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Spelunking on the Steppe, and on the Peninsula

“One thing about caving is clear,” says Oleg Klimchuk of Kyiv. “Caves have almost no limits; rather, they just continue. There’s nothing routine about …
Paul Miazga

Skulking Around Bunkers in the Old Stalin Line

Around this time of year in 1941, and just 20 days after Hitler unleashed the full fury of Operation Barbarossa on the Soviet Union, advance troops …
Paul Miazga

7 Days

ill be shown, from renowned directors Rene Claire and Jean Renoir. The two directors are historical figures in French and world cinema – Claire added …
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Nickel and Dimed to Death

It really should come as no surprise that restaurants the world over will try to charge their customers for little things like mayonnaise, Tabasco …
Paul Miazga

Kay Wollrab of the Goethe Institute Reconstruction Project

Germany. Time served? I’ve been in Kyiv since 2003 on a permanent basis. My first visit to Ukraine was in 1998, though. For quite a while I used to …
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Portrait Artist Christine Rodriguez of Ecuador

Ecuadorian artist Christine Rodriguez certainly has quite the body of work for an artist who only just started to paint. I flip through an album of …
Paul Miazga

When All Alone at Persona, You Can Be the Piano Man

Persona, there on Lvivska Square, is a two-storey affair, as I found out when I called  to make a reservation. What’s on the second floor? I wanted to …
Ryan Grotte

Showdown expected in parliament over WTO laws

President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on June 29 stepped up pressure on parliamentary leaders to pass laws required for …
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Gongadze’s alleged killer in Israel?

The man who allegedly executed journalist Georgy Gongadze has been found in Israel, according to unnamed Israeli officials quoted by Ukrainian and …
Peter Byrne

Ukraine inks new gas deal with Turkmen

Ukraine struck a new natural gas supply deal with Turkmenistan on June 24 that promises to bring less expensive fuel to the country in a more …
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Tax Relief

d reinstate the simplified tax regime. In March, the furor over the cancellation of that regime – under which employees, through legally dubious …
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A vast conspiracy

publication Korrespondent, along with a host of other publications, to a blacklist of “media and organizations who distribute and defend or support …
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Picking up the trash

possession, a duty.” – John D. Rockefeller It takes only a few minutes walking down Khreshchatyk after a weekend of festivities and general …
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U.S. still world’s biggest jailer, Ukraine near tops in Europe

il, ahead of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, according to figures released Monday by British academics. The International Centre for Prison Studies at …
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Polish leaders disappointed at not being asked to Russian anniversary

n Monday that Russia didn’t invite any of the country’s leaders to July celebrations marking the 750th anniversary of the founding of Kaliningrad. It …
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Report: Court sentences pilots in 2002 air show crash to jail time

LVIV (AP) – A military appeals court in western Ukraine sentenced the pilots whose plane plowed into a crowd at a 2002 air show to at least eight …
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Ukrainians, Poles reopen Polish military cemetery amid political turmoil

LVIV (AP) – Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and his Polish counterpart Aleksander Kwasniewski presided June 24 over solemn ceremonies to …
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NATO to launch project to decommission Ukrainian rocket fuel, ammunition

(AP) – NATO will launch a multimillion-dollar pilot project to decommission vast quantities of obsolete missile fuel, ammunition and small arms in …
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