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Here are two more pics for the ‘Turks in Ukraine’ series at The Turkish Invasion (the first installment featured my shot of Karadeniz Cafe at Poznyaki).
KATYA + LEYLA = arkadashiki: a Ukrainian-Turkish friendship, Tatu-style, sort of (arkadaş is ‘friend’ in Turkish):

“Dudu Döner – Turkish shawarma” – near Svyatoshyn metro station:

A quick note:
I’m really excited to have discovered this blog about Crimea and Crimean Tatars:
My Simferopol Home
Marusia, the blogger, also has a page at MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/tsarinamaria
Lots of good stuff.
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The 64th anniversary of the 1944 deportations is on Sunday.

WordPress, a blog-publishing platform, is blocked in Turkey, and here’s the note that opens in my browser instead of, for example, Natalia Antonova’s blog:

It’s very annoying.
And perhaps as efficient as hanging a curtain in the middle of your room, to help yourself pretend the rest of the family isn’t really there, the way many people [...]

WordPress, a blog-publishing platform, is blocked in Turkey, and here’s the note that opens in my browser instead of, for example, Natalia Antonova’s blog:

It’s very annoying.
And perhaps as efficient as hanging a curtain in the middle of your room, to help yourself pretend the rest of the family isn’t really there, the way many people [...]

MoldovAnn posts a detailed report on observing the election at a polling station in Kyiv where Ukraine’s foreign minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk cast his vote, accompanied by rather threatening-looking secret service folks.
I wonder if anyone else is blogging about observing this election. Please send me the links if you discover any. Thanks a lot.

MoldovAnn posts a detailed report on observing the election at a polling station in Kyiv where Ukraine’s foreign minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk cast his vote, accompanied by rather threatening-looking secret service folks.
I wonder if anyone else is blogging about observing this election. Please send me the links if you discover any. Thanks a lot.

Taras of Ukrainiana has just posted an invaluable resource for anyone who would like to experience the 2007 parliamentary election campaign the way ordinary Ukrainians – those who own a TV set, at least – have: a comprehensive collection of videos of campaign ads by seven Ukrainian blocs and parties – translated into English!
Thank you [...]

Taras of Ukrainiana has just posted an invaluable resource for anyone who would like to experience the 2007 parliamentary election campaign the way ordinary Ukrainians – those who own a TV set, at least – have: a comprehensive collection of videos of campaign ads by seven Ukrainian blocs and parties – translated into English!
Thank you [...]

Inspired, I guess, by this post – and the comments – on the “language issue” over at the wonderful Ukrainiana, I’ve done a GV translation on the subject – here.
P.S. The original I was translating from – a blog post at Korrespondent.net – doesn’t open now for some reason. I think all their blogs are [...]

Inspired, I guess, by this post – and the comments – on the “language issue” over at the wonderful Ukrainiana, I’ve done a GV translation on the subject – here.
P.S. The original I was translating from – a blog post at Korrespondent.net – doesn’t open now for some reason. I think all their blogs are [...]