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Also on Instytutska, the building that was supposed to be an extension for the National Fine Arts Museum: I may be wrong, but I think it’s been there in its present, unfinished, form since way back in the early 1990s. If they ever finish it, they’ll probably turn it into a business center, instead of [...]
This photo says tons about what Kyiv is like these days: A Ukrainian-language sign on Instytutska: Please don’t park your cars on the lawn. Added in handwriting: Why not?
We’re in Kyiv. One of the first things that greeted us was this mess at the playground in front of our building – same as ever:
Here’s what I wrote last week: The way they park – and drive! – on Khreshchatyk’s sidewalks is SO BAD. But it’s a norm by now. In a way, it’s our new “Ми разом, нас багато, і нас не подолати!” (The main slogan of Maidan 2004: “We’re together, there’re many of us, and we cannot [...]
A cab driver said today that the crazy Kyiv center construction ideas originated from the city’s new arrivals, for whom Kyiv is limited to Podil and Pechersk and who’d never consider setting their lavish offices elsewhere. Considering the amount of property acquired by our folks in London, it is perhaps logical to expect Kyiv-style high-rise [...]
I’ve created a new album on Flickr – KYIV: Construction. The most recent pictures (15 of them) are from the construction at Vozdvyzhenska St.: I’m not going to bother sharing my impressions of this nouveau riche neighborhood in the making. Instead, here’s what the street looked like before – what a ghost town it used [...]
The way they park – and drive! – on Khreshchatyk’s sidewalks is SO BAD. But it’s a norm by now. In a way, it’s our new “Ми разом, нас багато, і нас не подолати!” (The main slogan of Maidan 2004: “We’re together, there’re many of us, and we cannot be defeated!”) *** The way they [...]
I originally posted the following as comments to the previous post – but now, in the morning, Mishah says it’s too long and would probably look better in a post of its own, so here goes. *** Thanks, Sasha, for posting these Svoboda Slova clips: Part 1Part 2Part 3 *** Henadiy Moskal is unbelievable. When [...]
I originally posted the following as comments to the previous post – but now, in the morning, Mishah says it’s too long and would probably look better in a post of its own, so here goes. *** Thanks, Sasha, for posting these Svoboda Slova clips: Part 1Part 2Part 3 *** Henadiy Moskal is unbelievable. When [...]
I originally posted the following as comments to the previous post – but now, in the morning, Mishah says it’s too long and would probably look better in a post of its own, so here goes. *** Thanks, Sasha, for posting these Svoboda Slova clips: Part 1Part 2Part 3 *** Henadiy Moskal is unbelievable. When [...]
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