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  • 3
    Mar
    2013
    4:04pm, EST

    Underpass serves as dance hall for Ukrainian retirees

    Gleb Garanich / Reuters

    Mykola Milevsky, 75, left, and Natalia Stolyarenko, 58, stand in their apartment as they prepare to attend an amateur dance gathering in Kiev, Ukraine, Feb. 24.

    The dance gathering for pensioners has taken place every Saturday and Sunday for about 20 years in an underpass near a city center metro station in Kiev, Ukraine, where city authorities have allowed the group to meet, as it cannot afford to rent a location. For the gathering's attendees, it is one of the few opportunities to meet and socialize. A few couples have met through the event, and several have settled down to live with each other. Milevsky and Stolyarenko are one of those couples and have lived together for more than four years.

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    A couple hug as Mykola Milevsky and Natalia Stolyarenko dance.

     

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  • 13
    Dec
    2012
    8:02am, EST

    Ukraine lawmakers brawl in parliament for second day running

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    Opposition and pro-presidential lawmakers scuffle on the podium during a session of the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev on December 13, 2012.

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    Deputies of the opposition fight with deputies of the majority for a second time in two days on December 13, 2012.

    Seconds out, Round 2! Fights broke out in the Ukrainian parliament for a second time in two days on Thursday, Agence France-Presse reports.

    The opening session of the Verkhkovna Rada on Wednesday began in a typically raucous fashion (as seen on PhotoBlog yesterday) as a fight erupted in the chamber between opposition MPs and two deputies whom they accused of defecting to the pro-government camp. Several lawmakers from the opposition nationalist Svoboda group chased two men they called "turncoats" — a father and a son — to prevent them from taking the oath.  

    Ukraine's parliament has seen several physical confrontations in recent years amid bitterness between opposition and pro-government camps. 

    Sergei Chuzavkov / AP

    Ukrainian lawmakers fight around the rostrum on Dec. 13, 2012.

    Sergei Supinsky / AFP - Getty Images

    Deputies of the opposition fight with deputies of majority party during the opening of the newly elected parliament on December 12, 2012.

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    Deputies fight for a second time in two days, during the second session of the newly elected parliament on December 13, 2012.

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    Scuffles between lawmakers from Ukraine's ruling party and the opposition broke out in the country's parliament once again on Thursday morning over the election of parliamentary officials. NBCNews.com's Alex Witt reports.

    30 comments

    it takes passion for something you stand for to fight like that. Our lawmakers are not passionate about anything except lining their pockets with money, thats why they would never fight. They do not care enough about anything except their own wealth and the building of it. Nuff Said, Semper Fi!!

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  • 12
    Dec
    2012
    8:44am, EST

    Ukraine parliament convenes amid protest, shoving

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    Ukrainian deputies push and shove on December 12, 2012 before the opening ceremony of the newly elected Ukrainian parliament in Kiev.

    Sergei Chuzavkov / AP

    Heavyweight Champion boxer Vitali Klitschko, center, talks to members of his group during the first session of the new parliament on Dec. 12, 2012.

    The first session of Ukraine's newly elected parliament was marred by a protest and a skirmish between deputies.  

    President Viktor Yanukovych's Party of Regions secured a slim majority in parliament after an election criticized by the West as unfair over the jailing of ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko.

    A group of opposition deputies took their places in parliament wearing matching sweaters featuring a portrait of Tymoshenko.

    New opposition faces taking the oath on Wednesday included world heavyweight boxing champion Vitaly Klitschko, who heads the UDAR (Punch) party, and Oleh Tyahnybok, leader of the Svoboda far-right nationalists who made a surprisingly strong showing in the October poll.

    -- The Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, Reuters

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    Ukrainian opposition deputies wear sweaters featuring a portrait of jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and reading on the reverse "Free political prisoners!".

    Anastasiya Sirotkina / Pool via Reuters

    Members of parliament scuffle with colleagues elected from their party but who later refused to join a faction, at the first session of newly-elected Ukrainian parliament on December 12, 2012.

    Andrew Kravchenko / Pool via Reuters

    Members of parliament scuffle with colleagues elected from their party but who later refused to join a faction, at the first session of parliament on December 12, 2012.

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  • 25
    Jul
    2012
    8:30pm, EDT

    A fashion show for disabled women in Ukraine

    Gleb Garanich / Reuters

    A model with physical disabilities, left, takes part in a "Fashion Week Chance" show in Kiev, Ukraine on July 25, 2012. Ukrainian fashion designers presented haute couture collections for women with physical disabilities at a special show in Kiev.

    Gleb Garanich / Reuters

    Make-up artists work on models with physical disabilities before a "Fashion Week Chance" show in Kiev, Ukraine on July 25.

    Gleb Garanich / Reuters

    A model with physical disabilities waits to participate in a "Fashion Week Chance" show in Kiev, Ukraine on July 25.

