The controversy caused by Georgia's Eurovision Song Contest entry seems to be over (or, depending on one's perspective, has reached its climax), now that Georgia has decided not to take part in this year's event in Moscow, following the European Broadcasting Union's demand that the l...

There's always something new at Steve Lasky's virtual Museum of Family History. Here's the March update: - “Churbn Lettland: The Destruction of the Jews of Latvia� – Very important telling of events, written in 1947 by a survivor. More material from the English... Continue reading here.......

This has been a pretty turbulent week in Ukraine: on Tuesday, the parliament fired Volodymyr Ohryzko, Ukraine’s foreign affairs minister, and on Wednesday, riot police stormed the Kyiv headquarters of Naftogaz, the Ukrainian national energy company. Ukrainiana wrote this about the foreign affairs ...

U.S. president Barack Obama is planning to visit Great Britain, France, Germany and the Czech Republic next month, during his first trip to Europe since taking office. In a post titled “They all want to meet him,” P O Neill of A Fistful of Euros writes this about the upcoming visit: An i...

Here follows a bit of demographic speculation. It’s guesswork right now, but we’ll know in a year or two if I’m right. Interesting Fact #1: birthrates tend to drop during recessions, and the drop tends to correlate with both the severity of the recession and the speed of its onset....

As if the "crisis" is not enough for Ukraine, the financial experts now are pointing to the fact that the country may go completely bankrupt. What this will mean for people living day to day in Ukraine is yet to be seen. I can say that the financial crisis is already hitting the country hard. There ...

This is an excerpt from my latest monthly newsletter. If you would like to be added to my newsletter list, please send your email address to mmkukraine@yahoo.com. (Above photo by Cheryl Nemazie, copyright 2008.) This photo is a year old but I wanted to use it to show the little boy in the front who ...

Further to Part 1, below I present eight sources of evidence that converge on the conclusion that the Germans exterminated the remaining Jews of Volhynia-Podolia during the period August-October 1942. Read more! 1) There were 326,000 Jews in the Volhynia-Podolia region in May 1942: NAW RG 238, T- 1 ...

There were 326,000 Jews in Volhynia-Podolia in May 1942 (Dean, p.195). There were 18,000 Jews in one of that region's largest cities, Brest, as of 28 Feb 1941 [Bundesarchiv Berlin R 94/6 Ernauhrungsamt Brest-Litowsk, Statistischer Bericht 28/2/42, cited by Browning, p.124]. These figures are quoted ...

Ok, call me sarcastic. I can handle the truth. :) :) Mel and I went for a walk to the city center on Monday. This is what we saw. All of these photos were taken on one corner. I know the direction is not quite accurate, but it's so hard to tell which way is west here (there are no mountains on the w...