Archive for November, 2007
Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Last weekend Ukraine commemorated the millions of Ukrainians who perished in the 1933 artificial famine. President Viktor Yushchenko has led the way in promoting these commemorations and has devoted a lot of his energy in revealing the horrors of Stalinist totalitarianism http://www.president.gov.ua/content/150_1.html
In 1983 the Ukrainian diaspora commemorated the fiftieth anniversary ...
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
In the last week controversy again reigns over who will be voted speaker
during the opening of parliament on 23 November. The Our Ukraine-Peoples
Self Defense bloc (NUNS) voted for the leader of the Our Ukraine party
Vyacheslav Kyrlylenko to be their candidate for speaker. President Viktor
Yushchenko and the presidential secretariat were seemingly ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Friends who have returned from Ukraine tell me that the person on the street is saying "Yushchenko will follow Moroz's fate". I had reached this conclusion myself but I always find it interesting to have my views confirmed by Ukrainians.
Two decades covering Soviet and Ukrainian affairs gives people like ...
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Sunday, November 18th, 2007
Is it time for Viktor Yushchenko to resign in disgrace?
Ukrayinska Pravda http://pravda.com.ua/news/2007/11/15/66906.htm published the Honorary Diploma that Serhiy Kivalov, the disgraced Chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC) in the 1st and 2nd rounds of the 2004 elections, was awarded by the Central Election Commission. Kivalov also obtained ...
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
I recently spoke at a book launch of Professor Robet Magocsi’s just published Ukraine. An Illustrated History. As with his previous numerous books on Ukrainian history this was again published by the University of Toronto press.
The largely Canadian-Ukrainian diaspora audience at St.Volodymyr’s Institute still remains skeptical about Professor Magocsi ...
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