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So let's take a look back at the best and worst moments from the Opening Ceremony
A leaked recording of a telephone conversation allegedly between US assistant secretary of state Victoria Nuland and the US envoy to the Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt discussing who should be in Ukraine's next government has, according to The FT, threatened to fuel east-west tensions over the troubled nation's future.
January 24
00:05. Approximately 1500 people tried to storm a building of Zhitomir Regional State Administration. According to LB.ua correspondent from the scene, the assault lasted about an hour. 15 nationalists where the most active participants of the assault, they even had a fight with the police. The assault has already ended.
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych will make traditional televised addresses to the Ukrainian people on the occasion of the upcoming New Year and Christmas holidays.
Kyiv has decided to put its move for closer integration with the EU on hold in favour of talks to revive economic relations with Russia, one week before the country was expected to sign a landmark association agreement with the 28-country bloc in Vilnius.
Pipeline operators in Ukraine and Slovakia are on the verge of signing a deal that will allow the European Union to ship gas through Slovakia to Ukraine, reducing Kiev's dependence on Russia, the European Commission and Ukraine said yesterday.
"Trade turnover between Ukraine and Slovakia has increased by 7.5% since January and now exceeds 900 million dollars. This figure looks inspiring, but it is still well below our countries' potential," Vice Premier Olexandr Vilkul said, meeting in Kyiv on Wednesday with Slovak Ambassador to Ukraine Pavol Hamzik.
World heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko retained his WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO titles with a unanimous points win over Russia's Alexander Povetkin on Sunday (AEDT) in Moscow.
Viktor Baloha, a parliament member (independent), claims the Higher Administrative Court has deprived Pavlo Baloha and Oleksandr Dombrovskyi (both are independent) of Verkhovna Rada members' mandates.
Viktor Baloha has written this in Facebook.
On January 11, Kyiv is expected to have cloudy weather with clearings, light snow, sleet, ice slick on the roads, light ice slick in the daytime, and southwestern wind of 5-10 m/s. Temperatures will stand at -7...-9 C at night, and at 0...-2 C in the daytime, Ukrainian News has learned from the Ukrainian Weather Center.
Border guards of Chop Detachment stopped two attempts of illegal cross of the state border beyond the check point.
In the first case, in the area of BS “Guta” due to advance information about approach to the border, two citizens of Republic of Moldova were apprehended trying to get illegally to Slovakia.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister and Infrastructure Minister Borys Kolesnikov has said he believes that foreign fans who visited Ukraine during EURO 2012 remained satisfied and became a part of a big festival. He announced this live on the Echo of Moscow radio station.
70% illegal migrants get to Ukraine through the territory of Russia. For the most part, their route from Afghanistan goes through Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and from there to Russia – it is explained by the chief of Head Department on Fight against Corruption and Organized Criminality, Serhiy Tkachenko.
Ukraine head coach Oleh Blokhin is sure that his team will offer fight to England in the third match of the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship, he said this in an interview with Sport-Express.
Funtik, a psychic boar, has predicted victory for the Swedish national football team in its match against the Ukrainian national football team, which will take place in Kyiv on Monday in the group phase of the 2012 European football championships.
A sentence of Appeal Court of Transcarpathian region came into legal force as to criminal case instituted and investigated by Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) concerning the accused person in crime commitment foreseen by Part 3 Article 332 (illegal transportation of persons through the state border) of Criminal Code of Ukraine.
UEFA President Michel Platini's latest visit to the UEFA EURO 2012 host countries took him to the venues at Lviv and Warsaw and had him anticipating a "magnificent festival of football".
With UEFA EURO 2012 in Poland and Ukraine fast approaching, UEFA President Michel Platini has travelled to the two host countries on Thursday.
Deputy prime minister Borys Kolesnikov was proud at how Ukrainians had managed "the difficult task of building a new terminal in 22 months" as he visited Lviv International Airport.
Official automotive sponsor Hyundai-Kia have handed over the keys to the vehicles which will transport guests, officials and players at UEFA EURO 2012, including the 16 team buses.
Greece coach Fernando Santos has gone for experience over youth in naming a provisional 25-man squad for UEFA EURO 2012 that includes 36-year-old Nikos Liberopoulos.
Fernando Santos has taken a gamble on veteran striker Nikos Liberopoulos in his provisional 25-man Greece squad for UEFA EURO 2012.
In the area of BS “Onokivtsi” of Border Department “Uzhgorod” of Chop Detachment law enforcement agents detected and detained the group of illegal migrants next in turn.
Vladimir Klitschko knocked out Jean-Marc Mormeck of France with a stinging left-right combination in the fourth round to retain his world heavyweight titles at the Esprit Arena on Saturday.
IBF/WBA/WBО/IBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko of Ukraine said at a news conference in Dusseldorf on Monday that "he is ready for this challenge", meaning the upcoming bout vs France's Jean-Marc Mormeck on March 3.
Since early February, when severe frosts came to Ukraine, more than 150 people have died in the country, according to the Ministry of Emergency information. Most of them - homeless. Unfortunately, the realities suggest that this figure is not true. Real one is much more bigger.
Financial Times' fDi Intelligence Unit has released their annual European Cities and Regions of the Future 2012/2013 report. According to the new document, seven Ukrainian cities topped the list of most cost effective destinations for investment. The Western Ukrainian city of Ternopil ranked as the best European city for cost effectiveness.
According to chief of the Ukrainian hidrometeocenter Mykola Kulbida on February 7 - 8 February frosts will intensify in the eastern regions.
Police intends to examine the computer servers that were seized from the ex.ua file-sharing website for existence of counterfeit products during the period of February-March. The head of the press service of the Interior Affairs Ministry, Volodymyr Polyschuk.
Defense ministers of Poland and Ukraine Mykhailo Yezhel and Tomas Semonyak discussed in Brussels issues of joint training of the units and subdivisions of the Ukrainian and Polish Armed Forces to ensure security during Euro 2012.