Stories about Ukraine from August, 2007
Ukraine: More Sketches From Lviv
Olechko is in Lviv again – and is posting her lovely sketched of the city.
Ukraine: Karpachova's Award
Foreign Notes writes about Ukraine's Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights, who has just received an award from the president that she doesn't deserve.
Russia: Tunguska Meteorite Stolen
The famous – and really huge – Tunguska meteorite has been stolen. Siberian Light writes about this and other notable metal thefts in Russia and Ukraine.
Ukraine: Update on Politics
Europhobia posts an update on the current political situation in Ukraine and calls to the EU to take action: “Ukraine is simply too important a neighbour to just sit back...
Ukraine: Money-Laundering Socialist
A prominent Socialist politician is accused of money laundering, Foreign Notes reports.
Ukraine: Tallest Man in the World
Eternal Remont writes about the tallest man in the world – who now happens to be a 37-year-old Ukrainian.
Ukraine: Lutsenko's Business Ties
Ukrainiana writes about a former Maidan leader, ex-minister of the interior Yuri Lutsenko, currently #2 in the pro-presidential bloc, and his family's alleged involvement in what appears to be a...
Ukraine: Maidan Vendors
uaMuzik writes about Kyiv mayor's attempts to get the street vendors out of Maidan.
Ukraine: Chess Champion and Border Control
uaMuzik writes about a Ukrainian chess champion who, like everyone else, had to wait in line at Kyiv's Boryspil airport on his way out of the country.
Ukraine: “Seeking the Past”
Taras Kuzio writes about his father's recent trip to Germany: a Ukrainian, he was taken there “as a Nazi slave labourer in 1942 and never to return home again until...
Ukraine: Marushchenko; RA Gallery
Olechko writes about a Ukrainian veteran photographer, his students, and a Kyiv photo gallery trying to survive financially.
Ukraine: Chernobyl Panoramas
Photographer Michael Forster Rothbart and web designer Dave Menninger have created a site of Chernobyl panoramas. Here's why.
Ukraine: Party Conferences
Foreign Notes reports: “The main political players held their party conferences last weekend. They were all very stage-managed, glitzy affairs, clearly revealing serious involvement of Western spin-doctors.”
Ukraine: Election Lists
Foreign Notes writes about a difficult process: Ukrainian politicians selecting candidates that the Ukrainian public is expected to vote for on Sept. 30.
Russia: 1937
Sean's Russia Blog writes about one of the orders that marked the beginning of Stalin's Terror.
