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Sometime next year, opposition to Belarussian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka will burst out onto the streets in Ukrainian-style mass protests. At least, that's what Alyaksandr Milinkevich predicts - and he plans to lead the demonstrations against Lukashenka, who presides over what U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls Europe's "last true dictatorship." But first, Milinkevich will challenge Lukashenka in the presidential elections next July. "The situation here is somewhat different [from Ukraine], but the scenarios are similar everywhere when it comes to dictatorships," he told Time. "Dictatorial regimes never admit defeat." If the President is running scared, it doesn...
...saying has it, the one-eyed man is king. In a country intimidated into silence, a signer for the deaf was among the first to speak out. Not that Natalya Dmitruk, 48, planned it that way in the fall of 2004, when she worked as a signer for the Ukrainian state-run television station UT-1. The runoff for the presidential elections had just taken place, and the tightly controlled TV broadcasters were reporting that outgoing President Leonid Kuchma's favored candidate, Viktor Yanukovych, had beaten challenger Viktor Yushchenko. But evidence was mounting that the vote was rigged...
...grandma's false teeth, a dollar bill, even dirt from ground that is somehow hallowed in family memory. All this stuff he seals in plastic Baggies and pins to a wall in his room. One of his most prized possessions is a photograph of his grandfather with a Ukrainian woman who, according to family legend, saved his life during World War II. In Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan journeys to the Ukraine to discover her fate...
...celebrate it. In Aric Avelino's American Gun, a film shown at the Toronto Film Festival last week, the gun is seen as a virtual urban plague that ends young lives, sunders families and turns schools into maximum-security prisons. Andrew Niccol's Lord of War imagines that a Ukrainian-American named Yuri (Nicolas Cage) could rise through the arms-dealing underworld, Scarface-style, spreading the virulence around the globe. There's "one firearm for every 12 people on the planet," Yuri says. "The only question is, How do we arm the other...
...extraordinary two-week-long synod now meeting in Rome to review the work of Vatican II, collegiality was clearly on the minds of many of the 161 delegates. Indeed, one of the most radical proposals to emerge last week came from Archbishop Maxim Hermaniuk, spiritual leader of Ukrainian Rite Catholics in Canada. To carry out Vatican II's teaching on collegiality, declared Hermaniuk, there should be a permanent synod, sitting in Rome as an ongoing body, empowered to act "in the name of the entire college of bishops." This group, said Hermaniuk, would acquire "legislative power to decide with...