    Gleb Garanich / Reuters

    Models with physical disabilities prepare to take part in a "Fashion Week Chance" show in Kiev, Ukraine on July 25.

     

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    this is a bold move in the right direction & am a fan.good job

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  • 4
    Jul
    2012
    7:16am, EDT

    Ukraine seethes after Russian language law voted in

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    Ukrainian opposition activists clash with riot police on July 4, 2012 during a protest in Kiev against a new language law. Several people were left covered in blood and broken glass littered the street. The police used tear gas in an apparent bid to bring the situation under control.

    Efrem Lukatsky / AP

    Opposition protesters spray tear gas against riot police in front of the Ukrainian House in central Kiev on July 4, 2012.

    Efrem Lukatsky / AP

    Blood is seen on a face of a riot policeman during a clash with opposition protesters in central Kiev on July 4, 2012.

    Reuters reports — Police fired teargas and used batons to disperse hundreds of protesters in Kiev on Wednesday and Ukraine's parliament speaker offered to quit after the passing of a law to boost the status of the Russian language in the former Soviet republic.

    Protesters, led by opposition members of parliament defending the role of Ukrainian as the only state language, had massed in front of a building where President Viktor Yanukovich was due to hold a press briefing.

    "There are millions of us and they cannot pretend that nothing has happened," said Vitali Klitschko, the world heavyweight boxing champion who has founded his own opposition party - Udar (Blow), and took part in Wednesday's protest.

     Read the full story.

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    Vitali Klitschko, center, heavyweight boxing champion and leader of Ukrainian political party UDAR, looks at blood on his hand as he walks away after police fired teargas in Kiev on July 4, 2012.

    Anatolii Stepanov / Reuters

    Riot police block opposition activists during a rally to protest against a Russian language bill in Kiev on July 4, 2012.

    Sergey Dolzhenko / EPA

    Supporters of Ukrainian opposition parties clash with riot police in downtown Kiev on July 4, 2012.

     

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    Damn... Buddy was spraying the police with tear gas.... Wow!!!

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  • 20
    May
    2012
    3:40pm, EDT

    Head of Gay Forum of Ukraine beaten in Kiev

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    Anatolii Stepanov / Reuters

    Unidentified people beat Svyatoslav Sheremet (on ground), head of the Gay Forum of Ukraine public organization, in Kiev, May 20. Sheremet was attacked after meeting with members of the media to inform them that a scheduled gay parade was canceled. The attackers ran off when they realised members of the media were documenting the attack.

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    Couldn't help but notice the Giants hat on the attackers head. I have the utmost respect for that organization but this is a perfect opportunity for Tom Coughlin and then rest of the Giants organization to address the issue of discrimination in our society. After all, the Giants represent NYC which  …

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  • 6
    Mar
    2012
    12:52am, EST

    Two-headed turtle with six legs on display in Kiev

    Efrem Lukatsky / AP

    A man displays a two-headed turtle 'Testudo horsfieldi' at National Museum of natural history in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, March 5, 2012. Besides the two heads the reptile has six legs.

    Related content: Animal Tracks

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    Hmmm... This looks like a tortoise. Turtles have webbed feet for swimming. This reptile does not. It has clubbed feet, and thick long toenails, which are used for digging. Tortoises live on land, turtles live in a water environment.

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  • 3
    Feb
    2012
    1:39pm, EST

    Extreme cold weather in Ukraine causes 101 deaths

    Gleb Garanich / Reuters

    Pedestrians walk near a metro entrance in an air temperature around minus 4 Fahrenheit in central Kiev, on Feb. 3. Thirty-eight more deaths from a cold snap have been registered in Ukraine in the past 24 hours, bringing to 101 the toll from freezing temperatures across the former Soviet republic, the Emergencies Ministry said on Friday.

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    An elderly woman is wrapped in thick winter clothes as she tries to sell cigarettes to passers-by in downtown Kiev, Ukraine, on Feb. 3. The death toll from the cold spell reached 101 in Ukraine, up from 63 reported killed by exposure on the day before. More than 1,200 people were treated for cold-related injuries, the Ukraine Ministry of Emergency Situations reported. Freezing cold and snowstorms over Eastern and Central Europe on Friday caused more deaths and disrupted traffic and energy supplies across the continent.

    Gleb Garanich / Reuters

    A sparrow with extended feathers due to the cold sits on a branch in an air temperature around minus 4 Fahrenheit in central Kiev, on Feb. 3. Thirty-eight more deaths from a cold snap have been registered in Ukraine in the past 24 hours, bringing to 101 the toll from freezing temperatures across the former Soviet republic, the Emergencies Ministry said on Friday.

    AP reports:

    In Ukraine, thirty-eight more fatalities were reported from frostbite and hypothermia on Friday, raising the nation's death toll to 101. Emergency officials have said many of the victims were homeless.

