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		<title>Science 4 Business Kick-Off at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by: Gaia Self, Economic Analyst for Environment, Science, Technology and Health U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine John Tefft spoke on February 10 at a kick-off event for the new Science 4 Business Initiative (S4B) at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI), which gave me the opportunity to participate. The event was organized by the Science and Technology [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usembassykyiv.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15886455&amp;post=767&amp;subd=usembassykyiv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adoptions Deepen U.S.-Ukraine Connections</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by: Stephen MacLeod, Consular Officer On a bitterly cold February day in Kyiv, Ambassador John Tefft hosted a special discussion with four American families who adopted seven children from Ukraine. The excitement in the room was palpable as the kids had just received their visas to travel to their new homes and would be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usembassykyiv.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15886455&amp;post=758&amp;subd=usembassykyiv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>African American History Month Essay Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of African American History Month, we invite you to write an essay or story in English or Ukrainian of no more than 500 words highlighting some aspect of African American History. You might, for example, write a story about your own experiences with African Americans (in real life or via the media), tackle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usembassykyiv.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15886455&amp;post=751&amp;subd=usembassykyiv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>USAID Municipal Heating Reform Project “Save Heat, Save Ukraine!”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by: Erin Concors, Senior Communications Advisor, USAID As a humanitarian aid volunteer in Ukraine in the 1990s, I discovered many ways to stay warm during the long Ukrainian winters. I experimented with local methods of heating the small apartment that I rented on Kyiv’s left bank, since I had no control over my apartment’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usembassykyiv.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15886455&amp;post=739&amp;subd=usembassykyiv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Webinar Builds on U.S.-Ukraine Strategic Partnership</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by: Gaia Self, Economic Analyst for Environment, Science, Technology and Health On November 22, U.S. Embassy Kyiv hosted a web seminar to survey commercial scientific databases and explain the standards and requirements for publication in international scientific journals. The webinar completed another action item for the Science and Technology Working Group (STWG), under the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usembassykyiv.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15886455&amp;post=733&amp;subd=usembassykyiv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Snow has landed!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by: Llywelyn Graeme, Ambassador&#8217;s Executive Assistant We had the first snowfall of the year this week and it reminded me how lovely Kyiv is in the winter. The first winter I was here we had a major wet snowfall that caught everyone off guard. It was my favorite kind of snow, very packable to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usembassykyiv.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15886455&amp;post=714&amp;subd=usembassykyiv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It’s Thanksgiving Everywhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted By Jason Gilpin, Contracting and Agreement Officer, USAID Regional Mission for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova For many people around the world, Thanksgiving is a quintessentially American Holiday. This holiday combines an assortment; a plate of folklore, a great bounty of food, a side of sports and a generous helping of commercial mass media, all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usembassykyiv.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15886455&amp;post=697&amp;subd=usembassykyiv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Brief History of Thanksgiving</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by: Oksana Kluchko, Journalist/Embassy Community Member Thanksgiving Day is a truly great American holiday. It commemorates a series of events which took place in the 17th Century. It was on December 11, 1620 that the Pilgrims set ground on Plymouth Rock. Their first winter was devastating. At the beginning of the following fall, they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usembassykyiv.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15886455&amp;post=683&amp;subd=usembassykyiv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Veterans Day and American Indian Heritage Month</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by: Daniel Cisek, Deputy Press Attaché November 11 is Veterans Day and November is American Indian Heritage Month. To mark both occasions, we are posting an article that originally appeared on the website of the Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State. Veterans Day and the Navajo Code Talkers American Indians have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usembassykyiv.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15886455&amp;post=659&amp;subd=usembassykyiv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advancing Nuclear Medicine in Ukraine</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by: Gaia Self, Economic Analyst for Environment, Science, Technology and Health On September 17th I traveled to Kharkiv to attend a three-day international workshop on “Nuclear Medicine: Physics, Engineering and Practice,” which brought together over 100 scientists from 13 Ukrainian and 11 international research institutes. This forum was the first of its kind in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usembassykyiv.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15886455&amp;post=589&amp;subd=usembassykyiv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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