News & Views Directory 1

news front page
articles directory

This is a full directory of all 19 articles about Kiev, listed in reverse order, with the most recent article at the top. If you'd prefer to search for some particular article, please use the search facility on the news front page.

Zoo blames mystery man for animal deaths
The amount of animal deaths at Kiev zoo has been steadily rising over the past few years, and it has come to a point where animal activists have decided to take...

Current Affairs

Hotels push to be ready for Euro 2012
For many hoteliers, the European Football Championship in 2012 provides a one-time opportunity to enter the Ukrainian tourism market. However, despite construc...

Current Affairs

Euro 2012 Final Confirmed for Kiev
Michel Platini, UEFA President, has confirmed Kiev's reconstructed Olympic Stadium as the location of the Euro football championships final in 2012. Poland'...

City Focus

Kiev - A Gastronomic Capital City
Foodies delight, despite the economic woes of the world, Kiev is seeing more and more new eateries opening up in the city centre. And far from serving up the u...

Business

No-one Nose What Will Happen to Lenin Now
An attack which swiped off the nose of the only surviving statue of Lenin in Kiev, has triggered a debate about whether it should be removed permanently or rest...

City Focus

Rats, Raditation and Remains
Kiev's 400 or so lakes and ponds have been condemned as places chock-a-block full of rodents, radioactive waste and rotten corpses, by some environmentalists an...

City Focus

Don't Bet on Being Able to Gamble in Kiev
Don’t expect to be able to flutter your cash in Kiev any time soon, after the Ukrainian Government took the gambling industry by shock and closed down all casin...

Current Affairs

Kiev 2012!
According to UEFA, Kiev is the only Ukrainian city confirmed as one of the venues of the EURO 2012 championships. Three other Ukrainian cities (Lviv, Donetsk an...

Comment

Kiev Buildings Scraped Off
Kiev Mayor Leonid Chernovetzky, along with Ukrainian state authorities decided to clean Kiev buildings from antisemitic graffiti and writings, after the Jewish ...

Comment

Want To Win $1.000.000? This Is What You Do...
Can you think of a better way of increasing the city's budget than charging people for visiting cementeries? Well, apparently the mayor of Kiev, Leonid Chernove...

Comment

The Orange Revolution Celebration Banned
From November 2004 to January 2005 Ukraine was undergoing severe changes. Gatherings of people and series of protests took place after the presidential election...

Comment

Dynamo vs. Spartak in Old Rivalry
Dynamo Kiev will go head to head with Spartak Moscow tonight for the first in a two-leg qualifying match in the Champions League. The two teams enjoy a fierce r...

Comment

Wizzair Lands in Kiev
Low cost carriers Wizzair have arrived in Kiev and set up their latest European base at Borispol Airport, in a move that should radically change the transport s...

Comment

Euro 2012 Final A Step Closer For Kiev
Ukraine's government secured a deal this week with a commercial property developer to tear down part of a shopping centre and enable Kiev's Olympic Stadium to b...

Comment

Ukraine Remembers Holomodor
Victor Yushchenko himself was present at the opening of the new exhibition "Ukraine Remembers! Holodomor 1932-1933 ñ Genocide of the Ukrainian nation." Outsi...

History

Scotland To Host Ukraine
Scotland will welcome group rivals Ukraine to Glasgow this weekend in what should be a very tough qualifying match for the Euro 2008 Football Championships. ...

Comment

Dynamo Want Shevchenko Back
Dynamo Kiev have told Chelsea that they would like to take on loan the player, and local hero, Andriy Shevchenko, whom they sold to AC Milan in 1999. Since ...

Comment

EU Remains Distant For Ukraine
The European Commission, has once again stated publicly at a meeting of the European Parliament in Strasbourg that it opposes giving Ukraine a concrete promise ...

Current Affairs

Relics Save Pilgrim in Kiev
Often considered a second Jerusalem thanks to it's many churches and the sacred Pechersk Lavra Caves Monastery, the city of Kiev recently witnessed what many ar...

Comment

1