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Ukrainian Space Agency sends Bebo social network users’ messages into space
The Message From Earth project, which launches on August 4, will invite Bebo users, celebrities and politicians to submit messages and pictures that “consider the planet from a fresh perspective” and raise awareness of environmental pressures on our planet.
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RDF is covering the £20,000 data cost of the four-and-a-half-hour transmission from the National Space Agency in [...] -
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Ukrainian detained in the US for assaulting e-mails to Ukrainian President?
According to recent report by Ukrainian Security Service (see article in Russian):
- Somebody sent assaulting and threatening e-mails to the President of Ukraine;
- Ukrainian Security Service cooperating with FBI defined his personality and whereabouts: this was Ukrainian national staying in Miami;
- They are now working to extradite him to Ukraine;
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Investors from German-Speaking Countries on PrivateDC Business Tour to Ukraine and Russia
06.14.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsBrains to Ventures have recently brought to Ukraine and Russia a bunch of investors from Germany, Switzerland and Austria looking for connections with Eastern European IT business. PrivateDC business tour included visiting St. Petersburg, Moscow and Kyiv.
Program of the tour may be found on PrivateDC website.
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Eastern European Links: Richest Man in Europe, Seedcamp Follow-Up, Social Media Used by Neo-Nazis, McCain’s Ukrainian Connections
Ukrainiana: Akhmetov, Net Worth $31.1B, Named Richest Man in Ukraine, CIS, EU
Summary: According to recent research by Dragon Capital and Korresponent magazine Rinat Akhmetov of Ukraine is becoming the richest person of Europe with USD 31.1 billion assets. Second richest Viktor Pinchuk with $8.8B is sponsoring Paul McCartney’s open air concert tonight in Kyiv.
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Great Ukrainians scandal in the BBC News
I blogged about this story. Here is audio update.
The BBC’s Gabriel Gatehouse reports on a controversy a local TV show that asked viewers to name the greatest Ukrainian of all time.
Originally published here.
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Seedcamp cosider starting another full-fledged Seedcamp in Central and Eastern Europe. Account of Seedcamp Eastern Europe
Internet marketing in Ukraine on May 21-22
Seedcamp Eastern Europe on May 21-22
Seedforum Kyiv on May 22
All in Kyiv, all in different locations. I visited Internet marketing in Ukraine on Wednesday, Seedcamp on Thursday but haven’t managed to attend Seedforum.
Seedcamp was brought to Kyiv by IDE Gruop, UK-based company founded by Ukrainians.
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Ukrainian ‘Great Britons’ format show accused in voting fraud
05.19.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsGreat Britons was a program of BBC in 2002 featuring public voting to determine who is considered to be the greatest persons of UK’s history. Seems it was so far ago, so that Great Britons page on BBC site is missing now. Anyway you can enjoy press release and Wikipedia article . This format was [...]
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Recent AP and BBC pieces on Ukraine
Associated Press on the festival I curated:
During the past two years, Belarusian expatriates have held an annual “Belarusian Spring” festival, featuring fare banned back home — movies, poetry readings, underground rock bands.
This year’s festival kicked off with a dozen activists racing down Kiev’s main avenue on cross-country skis when snow was nowhere to be seen. [...]
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