RFE/RL BELARUS, UKRAINE, AND MOLDOVA REPORT
04.12.2012
A review of RFE/RL reporting and analysis about Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova. For more stories on Eastern Europe, please visit and bookmark our Eastern Europe page . |
BELARUS
 Hot Metal: Belarusian Steel Workers Strip For Company Calendar Now in its third year, the Byelorussian Steel Works (BMZ) corporate calendar has quickly become a firm company tradition. Following a trail that was first blazed nearly five decades ago by the Pirelli tire manufacturer, BMZ's yearly chronicle features racy (but tasteful) pictures of attractive females. More  New Belarusian Memorial To Slain Polish Officers Stolen A wooden cross commemorating Polish officers killed by Soviet forces during World War II has disappeared three days after it was placed at a memorial site outside the Belarusian capital. More Andrey Holosau contracted HIV through drug use in 1996. Since then, he has beaten drug addiction, learned to manage his health, and gotten married. He and his wife Hanna Tkachova, who is HIV-negative, live in the small city of Svetlahorsk. More  New Pressure On Life Evangelical Church In Minsk The embattled New Life Evangelical Church in Minsk is facing eviction again. More  EU To End Visas If Moldova Fights Corruption European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso says that the European Union will scrap visas for Moldova if the government makes progress against widespread corruption, improves democratic standards, and reforms its justice system. More  Global AIDS Crisis Eases, But Not In Former Soviet Union Ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1, the United Nations released a cautiously optimistic report suggesting the epidemic has begun to stabilize or even shrink in nearly every part of the world. But the countries of the former Soviet Union are an exception to the trend. More  Ukrainian Mayor Warns, 'Hands Off Berlusconi!' An expression of support for Ukraine's jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko by Rome's mayor this week has sparked a response in kind in Kharkiv, where Tymoshenko is serving her sentence. More  Commentary: The Femen Effect On Feminism Four years and a new office in Paris later, the Ukrainian activist group Femen, which professes to use “sextremism” to fight against patriarchy as manifested by dictatorship, the church, and the sex industry, more closely resembles a girlie show. More flash than substance. More At least 200 supporters of Ukraine's jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko have gathered in the eastern city of Kharkiv to congratulate her on her 52nd birthday. More |