    Mykola Blyznyuk of the Health Ministry told the Kiev Post newspaper that many of the victims of hypothermia had broken their legs in falls and spent a long time on the ground in freezing temperatures while waiting for help to arrive.

    Of the Ukrainians who have died since the cold weather hit Jan. 27, 64 were found frozen on the streets, 11 died in hospitals and 26 in their homes, emergency officials said.

    It was so cold there, that some 1,500 swans, sea gulls and ducks froze to the ice in a small harbor near Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odessa, forcing emergency workers to use ships to break up the surface and free the birds, officials said.

    The weeklong cold snap — Eastern Europe's worst in decades — is causing power outages, frozen water pipes and the widespread closure of schools, nurseries, airports and bus routes.

    Read the full story.

     

    Gleb Garanich / Reuters

    A view of the frozen River Dnieper in an air temperature around minus 4 Fahrenheit in snow covered central Kiev, on Feb. 3.

    Sergei Chuzavkov / AP

    A woman looks through an icy window in a bus in Ukraine's capital, Kiev, on Feb. 3.

     

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    Wow Tarzan7, you're an a$$ hole... I hope someone shows you same compassion when your dumb a$$ freezes to death.

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  • 1
    Feb
    2012
    10:45am, EST

    Deep freeze hits eastern Europe

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    A girls run next to a dam as covered with ice as sea water is frozen in Constanta, east of Bucharest, on Feb. 1. Temperatures plunged in central Romania, eight people died due to cold related causes according to local media.

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    A girl with masked face walks in the centre of Kiev during on February 1. Forty-three have died of hypothermia in the Ukraine over the past six days as the country has suffered a severe spell of cold weather, the emergency services ministry said Wednesday. Most were homeless people who froze to death on the streets, while seven were found dead in their homes, and more than 800 people sought medical help for frostbite and hypothermia.

    Michael Dalder / Reuters

    A man walks below a frost covered Wendelstein church, Germany's highest church, on the 6030 foot high Wendelstein mountain near Bayrischzell on Feb. 1. Temperatures down to 7 degrees have hit parts of southern Germany in the last few days.

    Efrem Lukatsky / AP

    A Ukrainian man, covered with plastic sheeting to form a tent for protection from the wind and cold, fishes through an ice hole on the Dnipro river outside Cherkasy, central Ukraine. The death toll from a severe cold spell in Eastern Europe rose to over 71 Wednesday, most of them homeless people. Temperatures dropped tominus 22 F in some regions, causing power outages and traffic chaos and prompting authorities to close schools and nurseries.

     From msnbc.com news services:

    BELGRADE, Serbia — Rescue helicopters evacuated dozens of people from snow-blocked villages in Serbia and Bosnia and airlifted in emergency food and medicine as a severe cold spell kept Eastern Europe in its icy grip.

    The death toll from the cold rose to 79 on Wednesday and emergency crews worked overtime as temperatures sank to minus 26.5 F in some areas.

    Europe had enjoyed a relatively mild winter up until last weekend, but an Arctic system swinging in from the east brought that to an abrupt halt.

    Click here to read more about the dangerous cold snap in Eastern Europe.

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    Only a few months away from "The Big Band"

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  • 27
    May
    2011
    9:26am, EDT

    Students celebrate the end of the school year in Kiev

    Gleb Garanich / Reuters

    Secondary school graduates dressed in traditional uniforms dance in a fountain as they celebrate the last day of school in Kiev on May 27. Students across Ukraine celebrated the end of the academic year on Friday, traditionally called the "last bell".

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    Ukrainian students fool around in a fountain as they celebrate the end of their school term at the Independence square in downtown Kiev, Ukraine, on May 27.

     

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  • 9
    May
    2011
    10:23am, EDT

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    A Russian World War II veteran dances with a young woman dressed in a vintage military uniform during celebrations marking Victory Day in Gorky Park, Moscow, May 9.

    Efrem Lukatsky / AP

    Yuriy Trubachev kisses his wife Klavdiya both World War II veterans, as they celebrate Victory Day at a War museum in Kiev, Ukraine on May 9.

    Dancing and kisses during Victory Day celebrations in Moscow and Kiev

    By Phaedra Singelis, NBC News

    More photos from Victory Day celebrations.

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    Great photo. The Red Army bore the brunt of fighting in WWII. Most high school history textbooks in the U.S. focus on the actions of the U.S. and Great Britain on the Western front.

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  • 24
    Mar
    2011
    7:56am, EDT

    Ukrainian man standing under hotel balcony is killed by falling masonry

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    A policeman stands guard near the body of a young man killed when the fragment of a balcony of the Kozatskiy hotel fell on him in Kiev, Ukraine on March 24.

     

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    check out pics

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