Word: ukrainians
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...presides over a gala honoring the 400th anniversary of the Romanov imperial dynasty, after which, naturally, the Russian Orthodox Church canonizes Lenin as "the guardian of the poor and the weak." Reality is also given an alternate course in Kurkov's 2000 satire of the modern-day Ukrainian Security Service, The Kind Angel of Death, in which a colonel complains that a lack of funding is forcing the former kgb to "use the passive help of our citizens ... Unfortunately, none of these assistants of ours ever managed to assist us without our help." Kurkov captures such absurdities of post-Soviet...
IRENE NEMIROVSKY IN 1942 A Ukrainian Jew living in France was deported to Auschwitz, where she was executed. Six decades later, her daughters discovered among the papers she left behind the manuscript of an extraordinary unfinished novel: Suite Francaise. The book consists of two parts (Nemirovsky planned three more), the first following a handful of French families of different social classes through the crashing chaos of the retreat from Paris, the second set in the hushed, simmering hell of a small town under German occupation. It's a work of Proustian scope and delicacy, by turns funny and deeply moving...
Information gathered from satellite photos suggested a hellish scene at the accident site. All evidence pointed to a nuclear reactor fire burning out of control in the gentle, rolling Ukrainian countryside ... The most frightening part of the nuclear accident was the radiation that spewed from the reactor and then was carried by winds on its silent, deadly path. At distances of perhaps 3 to 4 miles, victims stood a 50-50 chance of surviving, though not without bone-marrow and gastrointestinal-tract damage. People living 5 to 7 miles from the accident could experience nausea and other symptoms but would...
...legitimate election again, the way he did back in his first race in 1994. After all, a good portion of people will always prefer guaranteed rations and order to the messiness and uncertainty of freedom. That in many respects explains the amazing tenacity and comeback of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, who lost the Presidency in December of 2004 to reformer Viktor Yushchenko after the people revolted against a clearly fraudulent initial election in a non-violent surge of people power. In this past weekend's parliamentary elections, Yanukovych's Party of the Regions (PR) led with over...
...Accordingly, border guard patrols with police dogs inspected trains inbound from Ukraine, detaining many Ukrainian and Georgian citizens. Even allied Russian citizens were deported from Belarus, if their connection to Russian liberal parties or groups was established. Shortly before the election Belarusian and Russian TV stations showed one such terrorist who "confessed" to have been trained how to poison a city's water supply system planting a dead rat. But even many of those who had previously supported his Boss smelled the rat. "You listen to this-and you think: one of us must be an idiot," said Vasyl Koktysh...