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Ex-pat caught in backyard land controversy

a development company rumored to be allied to one of Ukraine’s major banks. Trouble began in December when machines from a company called D.I.A. …
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Q&A: Dmytro Potekhin

Even amid all the media speculation about “revolution templates” last fall, few reported what pro-democracy activists were actually doing to set the …
Peter Byrne

Science and solitude define life for Ukraine’s Antarctic contingent

“In an Antarctic expedition, human relationships are everything,” says Mykola Leonov, 59, a member of the Ukrainian Third Antarctic Expedition in …
Yulianna Vilkos

Q&A: Contemporary Kyiv’s fiery critic

of Kyiv’s City Planning Board. Founder of the Club for Esthetic Disobedience, she has emerged as the preeminent critic of development in Kyiv in the …
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High anxiety

up in Ukraine. That’s exactly what they’re getting. Yushchenko’s activist government is upsetting one card table after another, to what appears to be …
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Not again, please

e back Ukrainians’ stolen assets, he should be keeping his eye on the smaller stuff. For example, a controversy has developed between city dwellers …
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Common sense says get rid of parliamentary immunity

rty, said he opposes immunity for parliament deputies and the president, and would initiate a referendum to do away with it. If there ever was an idea …
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Letters to the editor

livka: As a subscriber to Kyiv Post over the last year, I have usually agreed with your paper’s editorial positions, and have at times shared your …
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Yakaboo.com: DVD Rentals, in Just a Click

When we did our online feature recently, we wrote that free medical advice and sushi are about all you can get online in Kyiv. Well, while getting …
Paul Miazga

John Surman Jazz Concert at the Philharmonic

at least until she’s known for her music. Hot funk, hot electro-house, and remixes of Russian pop stars such as Alla Pugacheva form the bulk of …
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Goethe Institute Book Baroness Wibke Weigand

t the right winter-time temperature. “It feels much better than the summer heat,” she says over lunch at Baboon, just down the street from the …
Olga Chala

Chicken Kiev, At Home, Splash Guard at the Ready

When I was eight, melted butter burst from inside a Chicken Kiev cutlet and made a huge stain on my favorite silk dress. For a while, I hated the the …
Viktoria Barchenko

Finally, Some Normal Kyiv Restaurants

of Kyiv restaurants show off and make a scene. That’s why when diners go out to eat, they often find mermaids, dancing girls, waiters in costumes, …
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Old Baltic Bliss, without ‘Terrible Sex’

es and ears being what they are, we’re always on the look-out for different pick-me-ups. Given the randomness of the situation, the obscurity of the …
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Court annuls Kryvorizhstal deal

was illegal, a day after Ukraine’s new premier announced that the government plans a massive probe into more than 3,000 post-Soviet privatization …
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SBU launches criminal investigation into eavesdropping on Yushchenko and Tymoshenko

criminal proceedings into last year’s eavesdropping on former opposition leaders, including current President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister …
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Georgian Reds: The Caucasian Connection

s have their cognac, and Russians and Ukrainians have their ethanol – oops, sorry, vodka. Meanwhile, Georgians reign supreme over wine, no matter what …
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Diaspora yanks ‘Stalin wine’ in Canada

Bottles of a Crimean wine have been yanked from Canadian shelves after protest from Diaspora Ukrainians upset by a photograph of Josef Stalin on its …
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