Mykyta Kasianenko

KaZantip-2009, a forum of youth culture, was held in the Crimea for the 17th time. Its organizers introduced numerous novelties this year and yet there is an opinion that KaZantip-2009 was not nearly as good as it was, with the turnout rate dropping by 30 percent from last year’s level. The world...

Even before Russia’s large-scope military exercise Caucasus ‘09 many people had serious worries, expressed sensational forecasts, and drew parallels with last year’s events. Shortly before the end of Caucasus ‘08 the five-day war between Russia and Georgia broke out, whereupon Russian annexed South...

Early in the morning on June 30 some members of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists publicly vandalized the statue of Lenin in downtown Kyiv. This event caused much more stir in the media than, say, similar destructions in Luhansk oblast, Sumy, and other regions of Ukraine. At the same time,...

There is an organization named League of Nature Friends in Tokmak district, Zaporizhia oblast. The league’s president Serhii Ivko, who came up with the project “Clean Backwater Is Clean River”, which helped remove three unauthorized garbage dumps in the river Kurkulak’s backwater, has won the...

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has tackled the problems faced by peasants. She has held what she described as the “most important meeting in her life,” having gathered in Kyiv the heads of village councils to discuss socioeconomic issues they are facing. In her speech the premier voiced several...

SIMFEROPOL — The First World Congress of the Crimean Tatars (WCCT) ended after the delegates from 162 ethnic organizations in 12 countries adopted a declaration establishing the congress’ status as an international organization and elected Refat Chubarov ( ubarov) President of the Congress. Mustafa...

SIMFEROPOL—Artek, an international children recreation center , has long had a chronic fever. Nearly every spring Russian media filled the informational space with “news” of its demise, and every time media people crowded Gurzuf and sent back increasingly pessimistic reports. Yet every year, with...

In the past year the Crimea ranked among the top Ukrainian regions for implementing family practice with its 156 institutions of family practice, some 280 general practitioners, and over 300 paramedics. The implementation of the new healthcare system was made possible owing to the international...

The Crimean Academic Ukrainian Mu­sic Theater premiered the play Stalin’s Iti­nerary, which is dedicated to the history of the Holodomor. “This play is about a tragic page in our history. We are not holding any events in this connection and no one has helped us in this cause in any way. We have...

On Oct. 31, 2008, a number of Internet publications reported that on Oct. 25 the European Congress of Subcarpathian Ruthenians in Mukachiv proclaimed the Subcarpathian Ruthenian Republic. The congress was attended by 109 people, and its “international” status was secured by the presence of a single...