Tag Archives: Ukraine
“Ukraine and its glory has not died yet, nor her freedom…”
[I wrote and posted this 10 years ago. It’s time to post it again. PLEASE NOTE THAT TODAY’S LEADERSHIP IN UKRAINE IS NOT THE SAME AS TEN YEARS AGO] The title of this article is from the first line of … Continue reading
Posted in Demography, Geography, Government & Politics, History
Tagged Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Kiev, Nalyvaiko, Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, Yulia Tymoshenko, Yuri Lutsenko, Zalizniak
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Letter from Poland
I recently visited Kraków, Poland, with nine of my writing colleagues, for a ‘writing retreat’ and some minor tourism. We arrived 10 November, the day before an important national holiday, National Independence Day… … a national day in Poland celebrated … Continue reading
Posted in History, War & Peace
Tagged Communism, Habsburg Empire, Jakub Wydrzynski, Judaism, Kingdom of Prussia, Kraków, Lublin, Massolit Bookstore, Poland, Russian Empire, Ukraine, Warsaw
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