en Copyright 2008 www.kyivpost.com kpletters@kpmedia.ua Winnipeg's International Centre for Infections Diseases is helping to develop a model HIV/AIDS prevention program in Ukraine, which has one of the world's fastest growing epidemics of the disease.
]]> Nation http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/51223 Section news Nation on www.kyivpost.com In a letter in the Kyiv Post last year, the writer pointedly mentioned that no Ukrainian had ever received the Nobel prize. A few years ago, Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko was nominated for the Nobel Prize for peace. It did not fly, as it became apparent that peace-making was not one of his strong points.
]]> Nation http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/51222 Section news Nation on www.kyivpost.com Verkhovna Rada Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn opts for letting Russia BSF stay in Crimea after its lease of Sevastopol expires, the speaker said in his interview with Fakty on Oct. 21,leading some experts to observe that the speaker is flirting with Russia.
]]> Nation http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/51220 Section news Nation on www.kyivpost.com Ukraine's opposition leader Viktor Yanukovich, ousted in 2005 after mass protests against a rigged presidential poll, launched a comeback bid on Friday with a pledge to end the "chaos" caused by the "Orange revolution" leaders.
]]> Nation http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/51219 Section news Nation on www.kyivpost.com Five people have applied to be registered as candidates in Ukraine's January 2010 presidential election, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
]]> Nation http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/51218 Section news Nation on www.kyivpost.com Kyiv and Moscow have come to an agreement to "gradually" reduce lists of Russians who are denied entry to Ukraine and Ukrainians banned from entering Russia, Ukraine's foreign minister said on Friday.
]]> Nation http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/51211 Section news Nation on www.kyivpost.com Ukrainian Foreign Minister Petro Poroshenko is satisfied with his visit to Moscow. When upon his arrival at Kyiv Boryspil airport on Friday night he was asked whether his visit to Moscow was successful at a briefing, Poroshenko said: “No doubt.”
]]> Nation http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/51210 Section news Nation on www.kyivpost.com Regions Party Leader Viktor Yanukovych has said that his chief coal as president will be raising living standards of Ukrainians to the European level.
]]> Nation http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/51208 Section news Nation on www.kyivpost.com Party of Regions Leader Viktor Yanukovych has said that if elected president he will strive for Ukraine’s being a non-aligned state.
]]> Nation http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/51207 Section news Nation on www.kyivpost.com Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko has asked that Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko take under personal control the issue of paying off wage arrears in the country and undertake all of the necessary measures to improve the situation in this sphere.
]]> Nation http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/51204 Section news Nation on www.kyivpost.com Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko has appointed Yuriy Kytsul head of the department of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in Chernivtsi region.
]]> Nation http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/51203 Section news Nation on www.kyivpost.com Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko has signed a decree on sending a team of Ukrainian peacekeepers to Cote d'Ivoire as operational support for a United Nations mission.
]]> Nation http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/51201 Section news Nation on www.kyivpost.com Ukraine supports cooperation between Belarus and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) via Belarus's joining the conventions of the Council of Europe, according to the Ukrainian Foreign Minisry's press service.
]]> Nation http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/51200 Section news Nation on www.kyivpost.com The family members of the crew of the Ariana, who were taken hostage over five months ago by Somali pirates, have held a rally outside the office in Odesa of the state firm Ukrcrewing, which hired the ship's crew.
]]> Nation http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/51197 Section news Nation on www.kyivpost.com The row between the presidents of Russia and Ukraine Dmitry Medvedev and Viktor Yuschenko, who exchanged angry statements in August, is over, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Petro Poroshenko believes.
]]> Nation http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/51196 Section news Nation on www.kyivpost.com Ukraine will buy vaccine against the Ŕ/H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, from producer countries if there is the need for it, according to Oleksandr Bilovol, the first deputy health minister and state chief health inspector.
]]> Nation http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/51195 Section news Nation on www.kyivpost.com ]]> Nation http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/51194 Section news Nation on www.kyivpost.com The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, has ratified a supplementary protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 that foresees the adoption of an additional distinctive emblem of the International Movement of Red Cross and Red Crescent.
]]> Nation http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/51192 Section news Nation on www.kyivpost.com ]]> Nation http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/51191 Section news Nation on www.kyivpost.com Her children were exposed as rape victims on Oct. 13 in a shuddering national scandal. In her interview with Gazeta Po-Kievski, she was reserved and weighed every word. She seemed liked an introverted person who unwillingly ended up on front pages and has no idea how to get back to a normal life.
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