.ua informed, unknowns shot down building of city executive committee and city council in the centre of Kharkov yesterday. Due to the efficiency of law enforcement, as a result of incident three people are detained. Militia seized shooting pistol with rubber bullets.

In a day new emergency happened in Kharkov again: unknown shot at deputy chief of oblast tax militia.

As Novyi region informs, emergency happened in one of the restaurants in Kharkov at night. As a result first deputy chief of the oblast militia department in the State tax administration in Kharkov oblast Oleg Malets is wounded because of rubber bullet. His colleague, chief at one of the tax departments also is wounded. Unknown shot at his head.

Both officials are hospitalized. Doctors state their wounds do not threat victims’ life. Law enforcement try to clear up the reason of emergency.

hm... banning Alcohol on New Years?

// 27.11.2006 // 17:49 //
Kievers to Celebrate New Year with Dry Law
MIGnews.com.ua
Kyiv authority decided to adorn Maidan Nezalezhnosti and other squares and streets in the city by the New Year until December, 18.

As Ukrayinski Novyny informs with a reference to the order of Kyiv city administration, Kyivgoroformlenie company will be occupied with decoration of streets. Besides, works at setting and erection of New Year tree will be finished on Maidan Nezalezhnosti until December, 18. Holiday ignition of New Year tree will occur at 4:00 p.m. on December, 23.
Chief department of trade and life should organize trade of Ukrainian dishes and hot beverages in the centre of Kyiv during New Year and Christmas holidays beginning from December, 23 2006 till January, 19 2007. Kyiv city administration banned trade of strong alcoholic drinks and goods in the glass bottles in the places of these events.

Besides, Kyiv city administration decided to give sponsors of holiday priority right to station trade tents and interim advertisement on Maidan Nezalezhnosti and on Kreshchatik during the holidays.

At the same time Kyiv city administration decided to celebrate New Year on Maidan Nezalezhnosti at night of December, 31 – January, 1. Christmas will be celebrated on Maidan on January, 7 and Epiphany will be celebrated in Hidropark on January, 19.

Allo, A Chu tu chyesh mene?!

09.10.2006 19:24
Dnipropetrovsk: Thieves steal telephone cable for scrap metal
Telephone cable thieves have left more than 5,000 residents of Dnipropetrovsk without telephone service.
Police say that 88 lengths of copper cable have been stolen in different locations throughout the city in the past few days. In the last nine months. More than 400 complaints on the theft of cables have been registered in Dnipropetrovsk. Police say the thieves are stealing the cable for the copper – they turn it in for 20 hryvnia per kilogram at scrap metal yards. Full telephone service is expected to be restored in one week’s time.

i guess Its NOT his daughter!

Italian caught trying to smuggle girl
Border service guards arrested a citizen of Italy at Boryspil airport as he tried to smuggle a 13 year old girl out of the country.
The Italian was due to fly to Prague and told border guards that the girl is his daughter. They became suspicious when the girl told them in Ukrainian that she had lost her travel documents. Upon being arrested, the Italian confessed that he arrived in Ukraine in September to take the girl out of the country and pass her on to a woman. Border guards have determined the girl’s identity. The Kirovohrad native said that her family told her to “listen to the man and everything will be well.” The border guard service said that it has thwarted nearly 2,000 similar attempts to smuggle people out of the country since the beginning of the year.

I guess Someone forget to clean the attic!

Lviv: WW2 weapons cache found in roof
Construction workers in Lviv uncovered a clandestine weapons cache from the Second World War while working on the roof of a vacant building in the center of the city.
Emergency services were alerted and the residents of adjacent buildings were immediately evacuated. Emergency workers found 18 German grenades and more than 500 German and French-made bullets. Radio equipment was also found. The hardware was described as being in excellent condition. But local historians were most excited by the maps and documents found in the store. Based on the documents, researchers believe the roof-top bunker was last used in 1944.

Welcome to Halychyna Paramedic Rally 2006!!

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25.10.2006 09:32

Halychyna Paramedic Rally 2006 under way

An emergency services training session called “Halychyna Paramedic Rally 2006” is underway in the city of Lviv.
Paramedic teams from Lviv, Kyiv, Rivne, Zhytomyr and the Polish city of Lublin are taking part in the event. Each team’s skills and speed will be challenged in four different scenarios, in which real emergency situations will be simulated. At each stage, the team will have to locate the person needing aid, provide a diagnosis, and offer the appropriate treatment. Participants say that the experience will help them in their every day work. It is the first time such a rally is being held in Ukraine.

