Domestic novel by Zabuzhko will be published in English
The world’s biggest online retailer, Amazon.com, has become interested in the creative activity of the famous Ukrainian writer Oksana Zabuzhko, and will publish her novel Field Work in Ukrainian Sex in English, reports UNIAN. The novel will be published in both paper and electronic versions, the latter is specially formatted for reading on the Kindle device. The paper version will be distributed in all big stores of fiction in English. The list of the books also includes the novels Daughter of a Hanged Man by Oliver Potch, Limit of Absolute Power by Martin Revedrado, Old Town by Lin Zhe, Pizzicato: The Theft of a Magic Violin by Rusalka Rekh, and Pepita Jimenez by Juan Valera.
Within the framework of its publishing program, Amazon publishes landmark works that were unknown to the English language readers.
As it is known, Field Work in Ukrainian Sex is the most famous and commercially successful novel by Zabuzhko. Last December the writer presented her new novel The Museum of Abandoned Secrets to readers. She had worked on it for seven years.
In May 2010 the audio book Oksana Zabuzhko Reads Her Poems was released, it includes selected poems from the collection The Second Try, recited by the writer.
Georgia accuses Russia of moving the border
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia accused the Federal Security Service of Russia of conducting illegal delimitation activity in the Gori district of Georgia. As the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia stated, illegal demarcation activities took place in the villages of Arbo, Kordi, Ditsi, Kvemo Nikozi, and Zemo Nikozi in the Gori district. “At present 25 hectares of agricultural lands were seized in the village of Kvemo Nikozi,” the ministry reported. It further claimed that the houses of three families and half a garden of one family, as well as pastures, an irrigation channel, and a recently drilled borehole were left behind the new borderline in the village of Ditsi after the illegal border demarcation. In the village of Arbo, Russian troops increased the area under their control by five hectares of agricultural lands, and in the village of Kordi — by half a hectare. According to the Georgian government, at present illegal demarcation is also taking place in the village of Zemo Nikozi.
Healthcare problems in Ukraine
To encourage people to pay more attention to their health, the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS), in collaboration with experts in the medical sphere, initiated a large-scope study aimed at determining the degree to which Ukrainians really care about their health. As part of this project, KIIS polled a thousand persons between August 20 and September 3, 2010, in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Donetsk, and Lviv. Volodymyr Martsynovsky, a partner of the project “Certain Aspects of Health in Ukraine,” made an announcement to this effect at a press conference, reports IMK. He said that the situation is disastrous because most of the respondents confirmed that they had an unhealthy lifestyle, that they were having health problems, yet didn’t believe the situation was serious. “Our study shows that 88 percent of Ukrainians have various health problems, and that only 29 percent, residents of big cities, consider this to be a problem. Only 57 percent of the respondents believed it was necessary to cleanse and improve their bodies, and most of them didn’t know the most effective methods. A mere 12 percent of our nation have a clean bill of health!”
