{"id":7234,"date":"2014-01-25T07:57:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T12:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=7234"},"modified":"2014-01-25T07:59:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T12:59:44","slug":"ukrainian-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2014\/01\/25\/ukrainian-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian update"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Regular readers will know of my interest in Ukraine, where I lived for a year as a Canada-USSR Scholar in 1989-90, and where I’ve visited at least ten times since, for varying lengths of time.<\/p>\n

I’ve been following events unfolding there from afar, and have begun a blog called UKR-TAZ: A Ukrainian Autonomous Zone<\/a>, which collects statements by Ukrainian writers, scholars, and cultural leaders on the revolution (which is what it should be called, at this point).<\/p>\n

The following is a pretty good summary of important facts about the revolution. It’s a complex situation, so there’s always a risk of oversimplification. But this is a very good start.<\/p>\n

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What is really happening in Ukraine<\/a> <\/strong> from Nazar Bartosik<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n

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Regular readers will know of my interest in Ukraine, where I lived for a year as a Canada-USSR Scholar in 1989-90, and where I’ve visited at least ten times since, for varying lengths of time. I’ve been following events unfolding there from afar, and have begun a blog called UKR-TAZ: A Ukrainian Autonomous Zone, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[123663,216,16902],"class_list":["post-7234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-politics","tag-revolution","tag-ukraine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-1SG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7095,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2013\/12\/12\/the-groundlessness-of-revolution\/","url_meta":{"origin":7234,"position":0},"title":"The groundlessness of revolution","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"December 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Every violent suppression of dissent is violence against the humanity that is being born. 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