Stories about Ukraine from December, 2007
Ukraine: Lavra and Castle Paintings
Olechko posts two of her recent paintings of Ukrainian architectural landmarks.
Ukraine: Immature Politicians
Foreign Notes compares the new Ukrainian parliament to high school – here and here.
Ukraine: Yatsenyuk's Promise
Yulia Tymoshenko got 225 votes instead of the needed 226 to become Ukraine's PM today, and Ukrainiana wonders if Arseniy Yatsenyuk is ready to deliver on his promise to resign as speaker due to that: “Yatsenyuk got the job only as a condition of the Orange Coalition agreement between BYuT...
Ukraine: Bryan Adams, Enrique Iglesias, Michael Jackson
Ukraine Musical Matters reports on the recent Kyiv concerts of Enrique Iglesias and Bryan Adams and Michael Jackson's upcoming visit.
Ukraine: Coal Miners’ Video
Ukrainiana posts and translates “a video of real people who tell us how the smell of profits sucks the safety out of the Ukrainian mining industry.”
Ukraine: “Hitler Infantilization”
Ukrainiana writes about a scandal over teaching methods used at a private school attended by president Yushchenko’s two daughters.
Ukraine: “Unsung Heroes”
Orange Ukraine writes on various sources of aid to Ukraine, individual and institutional.
Ukraine: PM Bribery Video
Ukrainiana posts one of the four videos released by Yulia Tymoshenko's Bloc, in which “an Orange MP” is allegedly offered to be paid in return for his switching to the opponents’ side (translated transcript provided): “There’s your capital — this one thing, the voting card. You have no other capital.”
Ukraine: Arseniy Yatseniuk
Foreign Notes writes about Ukraine's newly-elected 33-year-old parliament speaker – Arseniy Yatseniuk.
Ukraine: Airbus for the President
Foreign Notes writes about Victor Yushchenko's plans to acquire “a brand-new Airbus A319 presidential airplane priced $40-$60 million, even though only about half that sum had been ear-marked for upgrading the president's flight.”
