Russia, Ukraine: Gas and Soccer
Written byVeronica Khokhlova
LJ user dobrokhotov wrote this (RUS) on Jan. 18 about the Russian-Ukrainian gas deal: “What nonsense, it's been, like, two days already since they agreed on the price of gas, but they haven't yet announced officially what the price is. This is unprecedented nonsense, almost like if the Ukrainian and Russian soccer teams played against each other, but instead of broadcasting the game, they'd have coaches come out to journalists and say: “Thank God, the game was a success, there were 20 percent more goals scored than in an average European game.”
Written byVeronica Khokhlova
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The former Soviet territory always had two troubles: roads and fools. But life goes on, and the list of troubles gets certain national colour. It seems, that in Ukraine now it is necessary to be afraid not only of “fools” and “roads”, but “ crisis struggle” and “Euro 2012 preparation”.
Kharkov is going to host Euro-2012 games. The city will accept ten thousand fans from Europe. And none of them knows, that during 2007 year 10423 tuberculosis infected persons have died in Ukraine. Many of them have forgotten, that illness. Germany, Finland, Austria, Italy do not inoculate their citizenzs against this lethal disease.
http://ua-ru-news.blogspot.com/2009/01/shvonders-struggle-with-crisis.html