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Ukraine might lose Eurovision-2017
Ukraine may lose the right to host the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. According to TSN, this was announced by the acting director general of the National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU), Oleksandr Harebin.
“In early October, the European Broadcasting Union, as the owner of the Eurovision brand, gave the NTU a red card with regard to the timing and the actual failure to prepare for Eurovision,” Harebin said.
According to him, the contest could be derailed because of the bureaucracy in …
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Former PM Azarov expressed his wish to return to Ukraine
The congress of the so-called Union of Political Migrants and Prisoners of Ukraine, under the leadership of the former prime minister of Ukraine, Mykola Azarov, who fled to the Russian Federation during Maidan, was held in Russia.
“Each of the participants of the congress has had a difficult fate, they had to leave their native land in challenging conditions, go through tortures and abuses,” Azarov wrote on his Facebook page on November 27.
The former prime minister of Ukraine added that a …
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Representatives of a Czech NGO were expelled from separatist-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine
The Czech non-governmental organization People in Need (PIN) reported on its website that the self-proclaimed authorities of Donetsk revoked accreditation for the organization to work in the region. The representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic came to the local office of People in Need on November 26 to announce its decision.
They didn’t give a reason for the revocation of accreditation. A warehouse belonging to the Czech organization containing humanitarian supplies …
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European Commission President sees no argument for lifting sanctions on Russia
The president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, stated in his interview to Euronews that he sees no argument for lifting sanctions imposed against the Russian Federation for its occupation of the Crimea and aggression in the Donbas.
“So far, I haven’t seen any argument for an immediate lifting of sanctions imposed against Russia. I would like to have an agreement with Russia that would go beyond ordinary boundaries; I mean that there is no security in Europe without Russia,” …
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Ukraine releases KGB documents pertaining to famine in 1932-1933 known as Holodomor
On Saturday, November 26, Soviet KGB document on repressions during the famine of 1932-1933, known as Holodomor, were made public in Ukraine, and released in an electronic archive. Mainly, these are demonstrative documents: indictments, pictures and protocols that previously were unavailable to the public. According to the Director of the State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine Andriy Kohut, search and systematization of the documents that shed light on this tragic page of Ukrainian …