Archive for September, 2006
And here’s an unusually short Zerkalo Nedeli piece (RUS):
At the end of the nine-hour session of the Cabinet of Ministers, prime minister [Yanukovych] remembered to mention that he was getting requests from numerous PMs to initiate amnesty for those citizens of Ukraine who were sentenced for their participation in falsifying the 2004 election (their sentences [...]
And here’s an unusually short Zerkalo Nedeli piece (RUS):
At the end of the nine-hour session of the Cabinet of Ministers, prime minister [Yanukovych] remembered to mention that he was getting requests from numerous PMs to initiate amnesty for those citizens of Ukraine who were sentenced for their participation in falsifying the 2004 election (their sentences [...]
I’m reading about the utilities and tariffs disasters – a typically endless piece in Zerkalo Nedeli (in Russian, though they’ll probably translate it sometime next week). The piece covers Donetsk, Odesa and Zaporizhzhya regions (dry stats for the last two).
Here’re two passages on hot water in Donetsk region:
Donetsk region’s housing and communal services system is [...]
I’m reading about the utilities and tariffs disasters – a typically endless piece in Zerkalo Nedeli (in Russian, though they’ll probably translate it sometime next week). The piece covers Donetsk, Odesa and Zaporizhzhya regions (dry stats for the last two).
Here’re two passages on hot water in Donetsk region:
Donetsk region’s housing and communal services system is [...]
We are still in Pushcha Vodytsya; the view from one of our windows, the one facing the children’s playground, is still ugly – mountains of sand and clay, kids playing war on top of them, and a few guys still working down in the pits, fixing something, speaking in Ukrainian, cursing in Russian (cursing [...]
We are still in Pushcha Vodytsya; the view from one of our windows, the one facing the children’s playground, is still ugly – mountains of sand and clay, kids playing war on top of them, and a few guys still working down in the pits, fixing something, speaking in Ukrainian, cursing in Russian (cursing [...]
Global Voices OnlineSaturday, September 30, 2006
Dominican Cathedral in Lviv, built in the late 18th century. In the Soviet times, the building housed Lviv’s atheism museum, which has now been transformed into the museum of religion; also, organ music concerts and religious services are being held in the cathedral. (Photo by Lyncis/Cyril Kalugin.)
The wonderful Western Ukrainian [...]
Global Voices OnlineThursday, September 28, 2006
Stones and flowers were laid at the Babiy Yar Memorial in Kyiv Wednesday, to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the 1941 massacre – by Veronica Khokhlova
In 1941, at least 33,771 Kyiv Jews were shot by the Nazis on Sept. 29 and Sept. 30, in the Babiy Yar ravine of Ukraine’s [...]
Global Voices OnlineThursday, September 28, 2006
Stones and flowers were laid at the Babiy Yar Memorial in Kyiv Wednesday, to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the 1941 massacre – by Veronica Khokhlova
In 1941, at least 33,771 Kyiv Jews were shot by the Nazis on Sept. 29 and Sept. 30, in the Babiy Yar ravine of Ukraine’s [...]
I think I saw it on the news yesterday and today – there are rallies against rises in utility rates, in Kryvyi Rih, in Kharkiv. But I was running back and forth between the kitchen and the TV room, so I might have missed something. Maybe they were showing archive footage. There’s a piece in [...]
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