Word: kiev
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Lamont Library was never meant as a performance space for a Kiev ballet. But with the right touch, they figured, an improvised modern dance routine can be executed flawlessly on the third floor. The only problem is: security guards. After participating in dance routines, storytelling, and other artistic endeavors, the students were discovered by a library guard at around 4:30 a.m., over five hours after closing time...
...Yushchenko pledge. Yuri Kravchenko, who was the country's Interior Minister when Gongadze was killed, was found dead last week, just hours before he was due to give evidence in the case. Kuchma returned to Kiev on Saturday from the Czech Republic, and Yushchenko told Ukrainian TV that the former President's testimony "appears extremely important for the resolution of the case." In the longer term, boosting international confidence in Ukraine's economy will be crucial. Critically, outside experts say the country needs to improve corporate governance and the functioning of the nation's puny financial markets. Investors currently have...
...victims come from 40 countries around the world, but are mostly from Eastern Europe and Mexico. Girls in Kiev and Moscow are lured by traffickers with promises of jobs in America as models and actresses, but are instead taken to camps in Mexico where they are “broken in.” In Mexico, organized associations of pimps dispatch men to date and seduce local girls. One of these men will offer promises of marriage or an American visa, but will actually kidnap the girl, drug and beat her, and keep her in captivity...
...first time in 50 years, it is the U.S. that needs Europe's help, rather than the other way around. Americans realize that, without European diplomacy, money and soft power, freedom's march would be a lot more halting. In Kiev, Sarajevo, Ankara, Ramallah and even Tehran, the E.U. is having a more constructive impact than the U.S. Yet the E.U.'s transformative power is often confused with weakness. The E.U. doesn't change countries by threatening to invade them. Its biggest threat is not intervention but withdrawal of the hand of friendship and especially the prospect of membership...
...Davos. People "must feel that life is becoming steadier," Tymoshenko says. "Once they acquire new opportunities, all the fears and confrontations will collapse like a house of cards." Still, some Western businessmen are uneasy. "Yushchenko will be flying around the world and she'll be running things in Kiev - and running circles around him," says one U.S. exec who does a lot of business in Ukraine. Even so, Yushchenko is likely to be much better off with Tymoshenko heading his Cabinet rather than leading the opposition...