News / Society

• 19August 2008

• • 20:05
  • War in Georgia will force Ukraine to revise its defense concept. Military starting to beef up defenses in southern and eastern regions

• 31July 2008

• • 21:23
  • EU to look into humiliating treatment of Ukrainian labor migrants by German police
• • 21:16
  • Anti-sanitary conditions in flood-stricken villages, Eurovision song contest winner Ruslana says

• 30July 2008

• • 19:28
  • Gongadze’s mother against giving her son’s name to streets, installing monuments
• • 18:15
  • If Lviv oblast turns away from NATO, it will become “black hole” – Oleh Soskin

• 29July 2008

• • 22:28
  • Drunken Ternopil lawmaker gets hotel staff over barrel
• • 21:26
  • Bartholomew didn’t want to irk Russia patriarch, gave hope of creating national church in Ukraine - theology expert Andry Yurash
• • 19:50
  • Flood kills 30 in Western Ukraine

• 28July 2008

• • 21:44
  • Cabinet to pay out cash compensations to flood-hit residents of Ukraine
• • 21:14
  • Despite the ban, Duma deputy Zatulin is in Crimea… on billboards
• • 20:53
  • Flood kills 22 Ukrainians. 40,000 homes flooded

• 25July 2008

• • 20:49
  • Severe rains and floods hit Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv oblasts. Locals evacuated by troops
• • 19:41
  • Soviet red stars appear in nationalist Lviv

• 23July 2008

• • 19:15
  • SBU publicizes list of Soviet high-ranking officials who engineered Holodomor and repression in Ukraine

• 21July 2008

• • 19:01
  • Controversial monument unveiled at Veretsky Pass in Carpathians

• 17July 2008

• • 21:12
  • Yanukovych drives a wedge among Ukrainian Cossacks
• • 20:07
  • Hitman kills businessman and son of well-known soccer player in downtown Lviv
• • 19:08
  • Only limited number of Ukrainian journalists can enter EU under simplified travel agreement

• 16July 2008

• • 20:06
  • Svoboda leader Tyahnybok to attend UPA commemorative event July 18-20 in Ivano-Frankivsk oblast
• • 18:49
  • Russia won’t be able to pull out its fleet from Crimea by 2017, Ukraine first Navy Commander Borys Kozhyn says

• 15July 2008

• • 19:51
  • Forgotten Ozhydiv

• 14July 2008

• • 20:01
  • Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyiv Patriarchate) calls on other Orthodox churches in Ukraine to pull out of Moscow orbit

• 11July 2008

• • 20:42
  • Education Minister Vakarchuk finds himself between rock and hard place as Regions accuse him of infringing on minorities’ rights and Svoboda of kow-towing to minorities

• 10July 2008

• • 18:26
  • Lviv Commies threaten rough going for NATO troops at Poland-Ukraine border
• • 17:53
  • Slovakia imposes tougher terms for simplified travel for Ukrainians than Hungary

• 09July 2008

• • 19:18
  • Svoboda Zakarpattya branch won’t let Hungarians unveil monument on Veretsky Pass
• • 18:06
  • World Yiddish diaspora to flock to Chernivtsi to discuss the role of Yiddish
• • 17:27
  • Ukraine lawmakers to get fat vacation bonuses - $7,000 each

• 08July 2008

• • 19:32
  • Lviv lawmakers appeal to president and prosecution to ban “monument to OUN-UPA victims” in Svatovo and Luhansk
• • 18:36
  • Ternopil residents like NATO more than their brethren in Lviv or Ivano-Frankivsk

• 07July 2008

• • 19:17
  • Verkhovna Rada is a seat of anti-Banderite coalition, Yaroslav Kendzior says

• 02July 2008

• • 18:59
  • Illegal Ukrainian immigrant brutally murdered and burnt in Czech republic

• 26June 2008

• • 17:53
  • In July, remains of Roman Shukhevych’s mother to be reburied in Lviv
• • 16:29
  • No chance for Commies to disrupt memorial events for UPA General Roman Shukhevych in Lviv

• 25June 2008

• • 07:18
  • $5 million in government funding to be received by Lviv for relief works after killer hurricane

• 24June 2008

• • 17:52
  • Donetsk-based lawmaker urges Donetsk, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk to help hurricane-hit Lviv

• 23June 2008

• • 21:35
  • Police, not Premier Tymoshenko’s British-born son-in-law, used violence in Odesa
• • 19:54
  • Security Service foils attempt by two high-ranking managers in Lviv to sell defense secrets to a foreign country

• 19June 2008

• • 18:16
  • Officials embezzle money allocated for repairs in disaster-hit village in Lviv oblast
• • 13:27
  • While lawyer of Gongadze murderers is on vacation abroad, Supreme Court won’t consider appeals