Author Archives: Chair of Ukrainian Studies
Dnipropetrovsk Diary: Summer School in the Heat
My first introduction to Ukraine was through a Summer School twenty years ago. It may not have been San Francisco’s Summer of Love, but Summer 1990 was when things first opened up in Ukraine. The Popular Front “Rukh” had been … Continue reading
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The Restructuration of the Political Opposition
The Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) just released its latest political rankings on its website, based on an all-Ukraine survey conducted on June 11-20. The Party of Regions is crushing the Tymoshenko Bloc 38.0% to 11.3%, with only the … Continue reading
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Language and Incentives – One Step Behind in Ukraine
If there is one thing that I have learned growing up in Quebec, it is that language politics never goes away. Forty-one years after language riots in the Montreal suburb of St-Leonard (over whether children of immigrants should be allowed … Continue reading
OUN-Bandera: An Open Debate With Whom?
My initial post “OUN-Bandera, the 1948 War in Israel, and the Utility of Open Debate” has inspired three replies that all raised the question of who should be included in such a debate. Borys Potapenko (UKL446, item 10) writes that … Continue reading
On Holodomor Denial
In the second issue of Holodomor Studies, librarian Jurij Dobczansky, in an article reproduced with permission in UKL445 (7 June 2010), writes that the Library of Congress has introduced, last Fall, the new categories of Holodomor denial literature (“for works … Continue reading
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Welcome to the Chair of Ukrainian Studies Blog
The Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Ottawa, the only research unit outside primarily devoted to the study of contemporary Ukraine, is inaugurating the Chair of Ukrainian Studies the Blog. The Blog will offer musings on ongoing developments … Continue reading
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OUN-Bandera, the 1948 War in Israel, and the Utility of Open Debate
The OUN-Bandera debate, sparked by Yushchenko’s decision to declare Stepan Bandera a “Hero of Ukraine” last January, has generated a passionate debate, reproduced in two recent issues of The Ukraine List (UKL441 and UKL442), the Chair of Ukrainian Studies electronic … Continue reading
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