Maria Sonevytsky of My Simferopol Home announces the upcoming exhibition of the “No Other Home: The Crimean Tatars” project in Bucharest, Romania, in mid-December, and links to a related story on Crimean Tatars, complete with photos and audio, published in the online magazine Triple Canopy.
Some background and a translation of an Izvestiya piece on Ukraine's Ruthenians - at Robert Amsterdam's blog.
Taras Kuzio analyzes “the achievements and failures and unfulfilled expectations of the last four years” in Ukraine - here and here, and also writes that president Yushchenko “had over-focused on the issue [of Holodomor] to the detriment of contemporary political and economic concerns.”
The Ivanov Report writes about last week's 10th Congress of the ruling United Russia party: “The victors have suddenly realized that as the ‘leading political force of the country', it's their job to deal with the crisis and face its inevitably negative political and social consequences.” Taras Kuzio reports that president Victor Yushchenko has been elected head of Our Ukraine party: “This is like deciding to jump from dry land on to the sinking Titanic.”
A note on the difference between “orange revolution” and “Orange Revolution” in Ukraine - at Leopolis: “The former represents the current state of politics: disappointment, disillusionment, distrust, financial crisis, brawls in parliament, corruption, broken promises. There is no reason to celebrate the ‘orange revolution.' But the latter recalls an amorphous historical, emotional and spiritual point in space that has passed. It can only be recalled through memory or via the end product of the photographer's eye.
Window on Eurasia writes: “Kyiv’s efforts to call attention to Stalin’s terror famine on the 75th anniversary of that tragedy and especially its moves to gain international recognition of it as a genocide against the Ukrainian people has generated much criticism by Russian officials from President Dmitry Medvedev on down as well as from numerous Moscow commentators.
A whole month of posts and photos featuring street children in Ukraine - at Scenes From the Sidewalk.
A definition of a derogatory Russian word for “Americans” - at Eternal Remont; a usage context example - at Russian Navy Blog.
Finrosforum accounts for President Medvedev's view of Holodomor - the great famine in Ukraine 1932-33 - accusing those who speak about the “so-called Holodomor” of creating a rift between the two Slavic nations.
Ukrainiana reports that Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the notorious vice speaker of the Russian Duma, supports Barack Obama.
Moscow Rules praises Mykhaylo Petechuk's text on Ukraine's economic situation posted on Mmd Russia Blog. Petechuk writes: “But we are skeptical about the real impact the IMF can have on three people who are competing with each other for the position of President in upcoming Presidential elections and a political class which is utterly self-obsessed. There is, therefore, every chance that Ukraine will bungle this tight window of opportunity the IMF offers and bring down upon itself total economic chaos, Russia 1998-style. We put this risk at 35% and rising every day.”
Russian Navy Blog posts updates - here and here - on the capture of the MV Faina cargo ship by Somali pirates. At the time of the capture, the ship's crew consisted of 17 Ukrainian citizens, three Russian citizens and one citizen of Latvia; the ship's Russian captain died from a stroke on Sept. 28.
Russia Blog shares a joke about “a lawyer and a Ukrainian.”
Pictures of Kyiv's churches - at Nash Holos.
Ukrainiana reports that while Ukrainian legislators are busy fighting, “the asking price for the U.S. dollar reached Hr. 7.0942, up from Hr. 6 last Friday” - and up from Hr. 4.7 in mid-September.
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