Word: ukrainians
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...Even more enlightening his reporting on the experiences of young African players on the margins of European football in his chapter on the "Black Carpathians." Here, he tracks the story of Edward Anyamkyegh, a Nigerian starlet playing at Karpaty Lviv, a Ukrainian team with a fiercely nationalist tradition. In the Soviet era, the Ukraine was recognized as the cradle of the Union's soccer talent, regularly supplying a majority of the national team's players. But despite its tradition of representing Ukrainian pride (particularly against Russian teams during the Soviet era), the accepted wisdom in independent Ukraine is that soccer...
...South African from the sunshine of newly liberated Soweto, such as MacBeth Sibaya or Japhet Zwane, it can't be much fun emigrating to the icy wastes of Russia's rundown industrial cities brimming with angry, racist skinheads. But there's more than money to compensate: the Russian and Ukrainian teams play in the pan-European tournaments, offering their imports a platform on which to impress the scouts of clubs in Italy, Spain and Britain, who'll offer a better wage and more benign living conditions. Today's estimates are that around 1,000 African players earn their keep...
...officials have yet to agree on a date: should Chávez be recalled before Aug. 19, new elections will be held. A recall after that date would hand power to Chávez's deputy until 2006. Lost Leader U.S. A district court in California convicted former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko of 29 counts of money laundering and extortion. Lazarenko, who served as Prime Minister from 1996 to 1997, faces up to five years in jail. He says he'll appeal the decision...
...Sunni Triangle. But the outbreak of hostilities in the southern cities has put troops from Italy, Spain, El Salvador, Poland, Ukraine and Bulgaria on the front lines. The Bulgarian government called on Wednesday for U.S. reinforcements to help its 450 soldiers under fire in Karbala, while the Ukrainian contingent at Kut was chased out of town by angry Shiites who took over their base. And the Iraqi security forces on which the U.S. hopes to rely increasingly have offered little cause for comfort - mostly, the Iraqi police simply melted away when the Sadrists arrived to take over their facilities...
...third version he had offered. In the first account, he said he'd gone for a rest in Kiev. The next day he'd told a confused story of constant surveillance by the FSB, the state security agency, and growing concern for his safety while in the Ukrainian capital. Now - presumably free to speak the truth, although his wife and family remain in Russia - he explained that it had all started late in January. Rybkin's election platform, published that month, made peace in Chechnya his top priority (he was involved in negotiations to end the first Chechen...