It was unveiled in 2011 by the Lobortas Classic Jewellery House of Kiev, Ukraine.
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While Mr Medvedev was in Kiev, Ukraine's parliament voted overwhelmingly to take part in military exercises with NATO.
The Eurovision final in Kiev, Ukraine, is due to take place on 21 May - when Jordan will be eight months pregnant.
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Its businessmen hope that, within a few years, a motorway will link it with Budapest, Hungary's capital, and perhaps even with Kiev, Ukraine's.
Leszek Balcerowicz, the Polish finance minister who has overseen Poland's economic reforms, was in Kiev, Ukraine's capital, last week, once more urging Ukrainians to reform.
KIEV, Ukraine It's hard to know exactly when it happened, but somewhere along the road to Euro 2012, the England national soccer team became a laughingstock in the sport it claims to have invented.
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But that is what Kiev and the rest of Ukraine are like: nothing ventured, nothing gained.
It would give Russia total gas control over South East Europe, and inherent hegemony over Ukraine given that Kiev would lose its current role as a European transit state.
Easy credit and a property boom have seen Ukraine's capital Kiev expand rapidly but the global downturn has seen investors and those willing to offer loans withdraw.
The diagnosis of hypertension came only a week after he took over the Dynamo Kiev job after resigning from the Ukraine national team post and two days after his new team beat Dinamo Zagreb 2-0 on match-day 2 of the UEFA Champions League.
Like Likhodeyev, who is magically transported to the Crimean resort of Yalta, Mr Rybkin resurfaced abruptly on February 10th in Ukraine's capital, Kiev.
On Sunday, Russia cut off gas to Ukraine, in response to Kiev's refusal to accept a fourfold price increase imposed in violation of an existing contract.
Talking to broadcaster ZDF, Mr Westerwelle also said an EU political and trade deal with Ukraine could not be ratified unless Kiev adhered to the rule of law.
Its true shareholders are unknown, and Carlos Pascual, then U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, remarked at a conference in Kiev that he feared it was connected to organized crime.
This year's bishops' council voted to excommunicate Metropolitan Filaret of Kiev, who has set up a schismatic church in Ukraine one of several that now battle for that nation's souls.
Gazprom has reassured Europe that its natural gas supply, which runs through Ukraine, will not be affected by the dispute with Kiev.
In Ukraine, the news website Ukrayinska Pravda reports that flooding in Kiev had forced President Viktor Yanukovych - widely known for his aloofness and for shunning contact with ordinary Ukrainians if possible - to travel to work by trolleybus.
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In 2009, disputes between Moscow and Kiev over the status of this network led Russia to cut off gas to Ukraine during a bitterly cold winter.
Ukraine is co-hosting the tournament with Poland but so far only its capital Kiev has been deemed a suitable venue.
But Mr Milinkevic could not claim that he had won the vote, as Viktor Yushchenko, now Ukraine's president, did in last winter's stand-off in Kiev.
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Common sense suggests that, toward this end, the U.S. should encourage Ukraine to retain the nuclear arms it inherited from the former Soviet Union -- not insist that Kiev surrender them to Moscow.
If approved by the parliament in Kiev (a big if), this accord evidently will substitute as-yet-unannounced American security guarantees to Ukraine for a local nuclear deterrent capability.
Observers say the visit will be a chance for the pope to put behind him the first difficult leg of his trip in Kiev, where the leader of the largest of three rival Orthodox Churches snubbed him by boycotting a meeting of all Ukraine's religious groups.
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