May 18, 2008 in rus/ukr, rus: brodsky, rus: culture, rus: luzhkov, rus: politics, soviet history, ukr: culture, ukr: politics

If Yuri Luzhkov needed an anthem for his trips to Crimea, Joseph Brodsky’s 1991 poem on Ukraine’s independence (RUS) would, unfortunately, be a good fit. (The poem is posted on the blog of Soviet dissident Natalya Gorbanevskaya.)

May 17, 2008 in Blogroll, soviet history, ukr: crimean tatar, ukr: culture, ukr: history, ukr: politics

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. *** The 64th anniversary of the 1944 deportations is on Sunday.

May 13, 2008 in :))), blogosphere, neeka: life, neeka: photos, rus: medvedev, rus: moscow, rus: politics, rus: putin, soviet history

No photos from this year’s Victory Day, as we were returning from Istanbul on May 9. Instead, here’s the stuff that our building’s concierges posted on the walls by the entrance and inside the two elevators (as they say here, one elevator’s for the wife, the other’s for the mistress, to keep them from running [...]

November 25, 2007 in global voices, soviet history, ukr: holodomor

Tonight’s GV translation: Ukraine: Holodomor Last year’s Holodomor memorial at Sofiyivska Sq. in Kyiv (Nov. 25, 2006) – by Veronica Khokhlova This year, Nov. 24 was the day to remember the victims of the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine – Holodomor – and here is a selection of posts by Ukrainian bloggers. LJ user diana-ledi (UKR): [...]

November 25, 2007 in global voices, holodomor, soviet history

Tonight’s GV translation: Ukraine: Holodomor Last year’s Holodomor memorial at Sofiyivska Sq. in Kyiv (Nov. 25, 2006) – by Veronica Khokhlova This year, Nov. 24 was the day to remember the victims of the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine – Holodomor – and here is a selection of posts by Ukrainian bloggers. LJ user diana-ledi (UKR): [...]

November 25, 2007 in global voices, holodomor, soviet history

Tonight’s GV translation: Ukraine: Holodomor Last year’s Holodomor memorial at Sofiyivska Sq. in Kyiv (Nov. 25, 2006) – by Veronica Khokhlova This year, Nov. 24 was the day to remember the victims of the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine – Holodomor – and here is a selection of posts by Ukrainian bloggers. LJ user diana-ledi (UKR): [...]

November 25, 2007 in global voices, holodomor, soviet history

Tonight’s GV translation: Ukraine: Holodomor Last year’s Holodomor memorial at Sofiyivska Sq. in Kyiv (Nov. 25, 2006) – by Veronica Khokhlova This year, Nov. 24 was the day to remember the victims of the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine – Holodomor – and here is a selection of posts by Ukrainian bloggers. LJ user diana-ledi (UKR): [...]

October 17, 2007 in charity, global voices, soviet history, ukr: chernobyl, ukr: crimean tatar, ukr: politics

Two posts from my today’s GV reading: – MoldovAnn on Chernobyl aid programs – [...] I do believe aid organizations want to help people have better lives. But when I hear them talking about “we’re going to support this community because it’s not too far from Kyiv and we can easily visit it in a [...]

October 17, 2007 in charity, chernobyl, crimean tatars, global voices, soviet history, ukr: politics

Two posts from my today’s GV reading: – MoldovAnn on Chernobyl aid programs – [...] I do believe aid organizations want to help people have better lives. But when I hear them talking about “we’re going to support this community because it’s not too far from Kyiv and we can easily visit it in a [...]

October 17, 2007 in charity, chernobyl, crimean tatars, global voices, soviet history, ukr: politics

Two posts from my today’s GV reading: – MoldovAnn on Chernobyl aid programs – [...] I do believe aid organizations want to help people have better lives. But when I hear them talking about “we’re going to support this community because it’s not too far from Kyiv and we can easily visit it in a [...]