I hope He didn't buy the Product...

Odesa: Man crushed by billboard

A man died and another was injured in Odesa on Monday when a billboard collapsed onto the sidewalk.

Strong winds are thought to have caused the accident that occurred near the port city’s central train station. The 28 year old victim died on the spot. The other victim sustained head injuries. His condition was described as serious but stable. Emergency service workers said the outdoor advertisements were improperly installed.

How Ukrainians Solve Problems: Set up Tents!

06.11.2006 15:52

Lviv: Football fans protest higher rent for “Karpaty” club

Fans of the Lviv Karpaty football club pitched tents in front of city hall and announced an ongoing protest on Monday.
They are demanding that Lviv city hall provide the club with a long-term lease for the stadium where the Karpaty currently play. City hall wants to collect one hundred and twenty five thousand hryvnia in rent every month from the club. The club presumably cannot afford the rent which stands at the equivalent of twenty five thousand dollars every month. The demonstrators say that the club may be forced to play at a stadium in Ivano-Frankivsk. Nine tents were pitched in front of Lviv city hall.

Maybe he needed to make a call...

Lviv oblast: Pole caught smuggling 9,000 mobile phones

The State security service SBU seized a shipment of nine thousand contraband mobile telephones in Lviv oblast.

A Polish man attempted to smuggle the cell phones into the country by hiding them in his mini-bus. The value of the contraband phones was estimated to be six million hryvnia – that’s more than a million US dollars. It’s the biggest catch of bootleg phones so far this year. The Pole was caught deep inside the country, so investigators want to determine whether or not he had help crossing the border with such a large cache.

3 Tons of Poppy destroyed?! Some Baba is going to be angry that someone was messing with her garden~

Lutsk: Three tons of opium poppy straw destroyed

Meanwhile in Lutsk, police uncovered some three tons of poppy straw at a farm in that city.

According to estimates, the straw could have been used to make narcotics with a street value between five and six million hryvnia. That’s more than a million dollars. The opium poppy straw was found buried near a cow barn. There is one enterprise in Volyn oblast with a license to grow poppies. Instead of burning the straw, workers took the processed plants to a nearby farm and hid it. A criminal investigation has been launched. The company may lose its license to grow poppies.

DON'T SIPHON GAS!

20.11.2006 13:51 ( оновлено о 16:07)

Odesa: Five dead as they attempt to siphon oil

Five people were poisoned as they attempted to siphon oil from a pipeline near Odesa.
The men apparently sought to cut into the pipeline from an unused sewage system. They were found dead with welding equipment and one hundred meters of plastic hose. Emergency service workers suspect they were poisoned by fumes. Their identities have yet to be established.

What a bad Training Camp!

28.11.2006 16:18 ( оновлено о 21:15)

Soldier beaten to death at training camp

Two tragedies to report from the country’s military: one soldier was killed and another was shot by their superiors in two seperate incidents that occured in the past week.

Recruit Oleksandr Rybka was beaten to death at the Desna training camp in Chernihiv oblast. Two sergeants are suspected of the murder. The eighteen year old was unable to get out of bed on Monday morning and died in the camp’s hospital a few hours later. Doctors said his death was caused by his liver bursting. The two sergeants are suspected of beating him before he went to bed. Both men are in custody.

Meanwhile, in Zakarpattya oblast a soldier was injured when a commanding officer of the border guard service shot him in the chest with a pistol. The incident occurred in Chop more than a week ago, and journalists only learned about it form anonymous source. The nineteen year old survived the shooting. The offending officer faces up to three years imprisonment.

A Hutzul version of Robin Hood?? This I have to see!

16th annual Kolomeyka Hutzul festival

Hutzul mountain dwellers gathered in Ivano-Frankivsk oblast for the 16th annual Kolomeyka festival.

Several thousand Hutzuls from around the world descended upon the village of Pechynizhyn in the Carpathian Mountains. The village is considered to be the home of Oleksa Dovbush – the Hutzul version of Robin Hood, whose band of merry men were known as the oprichky. The festival program included a traditional Hutzul wedding and artisans from the mountains came to share and sell their wares.

