Archive for the ‘ukraine’ Category
Global Voices OnlineSaturday, May 31, 2008 On May 12, Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov was declared persona non grata in Ukraine, following his calls for Russia to take ownership of Sevastopol, a Ukrainian Black Sea naval port. (Earlier GV translations about the incident are here and here.) On May 15, Russia denied entry to Vladyslav Kaskiv, [...]
Global Voices OnlineThursday, May 22, 2008 Last week, Ukraine banned Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov from the country, after he called for Russia to take ownership of Sevastopol, a Ukrainian Black Sea naval port. The incident received much coverage in the Russian and Ukrainian media and blogs; some bloggers’ reactions can be found in an earlier [...]
Global Voices OnlineThursday, May 15, 2008 Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov got himself barred from Ukraine this week, after announcing during a trip to Sevastopol – “a Ukrainian naval base mutually used by the Ukrainian Navy and Russian Navy” – that the city did not belong to Ukraine. Below are a few opinions from the Russophone [...]
Global Voices OnlineMonday, April 21, 2008 On April 13, Oleg Panfilov – LJ user oleg_panfilov, director of the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations – reposted an item (RUS) from a Central Asian news agency Ferghana.ru on the dismantling of the International Friendship Monument in downtown Tashkent. The news got many people upset: there are [...]
Global Voices OnlineThursday, January 24, 2008 On Tuesday, Ukrainian news site Korrespondent.net posted a translation of Mark Franchetti’s recent Sunday Times story on Ukraine’s porous borders and illegal migration. “Britain is target in Ukraine’s people smuggling bonanza,” the article’s headline declared. “With most border controls in Eastern Europe now gone, people smuggling has become easy [...]
Global Voices OnlineTuesday, January 22, 2008 Taras of Ukrainiana reports on a deadly car accident that took place in Odesa this month: On Jan. 12, an 18-year old Odesite crashed his Toyota Prado into a Daewoo Lanos moving on the opposite lane, killing one person and wounding two others in an accident that involved a [...]
Global Voices OnlineTuesday, December 25, 2007 Yulia Tymoshenko returned as Ukraine’s prime minister on Dec. 18. Five days later, she was in Donetsk region, visiting the site of Ukraine’s worst coal mining accident, the troubled Zasyadko mine. Taras of Ukrainiana wrote this about the politics of the trip: [...] One of the major events I [...]
Global Voices OnlineWednesday, November 28, 2007 It’s been nearly two months since the Sept. 30 snap parliamentary election in Ukraine, and although there are plenty of “democratic coalition” promises and hopes in the air, it has yet to materialize. Or not. President Victor Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine-People’s Self-Defense Bloc (NUNS) and that of his Orange Revolution [...]
Global Voices OnlineWednesday, November 28, 2007 It’s been nearly two months since the Sept. 30 snap parliamentary election in Ukraine, and although there are plenty of “democratic coalition” promises and hopes in the air, it has yet to materialize. Or not. President Victor Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine-People’s Self-Defense Bloc (NUNS) and that of his Orange Revolution [...]
Global Voices OnlineSunday, November 25, 2007 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 [...]
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