Stories about Ukraine from November, 2007
Ukraine, Georgia: Presidents vs the Opposition
Mark MacKinnon compares Mikhail Saakashvili's policies to those of Victor Yushchenko: “The people still own the streets in Ukraine, for better and for worse. That's no longer so in Georgia.”
Ukraine: Crimean Tatars and the Land Conflict
Ukrainiana writes about the Crimean Tatars and the deepening land conflict in Crimea.
Ukraine: The Case Against mp3.ua
Ukrainian Musical Matters writes about the attempts of “policing intellectual property laws online” currently being made in Ukraine.
Ukraine: Politics and Rock Music
In Ukraine, according to Ukrainian Musical Matters, “politics and rock music have become entwined.”
Ukraine, Canada: Robert Magosci
Taras Kuzio writes about a Canadian-Ukrainian historian Robert Magocsi: “Professor Magocsi pioneered the integration of Ukrainian history into the European mainstream by presenting history as an inclusive, territorial concept. As with British history that incorporates Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Normans, and others so Ukrainian history, Professor Magocsi believes, should focus primarily...
Ukraine: Human Trafficking
Orange Ukraine writes about human trafficking out of Ukraine.
Ukraine: Borys Penchuk vs Yuri Lutsenko?
An update on Ukraine's murky politics from Foreign Notes: could it be that one of president Yushchenko's closest allies and one of his fiercest opponents are using an editor of a book on the Donetsk Mafia “to blacken Yuri Lutsenko and prevent him from gaining the powerful ‘sylovyk’ position of...
Czech Republic: “Foreigners Smell”
“Foreigners smell” – or so it seems to the Czech employees of Foxconn IT company in Pardubice, The Czech Daily Word reports.
Former Soviet Union: Migration Syllabus
J. Otto Pohl shares a syllabus for a Migration and Borders class that he will be teaching at American University of Central Asia in Spring 2008. Topics covered include the 1943 deportation of the Kalmyks, the expulsion of the Germans from Czechoslovakia at the end of WWII, and the 1944...
