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Upcoming Ukrainian Events at Columbia

2009-11-12T03:24:42Z

Upcoming Ukrainian Events at Columbia Monday, November 16, 2009
Harriman Institute's Ambassadors' Forum
CHALLENGES FOR UKRAINIAN FOREIGN POLICY
a talk to be given by
H.E. Oleh Shamshur, Ambassador of Ukraine to the USA
Room 1512 International Affairs Building
2PM
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The Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University is proud to co-present the screening "The Living"

2009-11-11T18:01:52Z

The Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University is proud to
co-present
the screening The Living, at the 33rd Annual Margaret Mead Film & Video
Festival, November 12-15! All screenings are held at the American Museum of
Natural History.
*The Living (Zhyvi)
Serhiy Bukovsky
2008 . 75 min . France, Ukraine U.S. Premiere

Fwd: November 20, 2009 - Conference - THE ORANGE REVOLUTION: FIVE YEARS SINCE

2009-11-05T04:28:19Z

The Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University
invites you to the conference
THE ORANGE REVOLUTION: FIVE YEARS SINCE
When: November 20, 2009.
Where: International Affairs Building, Room 1512
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
10:00 AM
Introduction: Timothy Frye
10:15 AM-12:00 PM
Panel 1 UKRAINE AFTER THE ORANGE REVOLUTION

Memoirs of Stella Krenzbach – «I Am Alive Thanks to the UPA». English translation

2009-10-26T01:16:54Z

From the blog of Moses Fishbein mosesfishbein.blogspot.com
*I Am Alive Thanks to the UPA*
*By Dr. Stella Krenzbach*
[Originally published in *V Riadakh UPA: Zbirka Spomyniv buv. Voiakiv
Ukrainskoi Povstanskoi Armii* (In the Ranks of the UPA: A Collection of
Memoirs by Form[er] Soldiers of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army), ed. by Dr.

ROBERT L. BERNSTEIN: "Human Rights Watch has lost critical perspective ..."

2009-10-23T15:01:20Z

On October 20,2009 the New York Times published an articale by Robert
L. Bernstein, the former president and chief executive of Random
House, who was the chairman of Human Rights Watch from 1978 to 1998.

October 20, 2009
Op-Ed Contributor

Rights Watchdog, Lost in the Mideast
By ROBERT L. BERNSTEIN

Fwd: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Conference - POLTAVA 1709

2009-10-23T01:10:23Z

The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute is pleased to announce a
Two-Day International Conference,
POLTAVA 1709: REVISITING A TURNING
POINT IN EUROPEAN HISTORY.
The Conference will be held
Tuesday, November 10 and Wednesday, November 11 on the Harvard campus.
The academic community and the general public are invited to attend..

GOLDSTONE REPORT' UPDATE

2009-10-23T01:06:28Z

*From:* Julian RAPAPORT
*Subject:* Fw: 'GOLDSTONE REPORT' UPDATE: Protest New UN Anti-Israel
Campaign
To: "Julian Rapaport" <jul...@yahoo.com>
UPDATE:
- *BREAKING NEWS: Just Confirmed *- UN Human Rights Council convening
Special Session on 'Goldstone Report' Thursday in Geneva - the 6th time

he 2009 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought

2009-10-23T01:00:43Z

The 2009 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought was rewarded by European
Parliament to the Russian Human Rights organizations "Memorial"
[link]
-- Respectfully,
Andrey Blinushov
------------- Portal "Human Rights in Russia" (HRO.org) / Мемориал-Рязань /
The Russian magazine "Karta"

Fwd: Lecture on Gogol - Tuesday Oct 13th 12PM

2009-10-12T23:15:50Z

The Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute invites you to a
lecture entitled
GOGOL AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES: THE PRICE OF ADMISSION TO RUSSIAN CULTURE
The lecture will be delivered by
DR. EDYTA BOJANOWSKA (Rutgers University)
Author of Nikolai Gogol: Between Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism (Harvard

Fwd: Vasyl Makhno Book Presentation at Shevchenko Scientific Society

2009-10-12T23:11:03Z

Saturday, October 24
The Shevchenko Scientific Society invites all to a presentation of the
bilingual (Ukrainian-English) book of poetry by
Vasyl Makhno
titled
"THREAD and Selected New York Poems"
(New York, Spuyten Duyvil, 2009).
In the book, the Ukrainian originals are by Vasyl Makhno and their English

Fwd: Ukrainian Studies Program - Upcoming Events

2009-10-12T23:09:24Z

GOGOL AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES: THE PRICE OF ADMISSION TO RUSSIAN CULTURE
A lecture by Dr. Edyta Bojanowska (Rutgers University)
Author of NIKOLAI GOGOL: BETWEEN UKRAINIAN AND RUSSIAN NATIONALISM (Harvard
University Press, 2007)
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
12PM
Rm. 1219 International Affairs Building
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Re: A. Podrabinek is under a direct threat from the Kremlin.

2009-10-06T03:41:14Z

FREEDOM TO WRITE, FREEDOM TO LIVE FOR SASHA PODRABINEK

Russia’s independent journalist, human rights activist and Soviet-time
political prisoner Alexander (Sasha) PODRABINEK is receiving death
threats after publishing an article in the internet edition [link].
Pro-government youth gangs raided a newspaper he writes for and are

Re: Halya Coynash: "Kyiv hotels and questions not asked"

2009-09-29T02:31:41Z

Babi Yar: In Remembrance

On 28 September 1941 a notice was posted by the Nazis all over Kyiv
ordering Jews to assemble at Lukianovska, Degtiarska, Lagerna and
Melnikova St. at 8 a.m. on Monday 29 September. They were forced to
march to the Jewish Cemetery near the Babi Yar Ravine. “The entire

Halya Coynash: "Kyiv hotels and questions not asked"

2009-09-29T00:59:10Z

Kyiv hotels and questions not asked
For brilliant execution of a special task codenamed “Reputation caput”, any
special agent could expect at very least a reward. It would be a staggering
success, after all, with leading western media outlets providing coverage of
Ukraine’s latest scandal. This is, of course, the mere suggestion that a

A. Podrabinek is under a direct threat from the Kremlin.

2009-09-28T19:00:24Z

Dear colleagues,
As you can see from the attached, our friend and Soviet-time political
prisoner Sasha Podrabinek is in a real danger after publishing an article
in the internet edition [link] He is under a direct threat from the
Kremlin. Yet another case, like Politkovskaya and Estimirova, is obviously