Crimean, Ukraine News

Since the beginning of the mysterious flu epidemic in at the end of October, at least 633 people have died in Ukraine from the unknown virus.

Dec 23 - International cooperation is increasingly important in space exploration, the head of Russia's Federal Space Agency has said.

Ukraine is set to start developing offshore oil and gas fields in the Black Sea from 2010, the Unian news agency quoted the ex-Soviet state's prime minister as saying on Saturday.

Yushchenko said that he had signed a decree ordering the Cabinet of Ministers and the Crimean Council of Ministers to draft within a month a bill introducing an economic regime in Crimea, which, in his opinion, would differ from that in the rest of Ukraine.

The Central Election Commission has registered 46 official foreign monitors over the Ukrainian presidential elections, according to National radio .

China has procured from Russia 12 Kilo class submarines and four 956E/EM DDGs, or guided missile destroyers, since 1993.

Bad weather in Ukraine caused delays in the traffic of long-distance and suburban trains.

The tourist portal Turist.rbc.ru prepared a rating of impressive attractions that were abandoned after the collapse of the USSR.

A potential deal that would see France selling advanced military technology to Russia has been causing concern among former Soviet states.

'Wood Nymph, or Ukraine Has Not Yet Died' is the name of an exhibit at Kyiv's art gallery Tsekh.

Oleg Shirokov for Salem-News.com Our Correspondent in Semferpol, Ukraine, reports that the city is experiencing an economic crisis, and an explosion in sex shops.

Via the Kyiv Post : Ukraine's health ministry confirms 457 deaths of flu . But the story is from December 4, and it's buried on the paper's website.

The outgoing leader of Crimea's Tatars says that NATO membership for Ukraine is the safest way to avoid a repeat of the Russian-Georgian war of 2008, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.

Russian intelligence service cells within Russia's Black Sea Fleet based in Sevastopol are to be dissolved and all FSB agents moved to Russia by mid-December, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.

The prosecution argues that, even with no living witnesses who can implicate Demjanjuk in specific acts of brutality or murder, just being a guard at a death camp means he was involved in the Nazis' machinery of destruction.

Kyiv-based Smart-holding plans to challenge in court the results of the privatization of OJSC Kryvorizhstal , the largest mining and metals company in Ukraine, a 93.02% stake in which was bought by Mittal Steel Germany at an open tender held on October 24, 2005.

From : Sebouh Z Tashjian Date : Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:04:11 +0400 ARMENIAN COMMUNITY OF CRIMEA MARKS 20TH ANNIVERSARY PanARMENIAN.Net 27.11.2009 12:43 GMT+04:00 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Events dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Armenian community of Crimea will be held in Simferopol on Friday.

"The language problem crops up every time during elections, as a rule thanks to politicians hardly speaking one language and forgetting about the matter immediately after the polls," Lytvyn said, asked by the press in Balaklava, Crimea, Friday.

On the Pushkinskaya Street, there is a one-story building, in which Stalin stayed during the civilian war in Ukraine.

Ukrainian presidential candidate Arseniy Yatseniuk has said that Crimea should become the "Ukrainian Hong Kong." Yatseniuk said this during a video linkup in Simferopol while answering a question from Crimean residents about what future he sees for the Autonomous Republic of Crimea as part of Ukraine.