WHO SAWS A ROCKET? HONESTLY!

Dnipropetrovsk: Man critical after rocket explosion

A man is in the re-animation ward a hospital in Dnipropetrovsk after being injured by a rocket explosion.

The explosion occurred at the Aero-space center of the national Space agency in that city. The man was sawing the rocket when the blast happened. The illegal rocket cache was located on premises that also house the Dnipropetrovsk legal academy. Students complained about heath problems after the explosion. Authorities are investigating what chemical substances may have been released by the blast.

http://5tv.com.ua/eng/newsline/230/20/33964/

International Online Fraud... some how a Ukrainian is always involved...

Ukrainian Busted in CarderPlanet Online Fraud Ring
Created: 21.07.2005 13:18 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 13:18 MSK
MosNews


Ukrainian police have arrested a man suspected of launching an international online fraud ring. U.S. law enforcers said earlier the CarderPlanet website served as a marketplace for millions of stolen bank accounts. Many of the accounts were stolen by hackers who targeted dozens of banks, e-commerce sites and government agencies.

Dmitry Golubov, arrested in Ukraine earlier this month, is believed to be one of the founders of the CarderPlanet.com site, the Delovaya Nedelya newspaper reports.

The Wall Street Journal wrote last week that CarderPlanet boasted roughly 7,000 members and served as a marketplace for millions of stolen accounts, according to Larry Johnson, special agent in charge of the U.S. Secret Service’s criminal investigative division.

Many of the stolen accounts came from hackers who targeted dozens of organizations such as banks, e-commerce sites and government agencies in the U.S., U.K. and Australia. Stolen account information can sell online for as little as a few dollars and as much as several hundred dollars.

CaderPlanet was closed last year but the U.S. authorities continued chasing its founders worldwide, Delovaya Nedelya wrote.

U.S. Postal Inspector Paul Crenn reported that Dmitry Golubov who took an active part in CarderPlanet operations under the nickname of Script was arrested on July 7.

Delovaya Nedelya failed to get in touch with Golubov’s defense lawyers. Ukrainian authorities refused to comment while the U.S. officials did not rule out that more arrests would follow in the near future in Ukraine.

CarderPlanet was set up in 2001. A man by the name of Douglas Cade Havard, 22, has pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering and is now in a Leeds prison cell in Great Britain.

At 19, Havard was honing counterfeiting skills he learned in online chat rooms, making fake IDs in Texas for fellow underage college students who wanted to drink alcohol, Wall Street Journal reported. By 21, Havard had parlayed those skills to a lucrative position at CarderPlanet.com. Having reached a senior rank in the largely Russian and Eastern European organization, he was driving a Mercedes and spending hundreds of dollars on champagne at clubs.

Freedom of the Press?

Ukrainian Editor Says Bentley Destroyed Over Photos of Yushchenko’s Son
Created: 04.10.2005 16:14 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 16:14 MSK
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko ordered a high-level investigation on Oct. 2 into the attack on a car owned by the editor of a celebrity tabloid that was allegedly planning a photo expose on the president’s teenage son, Associated Press reported.

Yushchenko asked Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko to personally take control of the investigation, saying it must be conducted as thoroughly and quickly as possible “to make impossible any kind of speculation around it.”

Walid Harfouch, managing editor of the magazine Paparazzi, said that his Bentley was damaged by a homemade fire bomb early on Sept. 30, according to the media rights group Reporters Without Borders. The group cited Harfouch, a Lebanese citizen, as saying he believed the attack was linked to the planned publication of Turkey vacation photographs of Yushchenko’s son, Andriy, and his girlfriend.

No one could be reached for comment at the Kiev police department or the tabloid this weekend.

The magazine’s forthcoming issue had been discussed in a story on tabloid journalism in Kiev’s English language weekly newspaper last month. Reporters without Borders said that afterward Paparazzi’s staff immediately began coming under pressure to scrap the article.

“For the president, the principle of free speech in immutable,” said the president’s spokeswoman Irina Gerashchenko. “He and his family would never allow anyone to try to pressure journalists about any kind of material.” She said they had only learned about the planned article after the attack on the editor’s car.

She urged the magazine’s editor to make a formal complaint to police about the alleged pressure, adding that it would also help remove any suspicions that the magazine was trying “to lift its ratings at the expense of a scandal around a well-known family.”

