The Ukrainian Week

1 August, 2013	Culture	Researching Complexity, Stupidity and Weakness Writer Marina Lewycka talks about Ukrainians in the UK, her writing and the modern era of dishonest people
6 March, 2013		The Toothless Hag The notion that a foreigner would want to learn Ukrainian is beyond the comprehension of the majority of Kyiv residents. Why waste your time? Why stop to such a level? After all, don’t you see that she’s a toothless hag!?!
16 November, 2012	Culture	Linguistic Insights into Ukrainian History Professor Kostiantyn Tyshchenko speaks about the role of modern linguistics in our identity and the rebuttal of the cradle-of-three-brotherly-peoples theory
31 July, 2012	Culture	The Vibrant Ukrainicum Greifswald University — a centre for Ukrainian studies in Europe
6 July, 2012	Politics	Parliament Gone Wild. Again The passing of the language law has triggered a parliamentary crisis that could explode into a political one.
19 June, 2012	Politics	Untied Opposition: Incompetence or Betrayal? The June 5th protests that accompanied the passing of a bill that aims to Russify Ukraine showed that while society is ready for radical resistance to the government’s anti-Ukrainian policies, opposition leaders are sitting on their hands.
19 June, 2012	Politics	Actions Speak Louder Than Words The mistakes made by the protectors of the Ukrainian language and how they can take the initiative into their own hands
15 June, 2012	Society	When Language Matters Slavist Yuri Shevchuk on conventional and new scenarios of assimilation, Russification and a pretense statehood
15 June, 2012	Society	Speaking up for Your Mother Tongue A number of Ukrainians successfully defend their language rights by using their knowledge of the law
5 June, 2012	Politics	Russification Redux? A confrontation over language legislation proposed by the ruling party is unfolding in Ukraine.
18 April, 2012		Why Ukrainian-Language Dubbing Rubs the Authorities the Wrong Way It can be argued that Ukrainian-dubbed foreign films and series have done much more to Ukrainise young people than didactic and patriotic admonitions to love the beautiful Ukrainian language.
18 April, 2012	Society	Being Yourself A firm choice of the language in which to speak allows people to shape their environment rather than be shaped by it
18 April, 2012	Society	Russification Via Bilingualism Under the current circumstances in Ukraine, most bilingual people ultimately become Russian-speakers
2 February, 2012	Society	How to Bring Up a Ukrainian-Speaking Child in a Russian-speaking or bilingual environment
2 February, 2012	Society	The Dark Side of Bilingualism: the Number of Official Languages Grows, But Problems Do Not Decrease Several official languages are an inefficient tool in solving language and national issues
12 January, 2012		Grand Master of Translation Raised in a peasant family, Hryhoriy Kochur was exceptionally talented and scaled the mountains of the European spirit
12 January, 2012	History	Hryhoriy Kochur: Unwavering Translator His translations span 26 centuries, three continents and almost 30 literatures. The Soviets “awarded” him with 10 years in labor camps and the status of a dissident with no right to travel
12 January, 2012	History	Children’s Literature: Lost in Translation? More books for children are translated into Ukrainian than written in the language. Families seem to prefer “popular” classics and books made into Hollywood films