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http://www.unian.net/eng/news/news-264080.html

When businesses enter into contracts with the US government, the US government demands - and gets - all sorts of information about the entities with whom it is going to do business.

Ambassador Taylor would not be making his comments if this were taking place in the US. The problem in Ukraine is that Yushchenko is looking to Akhmetov to prop him up as a money-man for his next presidential bid. Yanukovych is an old sovok hand, along with Akhmetov, and they are used to sovok-style corruption - they've already robbed country blind.

In Ukraine, there is law - but no legality. This deal, and all the sovok-style attempts by Yushchenko to white-wash this deal, at the expense of the people of his country, just to further enrich Akhmetov and unknown other rats who barged their way in after the deal was made, stinks to high heaven.]]>ComicfigurWed, 23 Jul 2008 03:48:39 +0000http://orangeukraine.squarespace.com/journal/2008/6/23/out-of-action.html#comments13352:88592:comment/1644968nichessTue, 22 Jul 2008 07:32:09 +0000http://orangeukraine.squarespace.com/journal/2008/6/23/new-site-page-list-of-philanthropic-ideas.html#comments13352:88592:comment/1642491

http://www.forza.org.ua/]]>Jeff MowattFri, 04 Jul 2008 07:57:05 +0000http://orangeukraine.squarespace.com/journal/2008/6/23/new-site-page-list-of-philanthropic-ideas.html#comments13352:88592:comment/1597273
Both native Ukrainians, for me they stand out as shining examples of making social commi tment without weighing the personal cost or benefit.

http://www.schwabfound.org/schwabentrepreneurs.htm?schwabid=689

http://deti.zp.ua/eng/index.php

Jeff]]>David QuinnThu, 03 Jul 2008 23:45:51 +0000http://orangeukraine.squarespace.com/journal/2008/6/23/new-site-page-list-of-philanthropic-ideas.html#comments13352:88592:comment/1596706
I know of two very good religious organizations working in Ukraine. One is Mission Without Borders. It is large, well organized, and has been working for nearly 45 years in Eastern Europe. The other is called Open Arms Ukraine. It is small and just getting started but is run by a group of young women who care greatly about young children and teens in desperate situations.Both groups are concerned with caring for orphans and children in need and I would trust them to do a great job.

Websites:
Mission Without Borders:
http://www.mwbi.org/
Open Arms Ukraine: http://www.openarmsukraine.org/wordpress-2.5.1/wordpress/]]>MichelleThu, 03 Jul 2008 14:45:09 +0000http://orangeukraine.squarespace.com/journal/2008/6/23/new-site-page-list-of-philanthropic-ideas.html#comments13352:88592:comment/1595801BlackMinorcaPulletsMon, 30 Jun 2008 02:08:56 +0000http://orangeukraine.squarespace.com/journal/2008/6/23/out-of-action.html#comments13352:88592:comment/1588194
The Sich

]]>KyivanSun, 29 Jun 2008 06:24:38 +0000http://orangeukraine.squarespace.com/journal/2008/1/20/skinheads.html#comments13352:88592:comment/1587302We do not go to Africa or Asia to enjoy other people's work fruit and to get easy money by selling drugs or kidnapping people.]]>elmerFri, 27 Jun 2008 12:48:03 +0000http://orangeukraine.squarespace.com/journal/2008/5/25/watching-the-tube.html#comments13352:88592:comment/1583183
Now, and "interdepartmental commission of experts" has decided that all was fair and square.

Here it is, folks, the conclusion of these experts. How could anyone possibly question how the deal wound up in the hands of Vanco British Virgin Islands and Akhmetov and Novitsky and an unknown Austrian entity, Integrum?

http://ukraine-observer.com/index.php?c=1835


"Borys Sobolyev, the secretary of the interdepartmental commission said: “All members of the working commission confirmed that Vanco had provided enough proof that it had technical and technological capabilities to carry out works and to explore difficult areas and deposits of the sea shelf in general.”

See, see - they stole it fair and square. Akhmetov stole it fair and square, and his buddy Yanukovych probably thinks so too, since Yanukovych was the one who approved the deal.

And Yushchenko is trying to get "political capital" out of Ukraine's richest billionaire, worth $31 billion.

The experts said so, and that's that.

Sovok habits die hard.]]>