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...with Europe in the grip of an unusual cold snap, political leaders are pressuring Moscow and Ukrainian capital Kiev to end the standoff and get the gas flowing again. Officials from the Czech Republic, which currently holds the presidency of the European Union and was one of the first nations affected by the gas pinch, denounced the Russian move as "absolutely unacceptable" and demanded that the two sides strike "an accord within the week...
...university in Moscow.Peisker spent the summer before her year abroad in Ukraine and decided that she wanted to go back. Nearly six months after initially having her classes approved for a full year in Moscow, she e-mailed a new proposal for her second term abroad: a program in Kiev, Ukraine. Receiving both approval and support, she thought she was set. Then, a month before her flight to Kiev, she was informed that the program was canceled. “We’ll figure something out,” Peisker recalls the OIP telling her. Through contacts...
...Airbus give the rollout of a new jetliner. In August a selection of the material was shipped for viewing to the Hamptons, the weekend retreat for New York millionaires. It also went to New Delhi, to wink at India's increasingly powerful collectors. In June Hirst flew to Kiev to attend a Paul McCartney concert and a party hosted by Victor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian steel billionaire who owns seven Hirsts and a private art museum. A month later the artist gave a private tour of some of the Sotheby's work to Daria Zhukova, a young, London-based art impresario...
...ambitions. Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, inhabited mostly by ethnic Russians and home to the Russian Black Sea fleet, is one of several areas with allure for Russian irredentists. (It was only in 1954 that Ukrainian-born Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev shifted administrative control over the Crimea from Moscow to Kiev...
...another phenomenon that is becoming familiar in this part of the world. Tens of thousands of young and old, children and lovers, lawyers and factory workers, gathered in the city center of Tbilisi Tuesday night to call for change. In the past, demonstrations of this kind - in Belgrade, Kiev, and here in Georgia - have been aimed at ousting the local regime. In this case, the target was the bear next door, Russia, for having invaded their tiny country. It was not just an outpouring of nationalist sentiment (though there was plenty of that), but an unexpected demonstration of solidarity against...