On a recent afternoon at a small house in the outskirts of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, five men and a priest gathered in front of a makeshift altar draped with a rainbow flag. Amid the smell of incense, the service began with a prayer about St. Cornelius. Then the priest, Roman Zuyev, handed out
With the Euro-2012 being little more than a year away, Ukraine has finally began to think about the country’s image, symbols, logos, and slogans. Naturally, things like this are not done overnight and creating a country’s brand requires a joint effort of marketing experts, managers, and stat
Ukrainian sociologists are outraged by irresponsible statements by their colleagues Yevhen Golovakha about possible legalization of same sex marriages in Ukraine. On the beginning of January 2011 Mr. Golovakha in interview to Krayina-Weekly said: — Ukrainians now respond calmer to homosexual
Twenty-five countries showed significant declines in democracy in 2010 with little serious resistance from the democratic world, the watchdog group Freedom House reported Thursday. It was the fifth consecutive year that Freedom House has reported a decline in political rights and civil liberties
After the Orange Revolution many Ukrainian gay boys hoped that the political changes taking place in their country would promptly lead to EU membership talks. At the very least they expected that the pro-Western course proclaimed by the Yushchenko administration would see Ukraine move towards Europe
The Armed Forces of Ukraine celebrated this year’s anniversary with a blast, literally. On December 6 in nine cities of Ukraine: in the hero-cities of Kyiv, Kerch, Odesa, and Sevastopol, as well as in Dnipropetrovsk, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Lviv and Rivne, festive fireworks and salutes (20 salvos) we
Deputy Prime Minister Serhii Tihipko, in charge of economic reforms ex officio, has aroused scathing criticism by saying that “you should not listen to ordinary people, as far as economic reforms are concerned” and “a nationwide debate on the Tax Code is a load of bull.” Soviet peasants h
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