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...headed for the country's Constitutional Court. In almost theatrical fashion, the man standing to benefit from it all is Yushchenko's nemesis, Victor Yanukovych, the man defeated in what the West hailed as a great victory for democracy. Ironically, Yanukovych has used all the instruments of Ukrainian politics and democracy to undo Yushchenko's authority...
...meantime, Yanukovych reforged himself via his huge business interests and with the help of American political spinmeisters who played up the shortcomings of the Orange Revolution. In the March 2006 parliamentary elections, Yanukovych made a spectacular comeback, his party carrying 32% of the vote. The predominantly Russian-speaking Ukrainian East, alarmed by Yushchenko's pro-Western politices and the Russian threat of steep fuel price hikes, threw its support...
...Lonely Planet guide to the continent. But over the past decade, tourism to the region has trebled, according to the International Association of Antarctic Tour Operators. The marathoners aren't the only adventurous souls holidaying in the Antarctic summer. A geophysicist who leads a tour at Vernadsky, a Ukrainian station visited by the runners two days after their race, says his base receives a ship just about every day this time of year. Data from this research outpost (operated, at the time, by the British) helped scientists discover the hole in the ozone layer. Today, Vernadsky also boasts the planet...
...have thought. Enter the Guzik Foundation, a million-dollar scholarship program founded in Palo Alto, California by Russian-born industrialist Nahum Guzik. The foundation supports the artistic endeavors of a small group of talented musicians selected by competition. The best of these become Guzik Foundation Award Winners. This year, Ukrainian-born winners Dinara Nadzhafova and Ilya Petrov are coming to Sanders Theatre at Harvard as part of a tour covering major U.S cities, including Chicago, New York, Houston, and Miami. By the age of 10, when most of us were still learning how to add and subtract fractions, Nadzhafova...
...family of a prominent Ukrainian icon has donated to Harvard a collection of almost 900 maps thought to be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, the University announced this week. Bohdan Krawciw, who died in 1975, was an activist for Ukrainian independence, as well as a poet, translator, journalist, and to top it all off, a collector of maps of Ukraine. Marika L. Whaley, the publications manager at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI), described the collection as “monumental.” “I don’t know how this guy had the spare...