| September 28, 2008 | -
Somali pirates lowered from $35 million to $20 million their ransom demands for a captured Ukrainian ship carrying 33 Russian tanks and various munitions.
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BBC
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| August 11, 2007 | - An eight-foot-five-inch Ukrainian, Leonid Stadnyk, was declared the world's tallest man; locals attributed his size to a brain operation in adolescence, and the penurious Stadnyk lamented that his continuous growth had ended his career as a veterinarian when he became too large to fit into a car and his fingers grew too big for him to press buttons. “Doctors tell me I will live a long life,” he said. “I hope it will be in happiness.”
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Scotsman
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| November 15, 2006 | -
Forests were expanding in Spain, Ukraine, Vietnam, and China.
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Times Online
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| July 26, 2005 | -
Ukraine fired all of its traffic policemen; traffic was not noticeably affected.
| Source:
Motoring.co.za
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| March 18, 2005 | -
Ukraine revealed that, between 1999 and 2001, local arms dealers had smuggled eighteen nuclear-capable Kh-55 cruise missiles to Iran and China.
| Source:
BBC News
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| January 1, 2005 | - Viktor Yanukovich resigned as prime minister of Ukraine, though he continued to insist that the presidential runoff election, which he lost, had been fraudulent. The Central Election Commission disagreed, as did international observers,
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 27, 2004 | - Viktor Yushchenko, his face still disfigured from dioxin poisoning, appeared to have won the presidency of the Ukraine over Viktor Yanukovich.
| Source:
New York Timesimes
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| December 14, 2004 | - Some speculated that the poison was mixed into soup fed to Yushchenko during a dinner with the Ukrainian security service on the night before he became ill in September.
| Source:
The Australian
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| December 11, 2004 | - Doctors determined that the mysterious facial disfigurement of Viktor Yushchenko, the Ukrainian opposition leader, was caused by dioxin, a component of Agent Orange; his blood was found to contain over a thousand times the normal human level of dioxin.
| Source:
BBC
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| December 5, 2004 | - The Ukrainian opposition candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, who promises to increase Ukraine's ties to the West, celebrated the court's decision with thousands of protesters in Kiev's Independence Square. Stricken by a mysterious illness that has left his face a mask of puffy, red cysts and lesions, Yushchenko said to the crowd, "This is the face of today's Ukraine."
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New York Times
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| December 3, 2004 | -
Ukraine's Supreme Court ordered a second presidential run-off to be held by December 26 after it ruled last month's fraud-plagued election invalid.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 22, 2004 | -
Ukraine elected Viktor Yanukovich as its president, although observers said the election failed to meet international standards.
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 1, 2004 | - George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist, was splattered with mayonnaise by Ukrainian militants.
| Source:
Guardian
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| March 25, 2004 | -
Ukraine's minister of defense announced that quite a few missiles that were supposed to have been decommissioned after the fall of the Soviet Union were in fact lost. "Unfortunately strange things happen," he said. "We are currently looking for several hundred missiles."
| Source:
BBC
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