http://eng.maidanua.org/node/1010

The impact of the information age is overestimated. Hollywood's charm remains seductive and all-pervasive. We need feel-good pills, and heroes and villains to avoid problems with meaning. Heinous villains and noble heroes so as to not inadvertently muddle them, and to avoid uncomfortable questions about what we would do. Most importantly, if necessary, we can change channels.

"The Edgewood plaque unveiling [October 24] is a continuation of what UCCLA began many years ago. We’re determined to finish off what started, we owe that to all of the internees, Ukrainians and non-Ukrainians alike, whose story might otherwise have been completely forgotten if we had not acted when we did."

http://www.bclocalnews.com
/kootenay_rockies/arrowlakesnews/news/64884312.html

October 21, 2009
Keith Powell

http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=35489&tx_ttnews[backPid]
=7&cHash=be493e0d53
September 14, 2009

Roman Kupchinsky

Coal mining, and especially coking coal, has been a very problematic industry in Ukraine - it is highly inefficient due to outdated machinery and the depth of its mines.

http://www.day.kiev.ua/280776/

Chervona Ruta 09

Kyiv folk-pop Soloma Group wins Grand Prix for the third time in the festival's 20-year history

 

By Masha TOMAK, The Day

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/11/russia-ukraine-control-election
11 October 2009

[...]

Last month, a group of east European leaders and intellectuals gathered in the Livadia Palace, where Britain, the US and the Soviet Union held the Yalta conference in February 1945. The idea was to discuss Ukraine's strategic future.

http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/49876
1 October, 2009

|Kateryna Grushenko, Kyiv Post
AP

A woman wears a face mask, as a precaution against swine flu

Ukraine has only had two confirmed cases of swine flu so far, but experts warn that flu cannot be stopped by national borders.

The H1N1 virus epidemic spreading across the globe. Having claimed more than 4, 200 lives already, the virus may be on its way to Ukraine.

Concerning the recent editorial by Taras Kuzio (Canadian academic experts on Ukraine and NATO, ePOSHTA Oct.18) suggesting that I am an opponent of Ukraine joining the NATO alliance:

The role of an academic is to report and analyze what one reads and sees, not to be an advocate of a particular position or personality. Once an academic begins to take sides or support particular courses of action, then he/she is no longer an academic.

http://www.rferl.org/content/Western_Ukraine_Could_Decide_Presidential_Election_Outcome
/1855617.html
October 19, 2009

Taras Kuzio

Although elected to parliament in the NU-NS bloc, Yatsenyuk has de facto ditched key elements in its platform, such as abolishing parliamentary immunity; legal recognition of Ukrainian nationalist partisans who fought against the Nazis and Soviets in the 1940s; NATO membership; and energy independence (Yatsenyuk supports a gas consortium with Russia).

October 21, 2009

Ukraine's 2010 Election Watch

Serhiy Kudelia

Ukraine's former Defense Minister Anatoliy Grytsenko announced the official beginning of his campaign today, after submitting his documents to the Central Election Commission. He compared himself to a private, who volunteered to go to war. Grytsenko's war is the battle against «the state ruled by corrupt officials, criminals and scoundrels».

Myroslav Petriw

Rather than commenting on matters pertaining to Ukraine myself, today I think I will let Ukraine's President, Victor Yushchenko do all the talking. Very recently, - on September 30th, in fact, President Yushchenko held an outdoor press conference in Kyiv. I think that forever more it will become known as the Green Clearing press conference, or the "прес-конференція на зеленій галявині".

The following Members of Parliament have signed the appeal to allow Mikhail Lennikov the failed refugee applicant now seeking sanctuary in an East Vancouver church in defiance of a deportation order over his past employment by the KGB. Something to keep in mind at election time.

To all supporters of M. Lennikov. Just a few words from someone who knew this guy personally in the 80s. He was a very active Komsomol leader of the Oriental Faculty of Far East University in Vladivostok where he studied the Japanese language in late 70s early 80s. No wonder he was invited to join KGB as an officer upon his graduation from the Uni. His representations that he was made to join the service is absolute nonsense, any Russian would confirm you that.