Luhansk Oblast (Ukraine)

Orgy of bigots

Oleksandr Volodarsky is an action artist from Luhansk. He has a popular blog. On November 2, Volodarsky and an anonymous female partner stripped in front of the Verkhovna Rada and imitated having sex in full public view. They...

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Tymoshenko leaves on working visit to Luhansk region

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has left on a working visit to Luhansk region, the Cabinet of Ministers' press service reported in Saturday. The premier is to visit CJSC Severodonetsk Azot and chair a meeting on...

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Russia: Jehovah's Witnesses to be banned?

Following more than 500 check-ups on Jehovah's Witness communities across Russia, prosecutors in several regions are going to court to have various of their publications declared extremist. This would see their distribution...

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Synod of UOC-KP Confirmed Cadre Rotations and Blessed the Work on the Dialogue with the UOC-MP

KYIV — On October 21, 2009, in Kyiv, a session of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate (UOC-KP) was held under the leadership of Patriarch Filaret. The synod passed several important decisions as...

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Playing single-candidate game

Candidates for presidency are now hunting for the electorate, anxious to get votes by hook or by crook. Viktor Yanukovych, for example, is frequenting churches and orphanages. Just yesterday, for example, in the Chernivtsi...

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UPDATE 1-TNK-BP plans $1.3 billion oil refinery upgrades

By Vladimir Soldatkin and John Bowker MOSCOW, Oct 15 (Reuters) - TNK-BP, Russia's third-largest oil producer, plans to invest $1.3 billion over the next five years to modernise refineries in Russia and Ukraine, a senior company...

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UPDATE 1-TNK-BP plans $1.3 billion oil refinery upgrades

By Vladimir Soldatkin and John Bowker MOSCOW, Oct 15 (Reuters) - TNK-BP, Russia's third-largest oil producer, plans to invest $1.3 billion over the next five years to modernise refineries in Russia and Ukraine, a senior company...

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Ukrainian intelligence barred the Cossac leader from entering the country

The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has said that its decision not to allow a Russian citizen, a leader of the Don Cossacks, to enter Ukraine was legitimate, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reported earlier this week. The SBU's...

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Brazil mining services get output boost - reports

Russian steel maker Novolipetsk Steel is interested in buying ferro-manganese producer Alapaevsk Iron and Steel Works located in the Sverdlovsk region from the Ukrainian Privat Group. The region's minister of industry and...

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Council of Europe anti-torture Committee visits Ukraine

Council of Europe anti-torture Committee visits Ukraine Strasbourg, 23.09.2009 - A delegation of the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) recently...

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