Archive for July, 2009
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
i do not like conspiracies but this stinks to high heaven. on Saturday Yushchenko declares his candidacy and 4 days later Pukach is arrested. Coincidence? They never are in Ukraine.
Video here:
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2009/7/22/98747.htm
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
RFERL, July 21, 2009
Why Do Cities, Streets Of Russia Continue To Carry The Names Of Executioners?
by Vladimir Kara-Muza
I never thought I’d find myself agreeing with Vladimir Yakunin.
A product of the “organs” (it is widely believed that in the 1980s he worked as a KGB agent in New York), a member ...
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
WALL STREET JOURNAL EUROPE
JULY 9, 2009
Historical Battle Lines
Why is Russia afraid of a 300-year-old Ukrainian hero?
By ADRIAN KARATNYCKY and ALEXANDER J. MOTYL
Lord Byron, Pushkin, and Victor Hugo wrote poems about him. Liszt composed a symphonic work in his honor, Tchaikovsky devoted an opera to him, and Gericault painted him tied ...
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Monday, July 6th, 2009
http://www.proua.com/analitic/2009/07/03/164010.html
I wrote this up in Korrespondent:
http://blogs.korrespondent.net/celebrities/blog/taraskuzo/a11313
The translation is below:
The Russification of Yatseniuk’s Election Campaign
Just as US President Barack Obama was landing in Moscow for an important visit to “re-set” the button in US-Russian relations, pro-ua.com (3 July) and Ukrayinska Pravda (6 July) published similar investigative reports into the russification of ...
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Saturday, July 4th, 2009
Ukraine will unveil two monuments to Ivan Mazepa on 24 August in Poltava and Kyiv.
Ukrainian Summary of State Duma resolution:
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2009/7/4/97791.htm
Russian report from Novosti:
http://news.km.ru/gosduma_rf_prinyala_zayavlenie_k
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