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- Ukraine Fills Freedom Gap in Ex-Soviet Bloc
KIEV, Ukraine ? A gloomy Vladimir Putin wears a Czarist crown, clutching a bag full of dollars and a miniature television tower. Filipp Pishchik says this and similar cartoons, depicting the former president as a corrupt leader who stifles free speech,
- ">Ukrainian cabinet endorses GUAM
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- Ukrainian ambassador visits SCCI
SIALKOT: The ambassador of Ukraine, Pasko Ihor paid a visit to Sialkot Chamber Commerce & Industry (SCCI) on their invitation along with a delegation. The delegation comprised on Commercial Attach Wiladimer CEO of M/s DGS Global the organizers of 1st
- Veterans boo Ukraine's Yushchenko over WWII controversy
Yushchenko, whose father fought in the Red Army and survived Auschwitz concentration camp, insisted that the UPA 'struggled towards one sole objective, for honour, liberty and the (Ukrainian) fatherland.' He has repeatedly tried, in vain, to bring about
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Richly endowed in natural resources, Ukraine has been fought over and subjugated for centuries; its 20th-century struggle for liberty is not yet complete. A short-lived independence from Russia (1917-1920) was followed by brutal Soviet rule that engineered two artificial famines (1921-22 and 1932-33) in which over 8 million died, and World War II, in which German and Soviet armies were responsible for some 7 million more deaths. Although independence was attained in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR, true freedom remains elusive as many of the former Soviet elite remain entrenched, stalling efforts at economic reform, privatization, and civic liberties.
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