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In this first weblog entry for the Kyiv Post, an imaginary conversation takes place between Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, American beat writer Jack Kerouac and Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. The topic of their conversation is modern day Ukraine. The three are sitting at the base of the Oles Honchar statue in Kyiv drinking street beers (no product placement entered here)...
Yesterday at 18:12 | Rachkevych Mark
Hard work in hard times
The first International Forum on the Economic Development of Ukraine gathered at the Newseum, the internationally known museum of news, in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 15. The event was held in conjunction with the second bilateral trade and investment relations meeting between the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) on Oct. 14.
October 16 at 16:13 | Melnyk Yuliya
Ukrainian festival in Washington, D.C. area promotes Ukrainian culture in the U.S.A.
The Seventh Washington Ukrainian Festival combined with unusually warm weather for this time of the year to attract many U.S. visitors to Silver Spring, Maryland, on Sept. 19-20.
September 21 at 13:11 | Melnyk Yuliya
Kremlin-loyal media make Merkel sing to Medvedev’s tune
Kremlin-backed media will do anything to promote anti-Ukrainian sentiment, even twist another country’s leader’s statements, writes Yuriy Lukanov.
August 20 at 19:20 | Lukanov Yuriy
Appearance, reality conflict on streets and in minds of post-Soviet Ukrainians
Yuriy Lukanov asks: Why do leaders cling to Soviet myths, such as working ‘hero’ Stakhanov?
August 06 at 20:50 | Lukanov Yuriy
A ‘hospitable’ host in another’s kitchen
In a time of Facebook, citizen journalists, enormous numbers of international social websites and the new ‘reset’ with Russia, Americans still remember the Nixon-Khrushchev “kitchen debate” during the 1959 U.S. exhibition in Moscow.
July 27 at 13:41 | Melnyk Yuliya
Pukach's arrest looks like pre-election Yushchenko ploy
The July 21 arrest of ex-Interior Ministry general Oleksiy Pukach, a suspect in the 2000 murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze, came on the same weekend that President Victor Yushchenko declared his re-election bid for the Jan. 17, 2010, presidential election. Were these two events merely coincidences or a bizarre attempt to rekindle Yushchenko’s popularity above its paltry 2-3 percent?
July 24 at 15:08 | Kuzio Taras
Is arrest of Gongadze’s alleged killer late justice or political game?
Yuriy Lukanov writes, that he still doesn’t understand why Gongadze was murdered
July 23 at 23:04 | Lukanov Yuriy
Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live forever?
Yuriy Lukanov cannot hide his amusement over the recent vandalism of the monument to Vladimir Lenin on Taras Shevchenko Boulevard.
July 16 at 19:37 | Lukanov Yuriy
Non-stop nuclear nonsense
The recent Russia-U.S. summit bore the first strategic arms reduction movement in seven years. This was duly dangled before the world’s eyes as an achievement, something to sing and dance about; Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama gazing out into a new world – as Shaun Walker, for the Independent dubbed it, a “post-Cold War world.”
July 14 at 14:03 | Sylvester Roland