Illegal Mining in Ukraine
Region: UkraineBy Veronica Khokhlova Donetsk [1]-based blogger Stanislav Kmet (LJ user frankensstein) visited Severnyi, a decaying coal-mining village in eastern Ukraine, after a group of local residents emailed him asking for help in drawing attention to the illegal mining that threatens to ruin their homes. On January 10 -11, 2013, Kmet posted a photo report from the trip on his blog ( part 1 [2] and part 2 [3] here... more
Views: 772Ukraine: Bureaucracy and Incompetence at Defense Ministry
Region: UkraineSergei Maximishin (LJ user remetalk), an award-winning Russian photographer, has recently tried to get the Ukrainian defense ministry's assistance in doing a photo story on the Ukrainian navy and army for the German Stern. He and his colleague, Stern's correspondent Tilman Müller, ended up defeated by the Ukrainian bureaucratic monster. On his blog, Maximishin has posted a detailed account of the ordeal (RUS; the ... more
Views: 1495Ukraine: 65th Anniversary of the Crimean Tatar Deportations
Region: UkraineMay 18 marked the 65th anniversary of Sürgün, the 1944 deportations of Crimean Tatars from their homeland in Crimea. J. Otto Pohl wrote about the history of the deportations, and here is an excerpt from his post: On 18 May 1944, the Soviet NKVD began the systematic round up and deportation of nearly the entire Crimean Tatar population from their ancestral homeland to Uzbekistan and the Urals. Early in the... more
Views: 1180Google plans to take an active participation in an actual global initiative Green Ad Bonus
Region: Ukraine
Google plans to take an active participation in an actual global initiative Green Ad Bonus (Become the First 1% Club Member). In particular, according to Google's program Green AdWords Bonus, ads of the advanced green strategies, industries, technologies, products and services will be free (CPC&M=0,00$) and marked by green. more
Views: 1711An actual global initiative: Green Advertising Bonus
Region: Ukraine
Nick Yurchenko and Bohdan Yurchenko, authors, owners and developers of global web project Freeness & Openness, have advanced, January 15, 2009, an actual (taking into account modern climatic, ecological, energetic and other problems) initiative named Green Advertising Bonus (Green Ad Bonus). In frameworks of this initiative, they are addressing to all the members of world advertising market to allot no less than 1% of ... more
Views: 1487Russia and Ukraine Spar Over Words
Region: Ukraine
Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov was declared persona non grata in Ukraine earlier this month on 12 May, following his calls for Russia to take ownership of Sevastopol, a Ukrainian Black Sea naval port. (For earlier coverage in original text from Global Voices, click here and here). On May 15, Russia denied entry to Vladyslav Kaskiv, member of the Our Ukraine/People's Self-Defense Party in Ukrainian parliament and a k... more
Views: 1871Gardens Over the Moon
Region: UkraineWe have gotten closer to the days when there will be gardens on the Moon. According to scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA), recent studies have proven that marigolds are capable of growing in near-surface lunar rock-soil...and without need of plant food. "We would bring a system of water circulation and recovery, which is also the type of system that in any case you want to develop when you ... more
Views: 1895Barack Obama's program "On the way to United Green Nations!"
Region: Ukraine
Barack Obama plans to come forward with the program "On the way to United Green Nations!” on UN General Assembly. Key positions of his program are: Free Transfering the best at the present day nature-friendly industries, technologies, products and services through the national borders, plus Free Sharing the best green strategies globally. Barack Obama notes: “USA are ready to support all international effor... more
Views: 1300Ukraine in the OSCE: the chairmanship as a test for competence
Region: Ukraine
As it’s known, Ukraine will preside in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) within 2013. It is still the largest project on participation of Ukraine in operation of the powerful international organization. After successful carrying out of Euro-2012 it could be regarded as one more test on ability to solve challen... more
Views: 1054In this Nuclear and Warming World, Geoengineering is a good bite
Region: Ukraine
Nukes are more threats to this present world than global warming, this is seen from the attention, and commitments to preventing its deployment, by world leaders from the just concluded International Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul. The summit hosted leaders from more than 50 countries to keep the vision of a nuclear free world close. World leaders again brought attention to the issue at this critical time when two n... more
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