Museums of Eastern European Heritag... Jun 28, 2008
The museum's focus includes Ukrainian folk art, Cossack history, Ukrainian cartographic history, 20th century Ukrainian history, and Ukrainian paintings and sculpture. Ukrainian folk dress and fine art make up the museum's permanent collections. (Suite101.com)
Yushchenko gets hero's welcome in Toronto Jun 1, 2008
In Toronto yesterday, Yushchenko, a Ukrainian history and culture buff, visited a Royal Ontario Museum exhibit, slated to open in the fall, featuring the country's ancient Trypillian culture. Earlier, he awarded Toronto writer Marsha Skrypuch the Order of Princess Olha, the highest Ukrainian honour for citizens of foreign countries, for her writing on the famine. (Toronto Star)
* Ukrainians lay on the lute May 16, 2008
Its because of their association with aspects of Ukrainian history and religious elements that bandurists and kobzari were systematically persecuted by authorities that once occupied the region, especially during Stalins purges of the 1930s. Performance notes. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Solzhenitsyn's curious change of heart Apr 10, 2008
SERHII PLOKHIICambridgeThe writer is Mykhailo Hrushevsky professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University. Copyright 2008 Globe Newspaper Company. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
Ex-Ukrainian Partisans Mark Anniversary Oct 15, 2007
The question of how to treat the nationalists in Ukrainian history as freedom fighters or traitors has polarized Ukraine. The west of the country supports them, while in the Russian-speaking east, support for the Soviet fighters is stronger. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Kremlin threatens to cut off Ukraine's gas again this winter Oct 5, 2007
You need to learn something about Ukrainians and Ukrainian history before you say things like, "Ukraine is a country that should have never existed." If you ask those in England during the Revolutionary War, America probably shouldn't have existed either. Michelle, Kyiv, Ukraine. (Yahoo News -- Russia)
Interview transcript Jun 12, 2007
The main thing is that all Ukrainian politicians have managed to settle probably one of the most complicated political crises ever in Ukrainian history, in a democratic way. I think this is the main victory. (Globe and Mail)
Better late than never May 31, 2007
Some Ukrainians were sniffy about the book, including the one who reviewed it in the Guardian back in March 2005 and found it a "banal tale" that crossed a "school textbook on Ukrainian history with ... an episode of Coronation Street.". "It has taken me a while to understand why he hated it so much," says Lewycka, "but I think I do understand now. I've met a lot of Ukrainians since then. Before I wrote it, I didn't know many Ukrainian Ukrainians. I knew a lot of Ukrainians who lived over here,... (Guardian Unlimited)
Party defector denies he precipitated political crisis (David R. Sands) Apr 14, 2007
The Orange Revolution "was a unique event in Ukrainian history, one in which the whole nation mobilized to protect its right to honest government and fair elections," he said. "A revolution is an interesting thing, but then one still has to pass the test of power, to prove that one can govern." He said he complained to Mr. Yushchenko that the political infighting in Kiev the past two years had prevented action on a number of national priorities, from strengthening the country's judiciary and... (Washington Times)
Anti-Soviet Fighters Rally in Ukraine Oct 15, 2006
Western-leaning Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Saturday praised the guerrillas for fighting for Ukraine's independence, but the issue of how to recognize the nationalists in Ukrainian history - as freedom fighters or traitors - has polarized Ukraine. The divisions were apparent at Saturday's rally, as some of the 2,000 nationalists briefly scuffled with socialists holding a counter-rally. (ABC 7 News, DC)
[William Pfaff]Ukraine does what it must to survive Aug 15, 2006
This has been a recurrent experience in Ukrainian history and has been a significant factor in present-day Ukraine. The Bush administration promoted the Orange Revolution and has been trying to get Ukraine into NATO, militarily breaking it away from modern Russia. (Korea Herald, Korea)
So You Say You Want a Revolution Jul 28, 2006
By all the standards of Ukrainian history, that would be a wonderful fate. Anatol Lieven is a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation. (St.Petersburg Times.ru)
