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It is kind of nice when the biggest event on the planet is brought to your doorstep – in my case literally.

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EBRD’s own Andriy Maksymovych brought the Olympic torch to work to let people have their picture taken with it and to raise some money for charity. He raised about £1000 for Marusia, a Ukrainian girl with cancer currently treated in London (more at http://www.mfa.gov.ua/uk) Hundreds of bankers queued for hours! He plans other events with the torch in London, to raise money for equipment for Ukrainian children’s hospital – I will announce when more details are known.

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Olympics in Tower Hamlets smells of rotten fish and fresh manure. Fish smell greets me every morning as I walk to Whitechapel tube; but manure is something new. If I wasn’t in a rush, I’d look around for signs that police horses had been there earlier in the morning.

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A conversation about Ukrainian publishing, the future of books and BBC book of the Year http://www.voanews.com/ukrainian/news/ukraine/Pyrkalo-10-10-2011-131470448.htmlC

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Please tell your friends in Harvard, New York and Cincinnati or near about this unique opportunity to come and hang out!

I am speaking in the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute about the language and media in today’s Ukraine on Friday, 14 October 2011, 1 pm. See link for details.http://www.huri.harvard.edu/calendar.html#2011_10_14

I will discuss: why the media speak the language they speak? Why did Ukrainian literature take off in Ukraine, and Russian did not?

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ukrainian/pyrkalo/

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/ukrainian/news/cluster/2008/10/080924_bbcbookoftheyear_cluster_sp.shtml

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dear slang lover in the usa:

i’m not sure the dictionary of ukrainian youth slang is still on sale even in ukraine. it has been quoted in lesya stavytska’s dictionaries of zhargon and nezensurna leksyka, which you can buy in kyiv. if you are researching the subject, please reply here with your email address (i will keep it off the site), and i will write back.

Бі-Бі-Сі: Героїня вашого роману має цікаві стосунки з батьком. Які у вас були стосунки з батьком?

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Рецензія О. Смаля в *Дзеркалі тижня*

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