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Serpent Elections
So elections are coming up in Ukraine and the one I am going to be watching is the local election on Serpent Island in the Black Sea. In an attempt to give the island a more substantial status (a democratic one), Ukraine’s Vice Premier, Aleksandr Kuzmuk, announced that there would be local elections on the […]
Posted: September 13th, 2007 under Politics, News, History, Romania.
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Ukrainians Shipwrecked in NY
This story isn’t new, in fact it is from 2005, but the radio show This American Life featured last week a radio piece on three Ukrainian immigrant punk rockers who went for a boat ride from New York City and ended up getting shipwrecked within sight of the city’s skyscrapers.
The radio piece focuses on Alex […]
Posted: February 26th, 2007 under General, News.
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The Kyiv Beet is Back
I just noticed that The Kyiv Beet is back after two years. It is basically a faux news source much like The Onion. The new issue isn’t yet archived on the original geocities site, so I will post the issue here until I locate the correct URL associated with the The Kyiv Beet. There is […]
Posted: November 29th, 2006 under Entertainment, News.
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