· December, 2006

Stories about Ukraine from December, 2006

Ukraine: Missionaries

  11 December 2006

From Ukraine With Love runs into the head of a baby cow lying in the middle of the street and writes about Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Hare Krishna and Baptists in Ukraine.

Ukraine: New Budget

  7 December 2006

It doesn't look like Ukrainian legislators are going to be as poor as the rest of the citizens when they retire: Foreign Notes reports on the new budget.

Ukraine: Scam

  7 December 2006

Music and Life – Everywhere! almost becomes victim of a popular scam in Kyiv – and doesn't realize it until much later!

Ukraine: Pirogovo

  5 December 2006

Ukraine List links to a Flickr set of photos of Pirogovo, the open-air museum of Ukrainian folk architecture.

Ukraine: Introduction to EU Legislation

  4 December 2006

Wu Wei writes about the process of adopting EU legislation and other developments in Ukraine: “There is a whole change of culture needed in Ukraine. New laws are regarded as little more than bits of paper if they get in the way of businessmen and the government, so they aren't...

Ukraine: More on Holodomor

  1 December 2006

Petro of Petro's Jotter writes more on the Ukrainian Famine and his correspondence on the subject with the editor of a Kyiv expat publication.

Ukraine: The Kyiv Beet is Back

  1 December 2006

“Ukraine Seeks to Join EU, NATO, G8, NBA, NASCAR, FIFA, Etc.” – this is just one of the headlines in the Kyiv Beet, an Onion-like Ukrainian publication, writes Ukraine List.

Ukraine: No Borat

  1 December 2006

“The glorious expat community in Kyiv is wearing their sad faces,” writes Carpetblogger: neither pirated, nor licensed Borat DVDs are to be found in Ukraine's capital.