Ukraine

  • Classical Ukraine?

    As events evolved over the past week in Ukraine and environs, there was an interesting item in BBC’s Magazine Monitor section, which included comments from Dame Averil Cameron and Charlotte Roueche: In an extraordinary ceremony in Ukraine, potential cabinet members are to be paraded in front of crowds of protesters to seek their approval, it’s…

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  • This is presumably a followup to the reports from last week adding the Tauric Chersonese to the list of UNESCO Heritage sites. I’m hoping some newspaper will pick this up and have a reporter ask more questions, but nothing doing … from EurekAlert: Chersonesos is an ancient city on the Crimean peninsula, which was founded…

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