Word: kiev
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...ugly in the run up to the March 14 election? When Rybkin told his story late last week at a press conference in London, where he had fled, it was the third version he had offered. In the first account, he said he'd gone for a rest in Kiev. The next day he'd told a confused story of constant surveillance by the FSB, the state security agency, and growing concern for his safety while in the Ukrainian capital. Now - presumably free to speak the truth, although his wife and family remain in Russia - he explained that...
After Harvard, Hartje went on to play hockey for Kiev Sokol in Russia, later writing a book about his experience in the former Soviet Union entitled From Behind the Red Line: An American Hockey Player in Russia...
...nations of the former Soviet Union are laggards. Tambrands, now part of Procter & Gamble, started a plant in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1987 to make tampons. Local sourcing was crucial to Tambrands' strategy so that it didn't have to spend dollars. Cotton was not a problem. But there were few boxes. The Soviets favored tank and artillery factories over pulp and paper plants...
...Greeks staved off the Persians, Genghis Khan stopped short of Kiev, and the Cold War ended with no major Eastern incursions. But it appears that a new monster has risen from the East, this time in the form of 7’6 Rockets’ center Yao Ming. Yao has arrived in full force, and his impact has been felt both in the paint and in the world of marketing, where Yao has been a smash hit in the past year...
...newspaper outlets. Known as temniki, "theme lists," the directives outline the issues to be covered in news reports and provide instructions on how these issues are to be treated. For example, when mass protests take place - the most recent, in September, drew 100,000 people in the capital, Kiev - photographers are told to start taking pictures only after most of the demonstrators have departed, resulting in shots of a few stragglers milling around in a public square instead of tens of thousands shouting for Kuchma's resignation. Bland, uncritical television news programs - the main information source for most Ukrainians - fail...