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The Victory of Ukraine
Edit The New York Review of Books 22 Mar 2016
Roman Pilipey/Demotix/Corbis. Riot police retreating after trying to push back protesters near the Cabinet of Ministers building during the Maidan protests in Kiev, December 2013. In later years, there would be bigger demonstrations, more eloquent speakers, and more professional slogans ... At that time, after seventy years of slow Russification, only 40 percent of Ukrainians used their native language in everyday life ... They all said ... ....
Kazakh Fighters Refuse To Come Out Swinging In China
Edit Radio Free Europe 11 Mar 2016
When is a fight not a fight? . The answer, in a packed arena last week near Shanghai at least, is when two Kazakhs are a bout. ... The fight was scratched from the record by officials a few minutes later. ... He confirmed that ethnicity played a part. ... Kazakhs in Kazakhstan, meanwhile, also remember Soviet-era Russification policies that erased knowledge of the Kazakh language among Kazakhs in major cities. ....
Literature as last bastion: Natalka Sniadanko on suppression, solidarity and language in Ukraine
Edit The Guardian 11 Nov 2015
It was, nonetheless, the mass exterminations of Ukrainians, first and foremost of Ukrainian artists, that dealt the biggest blow to Ukrainian culture, along with forced Russification throughout the twentieth century and continuing into the twenty-first. With Russification, the Ukrainian language was reduced in the popular imagination to a “dialect” of Russian, unable to function on its own in the cultural sphere ... For now, at any rate ... ....
Russia is the king of Arctic oil
Edit Business Insider 24 Oct 2015
The work by Omskneftekhimproekt mirrors that of several institutes, companies, and universities across the country, rallying around the call for import substitution ... any forced Russification of the upstream oil and gas industry), the country’s traditionally poor institutions and penchant for corruption will not be easily circumvented – not to mention the stark technical realities of reducing import dependence some 70 percent ... ....
Is Russia The King Of Arctic Oil By Default?
Edit Oil Price 22 Oct 2015
To be king implies preeminence, or lasting rule. In the Arctic, such oil and gas supremacy is still little more than a dream ... waters ... BP’s Northstar Island) ... any forced Russification of the upstream oil and gas industry), the country’s traditionally poor institutions and penchant for corruption will not be easily circumvented – not to mention the stark technical realities of reducing import dependence some 70 percent....
The Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands On the Looney Front, Part 5
Edit Huffington Post 18 Sep 2015
We arrive in Dutch Harbor on Unalaska, the main Aleutian island, in glorious sunshine, right on the dot - three days, 10 hours and 45 minutes after leaving Homer, even if a little rock'n'rolling sent Yours Truly rushing for the Dramamine during the night - twice ... Views on approaching Unalaska ... Unalaska is the name of both the main island and the town, a russification of the Unangan (Aleut) word Agunalaksh, meaning close the mainland ... ....
Finland and the Moomins: On troll patrol in a fairytale landscape
Edit The Independent 18 May 2015
What a joy to join Moominpappa, Moomintroll, Snorkmaiden, and Little My on their adventure from the beautiful simplicity of life under the stars in The Valley to the superficial, soul corrupting high-life on the Riviera ... I have always wanted to go there ... The Russification period was marked by lavish Russian dolls' houses, ornate furniture, candelabras and delicate pianos with porcelain families trussed up in starched lace ... --> ... ....
As Ukraine Murders Multiply, Who’s The Lead Suspect?
Edit The Daily Beast 05 May 2015
In the muddle of insurgency, assassinations, false flags, and military confusion, the right-wing Pravy Sektor’s Dmitry Yarosh is a key player ... Both Kalashnikov and Buzyan were overtly and, for many in Kiev and western Ukraine, disgracefully pro-Russian ... As a recent article in Deutsche Welle pointed out ... But we’ll get back to them in a minute ... His main goal is Ukraine’s de-Russification and the regaining of its national identity ... ....
Why Putin’s ‘Russification’ Campaign Against the Baltics Should Be Big News for Us
Edit Big News Network 30 Apr 2015
Washington policy-makers are overlooking a potentially serious foreign policy crisis. the mounting Russian pressure, economic, political and military, on the tiny but strategically located ... ....
Kharkiv's Derzhprom: Europe’s first skyscraper complex – a history of cities in 50 buildings, day 19
Edit The Guardian 20 Apr 2015
Opened in 1928, this underappreciated Soviet masterpiece was a precursor to brutalism – three decades before the term was coined ... Photograph ... Rockefeller Foundation. Owen Hatherley ... Having withstood numerous swings from Ukrainisation to Russification and back, Derzhprom stands both dynamic and still ... Having withstood numerous swings of local politics from Ukrainisation to Russification and back, it stands both dynamic and still ... Show 25....
Tallinn Russian Church
Edit Topix 03 Apr 2015
The imposing and colorful facade of the Russian Orthodox Church on a hill overlooking the picturesque Estonian capital city of Tallinn. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral was built in the late 1800's and was so disliked as a symbol of the Russification of Estonia, by the oppressed Estonians that it was scheduled for demolition in 1924 after the Russians left. ....
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