“We very much hope that soon this next issue will appear exactly in such a scope and format as was originally envisioned,” Gerashchenko said.

Yushchenko’s teenage son sparked a scandal earlier this summer when a Ukrainian Internet site reported on his allegedly lavish lifestyle, sparking an angry outburst from Yushchenko. The president later apologized.

Is it a haunted Bathhouse!?

Bathhouse Made of Tombstones Demolished in Ukrainian Crimea Region
Created: 26.09.2006 12:13 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 12:35 MSK
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Residents in a Ukrainian city of Simferopol have been visiting a bathhouse made of cemetery tombstones for over 70 years, the Novy Region news agency reports.

The weird fact became known when the building was demolished to give way to a modern hotel. Construction workers said that the ground floor and the cellar of the building had been built entirely of tombstones taken from the city cemetery.

The bathhouse was built in the 1930s and the stone from the quarry was expensive so the builders used tombstones. Historians claim that the bathhouse is not the only building created this way and that even some residential buildings in the city have tombstones in their walls.

Historians say that Christian and Jewish tombstones were discovered as the building was raised. The oldest found tombstone is dated 1806.

Corruption dealt with at the highest level... 67 dollar Fine!

Ukrainian Interior Minister Sentenced to $67 Fine in Corruption Trial
Created: 20.11.2006 17:39 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 17:39 MSK
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A court in Kiev found Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko guilty of corruption on Monday, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reports.

Lutsenko’s lawyer, Yuriy Berhelson, has told the press that the Pecherskyy district court ordered the minister to pay a fine of 340 Hryvnas (about $67). The lawyer said the decision was “political” and that the court found that Lutsenko’s motives were not “selfish”.

Earlier, Deputy Prosecutor-General Renat Kuzmin accused Lutsenko of unlawfully promoting Interior Ministry officers and “presenting pistols to citizens who have no right to bear firearms”.

Lutsenko’s supporters dismiss the allegations as being part of a campaign to sack him because he is one of the few remaining ministers who back President Viktor Yushchenko.

What can I say, Ukrainians love their Eggs!

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
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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.

Deporting Naked Greenpeace Activist!?

Blonde Ukraine Greenpeace Activist Faces Deportation over Nude Posters
Created: 26.10.2006 12:12 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 16:08 MSK
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A Greenpeace activist in Ukraine faces deportation after she posed naked for a series of environmental awareness posters.

Oksana Golubova, a beautiful blonde and head of the local Greenpeace office in Ukraine’s largest seaside resort area of Crimea, was attempting to protect the peninsula’s nature from careless tourist attitude.

The girl posed as a model for a series of posters together with dead animals and birds. The message she intended to send to the world was human holidays are a threat to nature, the Express Gazeta newspaper reports.

However instead of feeling guilty, the authorities and residents of the peninsula, where tourism is the only source of income, cracked down on the activist herself. She was accused of being immoral, unpatriotic and of trying to ruin the region’s economy.

If Golubova continues her agitation, Crimea’s Prime Minister Viktor Plakida has said, he will personally see that she gets deported from the peninsula.

Oksana, who did not expect such an emotional reaction, tries to leave house as rarely as possible.

“I just wanted to make people who come to spend their holidays in the Crimea treat its nature with more consideration,” Oksana says.

“I wanted to stop the authorities from pouring sewage into the sea. But unfortunately people care more about drawing money from tourists than about leaving a clean sea to their children.”

Ukrainian Getting New Trams!? Only 40 years old!

Zurich to donate trams to Ukrainian town
Thu Dec 7, 10:51 AM ET
ZURICH (Reuters) - After 40 years rattling through the streets of Zurich and past a church where writer James Joyce is buried, a fleet of ageing Swiss trams is to find a new lease of life in a provincial Ukrainian town.


Zurich's city council said it is donating 13 trams to the town of Vinnitsa, 250 km southwest of Kiev where they will enter service next year and are expected to run for at least 12 more years.

The trams are being retired from the number 5 route running across town to Fluntern, an upscale neighbourhood on a hill where Joyce, who wrote part of his literary masterpiece Ulysses in Zurich and died there in 1941, is buried.

Another free consignment of up to 15 trams will be delivered by the end of 2008. Unlike some European cities, such as Milan and Lisbon, where trams dating from the 1930s are still in service, Zurich's trams are routinely withdrawn after 40 years