Word: ivanoe
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...population are ethnic Ukrainians, the main media, printed and electronic, continue to be in Russian. Western Ukraine, the one part of the country attached, ferociously so, to the Ukrainian language, has developed a reputation for extremist nationalism. Controversial and well-publicized decisions - last week, for example, the city of Ivano-Frankivsk recognized veterans of the SS Galicia Division as combatants for the freedom and independence of Ukraine - help maintain this image. And while the Crimean peninsula's 278,000-strong Muslim Tatar population is viewed by the government in Kyiv as "peaceable vegetable growers," as Popovich puts it, strange things...
...lecturers reported that on January 12-13 the KGB, the Soviet security police, arrested nineteen Ukrainian intellectuals in Kiev. Lviv and Ivano-Frankivs'k and conducted searches in many more homes throughout the Ukraine...
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