Word: kiev
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Hartje will become the first North American--Canadian or U.S. citizen--ever to play hockey professionally in the Soviet Union. The Anoka, Minn. native will skate for Sokol-Kiev in the Soviet Elite League for the Ukrainian team's 1990-91 season...
...idea--I didn't find out about [Sokol-Kiev] until before Spring Break," Hartje said. "I thought [Smith] was kidding at first, but he was serious, and I'm going...
...unrepentantly spends part of the money to distribute neo-Nazi propaganda. Or that the monument the Soviets reluctantly built at Babi Yar is actually half a mile away from the ravine where thousands of Jews were slaughtered, and that in the process of building the monument the Soviets bulldozed Kiev's main Jewish cemetery...
...contaminated regions. His mission: to document the world's worst nuclear-plant catastrophe. "People have the right to know," says Kostin, who devotes a third of his time to covering Chernobyl's aftermath. "The technology of atomic energy is not perfect. This could happen anywhere." Kostin lives in Kiev, 100 km (62 miles) from Chernobyl, and was a successful construction engineer before turning photographer at age 36. His trips to Chernobyl and its environs have deeply disturbed him. The children he saw haunt him the most. "They are the ones who became innocent victims of our so-called civilization...
Batu charged onward to conquer Poland and Hungary, and it was probably only the death in 1242 of Batu's uncle, the Great Khan Ugedey (he was apparently - poisoned by a jealous woman in his entourage), that saved Western Europe from the fate of Kiev. Batu decided to retrench and consolidate his rule over the khanate of the Golden Horde. Spread thin though they were, the Mongols of the Golden Horde ruled Russia for more than two centuries, and it was a harsh rule. Mongol tax collectors beggared the peasantry, and occupied Russia remained completely isolated from what the West...