News from Uzhgorod and Transcarpathia

20.04.08 (09:01)
Eastern Europe DDoS: UA-Reporter (Ukraine), and wm63.ru (Russia)
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12.04.08 (13:41)
Ukraine Mayor Flees Amid Persecution Investigation
(DUE TO A LARGE NUMBER OF CLICKS AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS BOSNEWSLIFE DECIDED TO REPUBLISH THIS ARTICLE. IT APPEARED FOR THE FIRST TIME ON FEBRUARY 09, 2008). UZHHOROD, UKRAINE (BosNewsLife)-- The mayor of Uzhhorod, a key-border town in Ukraine, has fled after special police forces surrounded his headquarters as part of an investigation into his alleged involvement in persecuting citizens, including Christians fighting corruption, witnesses told BosNewsLife Saturday, February 9.
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08.04.08 (07:34)
Charity recycling firefighting gear
An Oakworth man is heading to the Ukraine to help hand over a range of equipment to the country's fire service.
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21.03.08 (21:30)
Ethnic Hungarian woman assaulted in Ukraine
A young Hungarian woman was assaulted in Nagyszхlхs, Ukraine, for speaking in Hungarian, the newspaper Igazi Kбrpбti Igaz Szу has reported in Uzhgorod.
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21.03.08 (00:01)
999 crews to help colleagues in Ukraine
FIREFIGHTERS in Ukraine are to receive fire kit and equipment from West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service.
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16.03.08 (23:25)
Coping with loss
Sandy McCulloch knows the power of support groups. After three divorces and the realization that he was emotionally closed off, McCulloch found himself standing in the center of a group therapy session, shouting at the ceiling and bursting into tears in front of a room full of strangers.
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11.03.08 (23:26)
First Online Free Expression Day to be launched by Reporters Without Borders
"From now on, we will organise activities every 12 March to condemn cyber-censorship throughout the world," Reporters Without Borders said. "A response of this kind is needed to the growing tendency to crack down on bloggers and to close websites. We thank UNESCO for providing its support for this special day from the very first year.
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11.03.08 (20:43)
Tymoshenko: Ukraine will become a member of the European Union
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko assured that Ukraine would become a member of the European Union. She stated at the conference “Ukraine-EU: towards common challenges” in Brussels, according to the government’s press-office.
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11.03.08 (19:11)
Merkel against NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday NATO should not consider any expansion which would include countries that lack clear domestic support or involved in regional conflicts, according to Xinhua.
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10.03.08 (20:45)
Kevin Federline, Britney Spears' Dad in Court for Hearing
LOS ANGELES — Britney Spears' ex-husband Kevin Federline, his attorney and Spears' father were in court Monday for the first of two hearings regarding the pop star's finances and future.
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10.03.08 (18:54)
Medvedev's Russia still tricky for business
Here is a good Russian fairytale. Once upon a time a huge country ended decades of political and economic isolation. After some rocky years, a stable and pro-business government took over.
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10.03.08 (16:19)
Angelina Jolie Sexy Make Up Call for Brad Pitt
Angelina Jolie may be very pregnant but the one time vampy Hollywood sweetheart still understands that there is nothing like a little make up sex to ease the tensions between partners, a report from the National Enquirer claims. According to the published report Brad Pitt was not very happy with Jolie jetting off to Iraq and he is also not pleased with the lack of time joie is spending with him of late, the report claims.
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10.03.08 (16:08)
Tymoshenko-Yushchenko stand-off: forecasts by political experts
“I wouldn’t dramatize the present relationship between Pres Yushchenko and Premier Tymoshenko. Their stand-off over Russian gas supplies is a personal rather than institutional issue, and will not lead to her resignation, political expert Anatoly Romaniuk told ZIK March 7.
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10.03.08 (16:02)
Council of Europe leaders call for practical steps to fight gender violence
Council of Europe leaders today called on European states and citizens to continue to fight violence against women, one of the most common human rights violations, on the occasion of International Women`s Day, according to the CE Communication Unit.
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10.03.08 (15:57)
Ukrainian highlanders: Hutsuls, Boikos, and Lemkos
Distinguished by their unique dialects and folklore traditions, the Ukrainian highlanders in the eastern Carpathian Mountains are divided into several ethnographic groups: the Lemkos, in the Low Beskyd and the western part of the Middle Beskyd; the Boikos, up to the Bystrytsia Solotvynska River; and the Hutsuls in the Hutsul region further east.
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10.03.08 (11:59)
Sharkie’s Machine: Peter Pummels Maskaev to TKO in Six
Saturday night at the Plaza de Toros in Cancun Mexico, WBC Heavyweight Champion Oleg Maskaev (34-6, 26 KO’s) lost his title to the younger Sam Peter (30-1, 23 KO’s) after Peter delivered a series of power punches in the sixth round that forced Maskaev to cover up, get rocked a few times and ultimately be saved by the referee, who stepped between them and stopped the contest.
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08.03.08 (22:17)
Report: Next EMS wave to splash over Ukraine, Romania
BERLIN — Ukraine and Romania are the next hot destinations for electronics manufacturing, according to a recent report on outsourcing in Central and Eastern Europe by Technology Forecasters Inc.
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05.02.08 (00:58)
RUSSIA DECIDES TO ABANDON UKRAINIAN STRATEGIC RADARS
In the wake of its request to NATO for a Membership Action Plan (see EDM, January 18), Ukraine is offering its two anti-missile early warning and space monitoring radars for possible use by a European missile-defense system under Western auspices (Interfax-Ukraine, February 1, 2). Located respectively at Sevastopol in the Crimea and Mukachevo in Transcarpathia, the two Ukrainian radars have been operating for Russia since 1992, their use regulated by an intergovernmental agreement since 1997.
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03.01.08 (18:46)
Ukrainian border guards detain 21 illegal migrants
During the recent 24 hours Ukrainian border guards detained 21 illegal migrants from China, Afghanistan, Moldova.
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19.12.07 (19:25)
Foreign Minister meets ethnic Hungarian leaders in Ukraine
Uzhhorod, December 18 (MTI) - Foreign Minister Kinga Goncz met leaders of ethnic Hungarian organisations and churches in Uzhhorod on Tuesday.
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