Jennifer Anderson

A controversial Kharkiv court case involving accusations of anti-Semitism has been concluded, with the judge deciding in favor of the plaintiff. The Kharkiv Oblast Chapter of the All-Ukrainian Prosvita Society has been ordered by the court to cease publication of its newspaper, Dzhereltse, and...

After four months, a case involving accusations of anti-Semitism continues to drag on in a Kharkiv district court. The Association of National Cultural Unions of Ukraine is pressing charges against the Kharkiv oblast chapter of Prosvita for anti-Semitic and unconstitutional comments in its...

Recently more than one restaurant that you would be more likely to see on Main Street, USA than in Ukraine, has opened in Kharkiv. BASKIN ROBBINS With two Kharkiv locations. Baskin Robbins is one of these. And the bubble-gum colored furniture, friendly uniformed staff, 35 flavors of ice...

Last year the number of persons leaving Ukraine exceeded the number entering by 44,300. This, as the demographers say, negative migration balance is basically accounted for by the outflow of Ukrainian to the so-called far abroad, whither 48,400 Ukrainians emigrated — 11,500 to America and 13,200...

In Soviet times, works that were not passed by the censor for publishing were printed and read in any case. Manuscripts written within the Soviet Union were called samizdat (samvydav in Ukraine), meaning self-published, and those published abroad and smuggled into the country were called tamizdat...

Liudmyla Ivanivna thinks the Ukrainian government is trying to kill her. She points out her kitchen window to the 16 floor apartment building next door. It is in darkness. The elevator doesn’t work. Electric stoves and heaters don’t work. They don’t have any hot water. Still there are signs of...