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As a 9-year-old, all that you really dream about during a school year is a summer holiday. I was exactly that age in 1991, when the Soviet Union fell apart.
Aug 19, 2011 at 01:04 | Yuliya Popova
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One famous film quote says that men are like parking spaces: The good ones are already taken and the rest are too small. Feb 2 at 22:39 | Yuliya Popova |
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A two-act ballet performance lasts at least two hours. A documentary is usually half that length. Sep 23, 2011 at 01:57 | Yuliya Popova |
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I attended a wedding in London last week. Meeting the bride’s father, Oleksandr, on the plane, I thought we would share a happy chat about his Ukrainian daughter getting married. Nov 12, 2010 at 00:07 | Yuliya Popova |
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Consulates in Ukraine are amazing places to meet people with twisted stories. As queuing for a visa may take hours, you are bound to eavesdrop on some quirky lifelines. Sep 17, 2010 at 00:02 | Yuliya Popova |
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Jul 15, 2010 at 23:28 | Alexandra Matoshko
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Saint Andrew’s Descent, a quirky winding hill where artisans sell paintings and embroidery in Kyiv, is often compared to Parisian Montmartre. Sharing crooked cobbled streets, history-strewn architecture and amazing vistas, they are charming time capsules. Jul 1, 2010 at 22:43 | Yuliya Popova |
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Ever wondered why there are so many student backpackers from North America or Western Europe crisscrossing the world compared to very few Slavs? I always thought it was a question of money and visas. I was wrong. It’s not so much the capability, as the attitude and ethnic background that determines our life journey. Jun 17, 2010 at 21:44 | Yuliya Popova |
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An American writer once said that good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and makes it just as hard to sleep afterwards. If that were true for Ukraine, we would have to drink gallons of coffee to compensate for a diet with a deficit of communication. Ukrainians, for the most part, are reserved and tight-lipped during a first encounter. Jun 3, 2010 at 22:54 | Yuliya Popova |
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One way to study a country’s history is by its graves. Spending 12 hours on the road last weekend, I had plenty of opportunities to observe changing landscapes, architecture and cemeteries. May 13, 2010 at 20:53 | Yuliya Popova |
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Ukrainians seem rather monotonous when it comes to giving names to children. Every other person you meet is bound to be Lena, Katya, Dima or Andriy. The repetitiveness of Eastern European names even caused the name Natasha to become a synonym for prostitute in Turkey. May 7, 2010 at 00:10 | Yuliya Popova |