tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769894085622410822026-06-09T02:43:20.065-04:00All Things Related To UkraineUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776989408562241082.post-39045656001729605122009-01-26T01:07:00.004-05:002009-03-31T00:04:43.172-04:00

I have recently heard that Gorbachev's original family name was Horbach and that they are Ukrainian. Apprently, the -ov was added during Stalin's big name-change operation, when all Muslim lastnames in the Soviet Union and many Ukrainian lastnames were changed in such a fashion on Stalin's orders. A Ukrainian member of the British Parliament, Stefan Terlezki, has also claimed in his book "From

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If you have a Facebook account, join our Ukraine page:Ukraine Fan Pagehttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Ukraine/40677685682

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The question of Holodomor keeps being raised, again and again. One of the most frequent attempts to lessen the severity of the genocide is by arguing for a lower number of people who died from the Famine. Frequently it is stated that less than 3 million died from Holodomor in Ukraine. .ExternalClass .EC_hmmessage P {padding:0px;} .ExternalClass body.EC_hmmessage {font-size:10pt;

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Interestingly enough, according to the latest Gallup article, according to their polls taken in 2006-2008, most Ukrainians approve of the performance of Russian leadership.I am not sure how the questions are phrased, but Ukrainians are one of the most supportive countries in the world with 59% approval, except for Serbia, with 63% approval.And since Ukraine's leadership has mostly shielded the

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Putins Puppenkiste (with Russian subtitles)

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The dispute is entirely political. Russia is loosing more money by not sending gas than they were trying to squeeze out of Ukraine. Russian gas storages are full, so they will soon have to start burning their gas because they have nowhere to put it. The purpose of this gas war with Ukraine is the same as the purpose of the hot war with Georgia - to prevent the European integration of either

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As this Romanian member of Yahoo Ukraine list has pointed out and Romanian media has publicized, the Gazprom subsidiary in Moldova was stealing gas coming in from Ukraine that was intended for delivery further downstream, to Romania and Bulgaria. And then Gazprom accused Ukraine of stealing Russian gas!This has a Russian signature all over it. Just like the attempts by the Russian security

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"With its economy in deep trouble, Ukraine has little to lose by using its control of European fuel shipments to resist Russia's demand for a price increase. By contrast, Russia is suffering huge losses in immediate gas revenue and enormous damage to its reputation as an energy partner seeking European investment. Yet political considerations seem to have prevented the Kremlin from surrendering.

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A Ukrainian news item on a Johns Hopkins lecture on the influence of diasporas on their home countries of Ukraine, Moldova and Albania.The US-Ukraine Foundation (http://www.usukraine.org/) took part in the event.У Вашингтоні говорили про вплив діаспор на життя своїх країн

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I thought this was a fascinating article. Fascinating because it reveals so much about how the Russian leadership thinks. Much like some Americans who don't know much about the history try to compare Ukraine to Texas, a Russian "intellectual" Igor Panarin, who is taken seriously by the KGB and the Russian government, believes that the United States is just like the Soviet Union and will fall

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The two interesting things from these articles are:1. Ukraine has enough gas stored to last for 3 months this time - all the way until April.2. 60% of Russia's federal budget comes from oil and gas taxes! This is a third-world country's level of dependence on energy.INTERNATIONAL / EUROPE January 02, 2009Russia Cuts Off Gas Deliveries to Ukraine By ANDREW E. KRAMERThe Russian energy giant Gazprom

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Russia's refusal to heed Yushchenko's call for a mutual recognition of the famine as genocide says a lot about the rehabilitation of Stalinism under Putin. Russia supported calls five years ago by President Leonid Kuchma to recognize the famine as genocide. Ukraine's position on Soviet crimes has, therefore, not changed. Under Putin, Russia has moved from condemnation to celebration of Stalinism

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http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/32149Russia's response to crisis: Crackdown17 December, 21:12 James Marson, Kyiv Post, Staff Writer APPolice officers in St. Petersburg,Russia, detain a demonstrator during apeaceful anti-Kremlin protest on Dec.14. Police broke up a similaropposition rally that day in Moscow Use of force is preferred method against protesters in Moscow and St. PetersburgMOSCOW – In

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Ukraine needs to seriously look into its own vulnerabilities to Russian intelligence penetration, which are considerably greater than those of Estonia.The SBU has been successful in some areas, such as preventing the hiring of any Ukrainians to fight against Russians in Georgia, which the Russian secret services put no small effort into doing in the run-up to the Georgian war. The goal was

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It seems like every year at least one building in Ukraine blows up because of gas leakage.When I lived in Kyiv, there was a building not far from where I lived that had a gas explosion. It's always a horrifying sight. http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BO04R20081225Ukraine blast flattens apartment block, kills 19Thu Dec 25, 2008 9:26am EST YEVPATORIA, Ukraine (Reuters) - An

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Latvia demands that their large Russian minority learn the Latvian language. Ukraine has chosen a slower, more evolutionary path in conversion to Ukrainian language.

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An interesting article from a respected American management consulting newsletter McKinsey Quarterly. The basic point is that it was not foreign investment or state capitalism that accounts for most of China's spectacular economic rise - but homegrown entrepreneurship. Ukraine can and should learn from China's experience.Entrepreneurial capitalism, unlike state-led capitalism, not only generated

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Finally, they got some sense...INTERNATIONAL / EUROPE December 11, 2008Ukraine's Leaders Reach Accord on New Coalition By CLIFFORD J. LEVYAfter months of political discord, Ukraine's pro-Western leaders announced that they had patched up their differences and would not call new elections.

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An interesting perspective from the Ukrainian Center for Independent Political Research (UCIPR):As long ago as the adoption of the NATO-Ukraine Action Plan in 2002, officials and experts noted that by its essence, the document is the Membership Action Plan. Then Secretary of the NSDC Yevhen Marchuk stated, "By its gist, the Action Plan is de facto the Membership Action Plan. It incorporates

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The new Obama administration needs to realize Russia has a potential stranglehold on America's European allies and will play its energy card when it wants to: to block the further expansion of NATO, for example, or the EU. Russia's next likely move, which could be delayed until the global economy starts picking up again, will be an attempt to orchestrate a global natural gas cartel patterned on

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Ukrainian R&B by Vova zi Lvova

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Russia is rotting from the inside - morally and demographically. It may be strong enough to kick around weak neighbors, but that's about it.Its population is increasingly falling into alcoholism, even among women now, with the resulting early death rates. Russians are literally drinking themselves to death. (The Russian government is now relying on alcohol excise tax receipts to take them through

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An excerpt from a Washington Post article: .ExternalClass .EC_hmmessage P {padding:0px;} .ExternalClass body.EC_hmmessage {font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;} "But few debate that Russians are unwilling to properly honor the victims of Soviet-era purges, reconsider the dark pages of the country's history and acknowledge that the Soviet regime was guilty of grave crimes. Critics say that

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Факт є фактом, через пропаганду чи ні, але більшість росіян вороже налаштовані до України. Справа в тому, що більшість українців самі себе не поважають, а росіяни про справжню Україну майже нічого не знають, бо українці їм нічого ніколи про це не говорять. Чи то через побоювання згубити друзів, чи через зневагу до самих себе.Я свої справжні думки про Росію від росіян не приховую. Реакція буває

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The demographic data from the Soviet Union can only suggest the lowest number. Going by the Soviet data, the lowest possible number is 5 million dead. And we know the Soviets had reason to inflate post-Holodomor numbers, so the number is likely higher. Besides that, Ukraine had one of the highest birth rates in Europe in the 20th century, so between the dates of the Censuses, the population

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