Ukraine List

I ran into a few images this week that I found interesting. The first one is a Soviet propaganda poster from 1930. It says, “Let’s annihilate the kulak’s class.” The image came from plakaty.ru which has a very nice collection of Russian propaganda posters.

By the way, this article written by Lynne Viola is an interesting […]

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Both English Russia and Carpetblogger recently highlighted the color photos of the Russian Empire from the early 1900s taken by the photographer, Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky. He used a technique of taking photo plates utilizing red, green, and blue filters, and by recombining these plates, a color image can be wonderfully reproduced. In his day, he used […]

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In a recent post, I noted that the Ukrainians and Romanians opened a new frontier bridge between the two countries. It was a good mark of cooperation, but one issue that had to be pushed to the background was the current dispute about Serpent Island (Острів Зміїний in Ukrainian). I usually find international boundary and […]

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I saw on the Late Show with David Letterman last week an interview with Vera Farmiga who is in the movie The Departed (Отступники), which just received five Oscar nominations. You can see the movie trailer here, and there is also an interview with Vera on iFilm that you can watch.
On Letterman, she talked about […]

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Though it has cooled a bit in Ukraine, according to this short piece from Ukrainian Radio, ten temperature records were set within fifteen days in January, and the 14th of January beat a record standing since 1921. The region had nine consecutive weeks of above-normal weather and many locations averaged 7-12 degrees C above normal.
Here […]

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In a recent post I covered the opening of a bridge between Romania and Ukraine, so I thought I would do a follow-up post on the Ukrainian town of Solotvyno, which is a well-known salt mining town. Actually, the town’s name is derived from the Ukrainian word for “salt” and salt has been in its […]

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In mid-January, the new bridge between Solotvino, Ukraine and Sighet, Romania officially opened with Victor Yushchenko and the President of Romania, Traian Basescu, on hand for the ceremony.
The original bridge over the Tysa River was built when the area belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but it was later destroyed by the Germans during World War […]

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The BRAMA website used to be a standard for Ukraine-related information — at least from a diaspora perspective, but now if you go to any link to the website, Google along with StopBadware.org will give a prominent warning that says, “Visiting this web site may harm your computer.” That’s pretty effective for me not to […]

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