Inside News on Odessa and Ukraine
There has been so much written on gender equality over the years I am not going to attempt to write anything that would be meaningful, thoughtful or new. Suffice to say, Ukraine has just been ranked 64th globally when it comes to gender equality – drawing this response from Natalia Korolevska, the Ukrainian Minister for Social [...]
Right – Back on my soap box relating to an cause I passionately believe in. For once a flicker of light in an otherwise very black hole known as human trafficking. As it is no secret that convictions globally for this abhorrent crime are minimal – despite the sheer scale of the problem in terms [...]
Well, this entry is likely to get a lot of reading over the coming months – not because of ruminations it contains, but because it will contain those SEO magnetic key words of Ukraine, women, prostitution, sex, escorts and the like. One look at my blog statistics and it is clear to see that many [...]
Whilst waiting for the dust to settle from yesterday’s elections, here is an interesting survey from the World Economic Forum relating to “The Gender Gap.” When hovering the mouse over nations, it appears Ukraine seems to do rather well in comparison to EU CEE nations and a few EU Mediterranean nations as well. A bit [...]
“Challenging” – That I suspect would be the diplomatic word used by those nations who are facing a demographic slump, and there are many across the continent of Europe over the rest of this century and beyond. Here is a handy little graph from the Wall Street Journal as lifted from the UN. Tick box [...]
This post has the potential to be something of a mish-mash. In fact it could appear to be bolted together with the crudeness of a 1970′s Lada compared to a smooth finish of a modern day Bentley. That is the way of things sometimes. As it happens, it ties together a number of random occurrences [...]
One of the most notable achievements of European society (for better or for worse depending upon your point of view) has been the separation of church from State during the evolution of the continent, and the resulting secular State. For most European citizens, the Church is the Church and the State is the State and [...]
Today I was going to write about why reform in Ukraine is so slow and the bottom-up support that is missing. That will have to wait until I get around to it. Currently I am researching serious and organised crime for a document that will be published elsewhere in cyberspace in the months ahead. Certainly [...]
Elsewhere in cyberspace, in the Ukrainian and Russian forums to be exact, a debate is running relating to prostitution and the Euro2012 football tournament to be held here in about 3 months time. The debate is along the lines of prostitution remaining illegal and thus those traveling foreign fans, some of whom hail from nations [...]
Firstly, and especially for my Ukrainian and Russian female readers, but also for any other female readers, I wish you all a very special Woman’s Day. I hope you are pampered to within an inch of your lives and placed firmly on the pedestals your deserve if only for the day. As many men will [...]