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British Embassy Kyiv: if walls could talk
One of the striking things about Kyiv is the mixture of architectural styles across the city.
Jul 21, 2011 at 18:10 | Leigh Turner
Lviv literature
The west Ukrainian city of Lviv is an intriguing location for a literature festival. Breath-taking views of spires and domes, offset with hidden courtyards, make this city on the cusp between East and West a crossroads for cultural exchange.
Sep 26, 2011 at 11:07 | Martin Dowle
How to be a successful communist executive
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, it was nothing less than the validation over one way of life over another.
Sep 28, 2011 at 15:05 | Greg Satell
Ukraine's Femen protests at Davos forum
Ukraine's activist group shines on a global scale.
Jan 30 at 10:25 | Leo A. Krasnozhon
Inequality, poverty characterize post-Soviet states
Even though the top ten percent of the population of the post-Soviet states are wealthier than they ever were in the past, three out of every four residents of the Russian Federation are now poor, according to official statistics, with the situation being even worse in Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Azerbaijan and only a little better in Belarus.
Jun 3, 2011 at 14:15 | Paul Goble
70 years since Babi Yar the Holocaust still has a lesson to teach
On September 8th,I attended the opening of the exhibit “Shoah by Bullets: Mass shootings of Jews in Ukraine 1941–1944” at the Ukrainian House in central Kyiv.
Sep 26, 2011 at 11:25 | John F. Tefft
Celebrating International Water Day
A recent article in the New York Times made me think about the importance of water, not just to our day to day lives, but to the fates of nations and industries.
Mar 27 at 14:30 | Doug Morrow
New Times: Middle class ‘fleeing’ Russia
Members of the middle class, including both entrepreneurs and intellectuals on whom the future of democratic development in the Russian Federation depends, are now fleeting that country in ever-increasing numbers, a trend that both testifies to Russia’s current problems and casts a shadow over its future.
May 25, 2011 at 10:49 | Paul Goble
Is Siberia becoming Russia’s Catalonia?
Ever since the Olympic Games in Barcelona, the world has grown accustomed to the slogan “Catalonia is not Spain,” a St. Petersburg writer says, and uses an essay in that city’s “Nevskoye vremya” to ask “how great is the probability of hearing something similar about Siberia?”
Jun 1, 2011 at 12:18 | Paul Goble
‘Nostalgia’ for Stalin among young reflects Moscow’s failure to offer a concrete alternative vision
Young Russians increasingly deify Stalin not only because he represents a system radically different from that of Russia today but also because the contemporary Russian state has failed to offer a specific ideological alternative that is not mired in abstraction, accord to two Russian scholars.
Jun 6, 2011 at 10:54 | Paul Goble
Embassy Ukraine in full swing with the 2012 season of Summer Work and Travel
On Thursday March 1st, colleagues in the Consular section at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv hosted the second annual Summer Work and Travel (SWT) webchat.
Apr 10 at 17:31 | U.S. Embassy Kyiv
How to innovate your digital brand
Innovation is exciting, with lots of big ideas and big personalities.
Apr 4 at 13:48 | Greg Satell
Ukraine: a land of opportunity?
Will Ukraine seize the once-in-a-generation opportunity of Euro 2012 to showcase its European credentials?
Apr 5 at 12:10 | Leigh Turner
Tiny Kyiv
Jun 30, 2011 at 16:57 | Alissa Ambrose
Co-creation and the new web of things
“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.”
Apr 11 at 17:45 | Greg Satell