Six months after a popular uprising toppled President Viktor Yanukovich, Ukraine’s new leaders are fighting wars on two fronts. One struggle is against Russian-backed insurgents in the east. The other is against staggering corruption that top officials say infected every level of government - and continues to this day.

Russian fighters’ thuggishness eroded Germany’s Putin-Verstehen

 

Ivan Kozlenko is deputy head of the National Film Centre of Ukraine and in charge of restoring and promoting Ukrainian and Soviet film classics. Here, he recommends his top five Ukrainian movies of all time, and describes the differences between film restoration in Ukraine and Western Europe.

 

 "The volume of social media information is increasing all the time," Higgins told Reuters. "In Ukraine, much more is available than anywhere we have seen before. It makes it much easier to identify what is going on."

 

The problem with social media is that what is reported is not necessarily accurate.

“In Frankfurt, investors bottom-fished for Mriya Agro Holding (MAYA GF +15.1%), which reached its lowest price in nearly five years on Aug. 5.”

 

To beat Putin, support Ukraine 2014/8/7 14:32:34

So far, Ukrainians have done more to thwart Mr. Putin than any action by outside powers. Before toppling President Viktor F. Yanukovych in February, Ukrainian protests stopped him from joining the Eurasian Economic Union, Mr. Putin’s most important foreign policy project.

 

 

The dollar slipped 0.5 percent versus the yen at 12:15 p.m. amid a spike in trading of yen futures on CME Group Inc.’s derivatives exchange. Trading climbed to 5,833 contracts at 12:15 p.m. and to almost 14,000 contracts a minute later, from 79 at 12:14 p.m. All yen futures contract trades stand after the move, Michael Shore, a spokesman at Chicago-based CME Group, said in an e-mailed response to questions. “If something moves, everyone jumps into that,” Axel Merk, president and founder of the Palo Alto, California-based Merk Investments LLC., said in a phone interview. “Everything moves in tandem these days.” Sharp moves are mostly the result of human error, not broken software, the Securities and Exchange Commission said on stock prices last year.

 

When you see the buildup of these troops, the sophistication and training of these troops, the heavy military equipment that’s being put on the border, of course it’s a reality and it’s a possibility,” Hagel told reporters at the headquarters of the U.S. European Command in Stuttgart, Germany.

 

Tsar Vladimir the First 2014/8/7 13:20:11

Putin isn’t trying to win the Cold War - he’s refighting the battles of World War I.

 

“…it is surprising that in Transcarpathia, at the same time that the Putinist policy in Moscow is to wage an undeclared war against Ukraine, the leadership of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) awards its highest honour for which clergy are eligible - the Jeweled Cross (second class) - to Archpriest Dmitry, who was recently prosecuted and sentenced for anti-state activities against the territorial integrity of Ukraine, as one of the main separatists in Transcarpathia.”

 

 

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