Several nations made individual promises, including Ukraine.

VOA: special.2010.04.17

Muscovy had been one of the tributaries of the Mongols, who sacked Kiev in the 1230s, after pouring into Russia and what now is Ukraine.

俄国曾是蒙古的进贡国之一,1230年代,蒙古人洗劫了基辅,蒙古铁骑涌入俄国以及现在的乌克兰

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Similarly, Odessa, the chief city of Ukraine, apart from Kiev, was a Greek city and likewise on the northern shore of Turkey there are Greek cities to be found.

同样地,敖德萨,在现在的乌克兰,但不包括基普,也曾是座古希腊城市,同样在土耳其北岸,也能发现古希腊的城市

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But even in Ms.Tymoshenko's political stronghold of Western Ukraine voters have mixed feelings about her attempts to become president.

VOA: standard.2010.02.14

Among the participants was Sevastopol city councilman Yevgeniy Dubovik, a member of the pro-Russian and far left Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

Because that is the way to make transition a reality,". The foreign ministers discussed progress by Georgia and Ukraine toward eventual NATO membership.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

Western Europeans are skeptical of Washington's support for fast-tracking Ukraine and Georgian membership in the NATO alliance.

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

In Ukraine,HIV/AIDS patients and their supporters protested earlier this month against the possible closure of an HIV ward at a hospital in Kiev.

VOA: standard.2010.07.17

In December,Hungary,Slovakia and the Czech Republic faced a potential halt in oil deliveries from Russia which had a pricing dispute with neighboring Ukraine.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

So membership for Ukraine and Georgia is not going to be in the offing anytime soon,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

"I do not think that exchanging Russia for Turkmenistan or Ukraine for Turkey, if it was the only step, would be that very smart,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

The Kremlin's media grip has prompted several prominent Russian journalists to move their programs to Ukraine.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

During a recent trip to Ukraine, U.S.Vice-President Joe Biden reaffirmed Ukraine's right to join NATO.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

James Sherr,with the London-based research organization Chatham House, says there are two reasons for Russia's position, especially when it comes to Ukraine's NATO membership bid.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

"There was clearly opposition from France and Germany to fast-track membership for Ukraine and Georgia,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

Two other former Soviet Republics Georgia and Ukraine have expressed interest in becoming NATO members.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

"The United States supports Ukraine's sovereignty, independence and freedom, and to make its own choices its own choices - including what alliances they choose to belong,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

(Speaking) She says when the Orange Revolution began, they decided to return to Ukraine.

VOA: standard.2010.02.14

In a protest against him on Monday in the city of Lviv, Ukraine's Congress of Young Nationalists collected old Soviet history books to turn them into pulp.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

They cite Russia's brief war with Georgia and Russia's confrontations with Ukraine over natural gas supplies last year as reasons to remain skeptical about the Kremlin's intentions.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

Ronald Suny, with the University of Chicago, sees other reasons why Georgia's and Ukraine's NATO membership bids are In his words, on the very,very distant back burner.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

And it would be extraordinarily difficult to bring Georgia and Ukraine into NATO.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

He adds that,unfortunately, post-Soviet countries, including Russia and Ukraine, have also preserved the Soviet system in which historians are funded by the state, rather than private foundations.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

In addition to Georgia, Clinton also visited Ukraine, Poland,Azerbaijan and Armenia.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

Right now, And that has created problems - like in January, when a gas pricing dispute with Ukraine cut energy supplies and left a number of Europeans without heat.

VOA: standard.2009.05.08

Energy has become a major concern in several Western countries, after a dispute between Ukraine and Russia over prices led to major natural gas shortages in Europe earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Kvit adds that most contemporary Ukrainian politicians are heavily influenced by Soviet-style thinking, but even they understand the reality of free speech in Ukraine, which remains despite changes in government.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

(Speaking) Prime Minister Tymoshenko says "Ukraine's election was falsified."

VOA: standard.2010.02.14

There is also international concern that a long post-election battle may worsen Ukraine's economic outlook and delay the release of more than $16 billion in emergency assistance from the International Monetary Fund.

VOA: standard.2010.02.14

The Nabucco pipeline aims to bypass Russia and Ukraine, after natural gas price disputes between the two neighbors led to serious disruptions in supplies to the rest of Europe earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11