Ukraine List

I know this topic isn’t all that timely with the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident ten months ago, but here is some interesting poster art that came out for the anniversary of the accident.
The first two pieces were taken from plakaty, which hosts a series of posters from various Moscow graphic designers. The […]

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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 […]

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There is a pretty funny video on English Russia. It is a recruiting ad to get people to sign up for the Ukrainian Army. All the good looking girls apparently love a man in fatigues who drives an armored vehicle.
These types of promotional ads have been in the US for decades, though the imagery is […]

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I saw this photo recently come over Flickr, and I thought it was a really great shot of Kamianets Podiliskyi. You can see the top of the fortress in the back and the Turkish bridge leading up to the fortification. The framing and perspective are beautiful, and it was taken by Alexander Kidalov. You can […]

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I have been following the film dubbing debate recently where language politics are playing out through the film industry. Essentially, the government, courts, and distributors are battling it out on how best to promote and regulate the use of Ukrainian language in films. The arguments can be quite heated at times as it brings up […]

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Well, by ’scarry’ I mean the children’s author and illustrator, Richard Scarry. I’m always interested in multi-lingual children’s books (as I have a toddler), and this adaptation of The Best Word Book Ever by Richard Scarry into Ukrainian (and French) is very interesting indeed.

Richard Scarry was a prolific children’s book author from the United States […]

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I have used a couple of photos from this photographer previously, so I thought I would post a few more photos that I liked from his sight, Blot of Light. You can access the photo blog directly from the link or use this site’s blogroll.

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I just heard a story on National Public Radio (out of the US) about Coca-Cola getting into the kvas market. If you click the link you can hear the interview with a Russian journalist talking about the modern kvas industry.
Kvas is made in many Slavic countries and the Baltic states. It is basically fermented from […]

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