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Ukraine’s Orange Revolution Suffering a Case of the Blues
Two years after the peaceful protests that shone a spotlight on the falsified presidential elections and eventually ushered in the pro-democratic, pro-Western government of Viktor Yushchenko, Ukrainians are in a political funk. Disappointment and disillusionment with both the revolution’s opponents and the current leadership has soured the once buoyant mood.
FeaturesEuropean Union Membership
Amidst the region of the world once behind an Iron Curtain, a race to join Europe’s elite union is heating up, and while Poland may have been one of the first countries to be embraced by the European Union, quickly followed by Bulgaria and Romania, but one country, Ukraine, is turning the heads of European Union leaders since the heady days of the Orange Revolution in 2004.
Featuresthe Future of Ukrainian Education
Two world wars drove many to America as did years of Soviet domination, yet, as the history unfolds Ukrainian-Americans remained fiercely committed to their Motherland. These days, Ukrainians on the streets of Chicago and Philadelphia, New York and Detroit are enjoying the early flush of their Motherland’s independence from afar, and raising money for the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy (NUKMA) to educate the next generation of Ukraine’s leaders.
FeaturesA Giant Easter Egg Is Just One Attraction Kolomiya Has To Offer
Towering ducks, coffee pots, Paul Bunyan, mini-Stonehenge monuments made of refrigerator doors, bovines and 12-story apples may dot the roadside’s of America, and while the town of Vegreville in Alberta, Canada boasts a 26 foot long and 18 foot wide pyanka Easter egg that spins like a weather vane and was constructed in the 1970s to honor the centennial year of the Mounties, the Ukrainian town of Kolomiya wins the prize for the prize for turning a roadside structure into a museum.
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