WOW! a bottle of cognac goes a long way in Ukraine!!!

Imagine what you could do with 2 bottles of cognac.... become president???

Leader of the Yabluko Party Mykhailo Brodskyi accuses the eponymous bloc leader Yulia Tymoshenko of her intention to bribe Constitutional Court judges.

Brodskyi announced this at a press conference of the leaders of the Tymoshenko Bloc, of the Our Ukraine People's Union Party Vjacheslav Kyrylenko and of the Narodna Samooborona public and political movement Yurii Lutsenko.

Making use of a halt between speeches of the oppositionists Brodskyi, who was present in the room jumped up and proposed the reporters to give an account of his own, alternative point of view on the current political situation.

"Yulia Volodymyrivna promised me personally a bottle of cognac in case of she fails to bribe Constitutional Court judges and asked me for money to do this," said Brodskyi.

He also accused Tymoshenko of attempts to split the country and push it towards a civil war.

"Hold! You are but forcing events happened in Subdniestria, Kosovo for the country... leave politics, stop yourself until I stop you completely," said Brodskyi.

He also was surprised that Kyrylenko and Lutsenko are cooperating with Tymoshenko.

Brodskyi called Tymoshenko's political force a totalitarian sect.

"Come to your senses! We have our single Fatherland - and this is not the Batkivschyna party," he said addressing Lutsenko and Kyrylenko.

As Ukrainian News reported, in winter delegates of the Yabluko Party congress announced it an opposition party and decided to turn to the Tymoshenko Bloc with a request to include it into the Bloc as a separate political force the same way, as the Reforms and Order Party was included into the Bloc.

Kudos to you!

If only they protested like this in america.... leav it to a Ukrainian!

Destroying your computer has a competition?

Ukraine hosts computer destruction championship
Appetite for destruction
By John Leyden
Published Monday 29th September 2003 12:56 GMT

More than 300 sledgehammer-wielding, mouse-kicking Ukrainians took part in a competition last weekend to destroy computer equipment in the most spectacular way possible.
The First Open Computer Destruction Championship, held in the central Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhya, were organised by a local radio station and designed to raise awareness about the perils of spending too much time in front of a PC, the BBC
reports.

There were three main events: chucking a keyboard, kicking a computer mouse, and the "creative destruction" of computer monitors. Ironically, winners in each category received computer equipment as a prize (but you probably guessed that already).
Competitors told Ukrainian TV that the event helped purge them of computer angst.
Radio engineer Yevhen Hrytsenko, who threw his keyboard an impressive 40.2 metres to win that event, said he felt "liberated from computer addiction".
"Just recently I busted my monitor at home. I was so angry at it, luckily I didn't destroy the keyboard, so I could throw it here today," he said.
Eastern Europe, and the Ukraine in particular, was a breeding ground for the sport of mobile phone throwing, which has now spread internationally.
Anthropologists are yet to explain why a country with one of the lowest GDP (annual income per head) figures in Europe could spawn such a passion for abusing hi-technology equipment.
If you're tempted to abuse your PC, check out our guide: 102 ways to kill your computer. ®

Ukrainian Girl Terminates ATM!

Ukrainian teen fights the Rise of the Machines™
14-year-old terminates ATM
By Lester Haines

Published Wednesday 13th October 2004 10:27 GMT

A 14-year-old Ukrainian girl has struck a blow for humanity in the war against belligerent technology by completely destroying a Yalta cash machine - with her bare hands.
The plucky freedom fighter took on the avaricious ATM after it swallowed her cash card. In the ensuing battle, the youth - described by police as "looking like she couldn't hurt a fly" - caused £4,500 worth of damage to the Privatbank dispenser. The unnamed girl told the press: "I just got angry and couldn't control myself after the machine took my card. I train regularly at a local boxing club to keep fit - I guess I must have learned a few things."
Absolutely. If the young lady in question would like to contact El Reg, we have a few bits of obstreperous kit which would benefit from an application of the "Ukrainian Handshake" - starting with the UK's murderous cyberloos. ®

Free Energy ElectroPower Source for sale!

Ukrainians punt free energy generator on eBay
Self-destructing 'electro power source'
By Lester Haines
Published Monday 3rd July 2006 15:42 GMT

Here's one for the technically-minded among you to ponder: a Ukrainian "free energy electro power source" which has popped up on eBay.

Quite how the 100kW+ wonder machine works is anyone's guess, and the vendors are remaining pretty tight-lipped on the matter. It doesn't run on petrol or diesel, but does consume 1200m3 of air per hour. Quite remarkably, in can apparently operate simultaneously in a vacuum, which attests to its hi-tech capabilities.

There are, nonetheless, a couple of clues as to the possible power source. First up, the blurb carries this dire warning aimed at preventing purchasers from investigating the machine's innards: "With the purpose to provide technology safety, the case of electric power station will be closed, and at its unauthorized opening electric power station will be self-destructed."
Secondly, the same outfit is punting rather a lot of ex-military Geiger counters.

Long-term readers may remember that back in 2004, the Ukrainians admitted they had somewhat absent-mindedly mislaid hundreds of nuclear missiles. Based on the available evidence, we have pointed the UN's nuclear watchdog in the direction of this auction, where they can get an example of the electro power source right now for a mere £143,600.
And, if the chaps from bomb disposal are able to get the cover off the thing without taking out an entire city, the truth of the wonderous generator may soon be revealed. ®

Oh those Ukrainian Women...

By LUKAS I. ALPERT, Wire Services - New York Post

A Ukrainian woman was busted trying to smuggle drugs inside her vibrator.

"She told us she had put the drugs there because she thought no one would ever think of touching it,
let alone looking inside it," said a Ukrainian border-police spokesman.
"She was obviously unaware of how thorough our officers are in their searches," he added.