Archive for November, 2006
Amazing pictures from a breathtakingly beautiful traditional Hutsul-style wedding – by Lviv-based LJ user dali-bude and his wife Marichka (the newlyweds’ names are Ostap and Olya).
Amazing pictures from a breathtakingly beautiful traditional Hutsul-style wedding – by Lviv-based LJ user dali-bude and his wife Marichka (the newlyweds’ names are Ostap and Olya).
Holodomor-as-genocide news: from the Party of the Regions, only Taras Chornovil and Yanukovych’s former press secretary Hanna Herman voted in favor of the bill; none of the Communists voted.
Here’s part of an AP story:
Ukraine’s parliament on Tuesday adopted a bill recognizing the Soviet-era forced famine as genocide against the Ukrainian people, a move seen as [...]
Holodomor-as-genocide news: from the Party of the Regions, only Taras Chornovil and Yanukovych’s former press secretary Hanna Herman voted in favor of the bill; none of the Communists voted.
Here’s part of an AP story:
Ukraine’s parliament on Tuesday adopted a bill recognizing the Soviet-era forced famine as genocide against the Ukrainian people, a move seen as [...]
March 2003Newtopia Magazine
November 2003The Story Garden
In times of distress, I turn to Italian pop music of the 1980s: Riccardo Fogli and Pupo have the strongest therapeutic effect on me. Passionate yet soothing, and only God knows what they are singing about in this wonderful language of theirs. Must be love, sunshine and the breathtaking blue-eyed [...]
February 2003Newtopia Magazine
In 1995, my first journalistic mentor recommended that I try writing a piece on the demographic crisis in Ukraine. All I had to say then was, “What crisis? My best high school friend is about to give birth, and at least a dozen other acquaintances are also pregnant. We’re gonna have plenty new [...]
A note on Kyiv’s mayor: a week or so ago, he said on TV that one of the city’s chief medical officials has to be “chased out of Kyiv with a broom” – “gnat’ yeyo nuzhno metloy iz Kiyeva.”
Normally, you’d also mention that the broom’s been “dipped in shit” – “gnat’ srannoy metloy” – [...]
A note on Kyiv’s mayor: a week or so ago, he said on TV that one of the city’s chief medical officials has to be “chased out of Kyiv with a broom” – “gnat’ yeyo nuzhno metloy iz Kiyeva.”
Normally, you’d also mention that the broom’s been “dipped in shit” – “gnat’ srannoy metloy” – [...]
September 2002Newtopia Magazine
“Last summer, someone at work called me ‘cutie’ – and only now, after taking this class, do I realize how offensive that was,” announced a petite blonde sitting next to me in a classroom full of women. Some nodded with approval, others lowered their eyes sympathetically, but none smiled.
This is, indeed, an excellent [...]
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