Ukraine: August 2007 Archives

With Ukraine’s parliamentary election just around the corner (September 30), I am going to make a series of posts covering different aspects of this event. Today, I want to take a look at Yulia Tymoshenko, the leader of the reformist Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.

If you are contemplating a trip to Ukraine, there are many issues to consider to make the trip as hassle-free as possible. The following is a brief list of items to think through during your preparations:

It has now been over a year since I wandered around the beauty and horror that is the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, and still I find it difficult to describe my feelings about what I saw. With all the talk about nuclear power these days, let's see if I can get past some of those issues and put into words what is locked away somewhere in my mind.